Good Quotes from What Matters Now

Here are a few good quotes from the book What Matters Now, thought were good enough to share, so here you go:

Be honest, be authentic, and speak from your passion. Yes, it means taking a risk. But the results might surprise you.

It’s not good enough anymore to be “pretty good” at everything. You have to be the most of something: the most elegant, the most colorful, the most responsive, the most accessible.

“There’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.”

e beautiful thing about being on a team is that, believe it or not, lots of people love doing the things you hate. And hate doing the things you love. So quit diligently developing your weaknesses. Instead, partner with someone very UNlike you, share the work and share the wealth and everyone’s happy.

e best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. e second best time is now.

If we want engagement, and the mediocritybusting results it produces, we have to make sure people have autonomy over the four most important aspects of their work:

• Task – What they do
• Time – When they do it
• Technique – How they do it
• Team – Whom they do it with.

Learn to adapt. Adjust your style of play as the dynamics of the game change.

e players with the most stamina and focus usually win.

Hope is not a good plan.

Stick to your principles.

FOCUSED INTENSITY over TIME multiplied by GOD equals Unstoppable Momentum.

Stop waiting around for bosses and companies to get better and complaining about how are you treated. Build the skills—and use them—that will permit you to create the environment in which you want to live.

Harmony takes bravery, an open heart. It takes lying awake at night when one of your co-workers is having a rough patch and dreaming up ways to help. In the true sense of karma, to achieve harmony, you must always do the right thing with no eye on a reward. e reward will come because there is trust on the other side.

e future belongs to people who can spread ideas.

We can all do more for each other and be better. Be compassionate to everyone no matter the level of connection.

Make compassion a core business value.

Start with a smile to a stranger.

Start by getting others to nod in agreement when you say: “If we’re not compassionate to one another, what’s the point in the end?”

e result of everything you do today will last forever.

When we are young, we learn, we socialize, we play, we experiment, we are curious, we feel wonder, we feel joy, we change, we grow, we imagine, we hope. In adulthood, we are serious, we produce, we focus, we fight, we protect and we believe in things strongly. It’s time we listen to children and allow neoteny to guide us beyond the rigid frameworks and dogma created by adults.

Adventure calls. Blaze a new trail. Cross a continent. Dare to discover. Escape the routine. Find a fresh perspective. Go slow; gaze absentmindedly and savor every moment. Have some fun! Invest now in future memories. Journeys are the midwives of thought; Keep a journal. Leave prejudice and narrow mindedness behind. Make for the horizon and meet new people. Navigate the unknown. Observe, and open your mind. Pursue a road less traveled. uest for truth. Rely on yourself. Sail away from the safe harbor; Take a risk. Unleash your curiosity. Venture further. Why wait? eXpect the unexpected. Say Yes to adventure….journey with Zeal!

We’re wired to focus on what’s not working. But “What IS working, today, and how can we do more of it?” You’re probably trying to change things at home or at work. Stop agonizing about what’s not working. Instead, ask yourself, “What’s working well, right now, and how can I do more of it?”

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[alyssa]

great stuff.