Tag: empathy

Intention

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There’s a difference between doing something because it’s what makes most sense, here and now, and doing the same thing because the opposite makes you feel sad, scared, uncomfortable.

Being with someone because you enjoy their company instead of being with someone because you dread being alone.

Being in a job because it’s what better serves your purpose instead of being in a job because you need to pay the bills.

Going out every evening because that’s how you feel you are contributing to your well being instead of going out every evening because that’s what everyone else does.

Intention is the difference. And we can all benefit from claiming some of it over our actions.

Communication tools

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It’s all great that companies have so many ways to communicate, share information, ask and answer questions nowadays. But as it’s often the case, new tools don’t fix old issues.

Like assuming that communication happened just because you have communicated something.

Like expecting an immediate answer to trivial or unimportant questions to placate your anxiety.

Like spreading information left and right with the hope that those who need it will get it and absorb it, while others will forget about it.

Communication is a skill and it needs old-fashioned training, not new tools.

Not forever

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No matter how it feels today, it won’t last forever.

No matter how it is today, it won’t last forever.

No matter how you think today, it won’t last forever.

It is, of course, worrying. But also, liberating.

All in all, a good thing to keep in mind.

The darkest hour

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Even in the darkest hour, there are things that keep you going.

Things that give you energy, that make you want to continue to try, that help you to not give up.

Even in the darkest hour, we need to be able to appreciate those things, name them, doble down on them.

That’s how we make the darkest hour a little less dark.

Breaking habits

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Breaking a habit feels bad.

And it’s true whether you are just getting started or you have been at it for years already.

It just feeds that little voice in your head that tells you that you are a failure, that you will never make it, that it was all just an illusion, and that the truth is you don’t deserve it.

Of course, the reality is that building a habit is difficult, keeping it alive is constant work, and never missing a beat is impossible.

To keep that little voice quiet, you need an extra effort to see the 61.

Yesterday I forgot to post on the blog, for the first time in almost four years.

Today, though it’s difficult, I want to focus on the 61.

Let’s go.