September 2012

Running from the grahamdbrown instagram feed

A quote from Nadine Stair:

“If I had my life to live over, I’d dare to make more mistakes next time. I’d relax, I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual troubles, but I’d have fewer imaginary ones.”

“You see, I’m one of those people who lived sensibly and sanely, hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I’ve had my moments, and if I had to do it over again, I’d have more of them. In fact, I’d try to have nothing else. Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day. I’ve been one of those persons who never goes anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat and a parachute. If I had to do it again, I would travel lighter than I have.”

“If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies.”

Si pudiera vivir nuevamente mi vida

En la próxima trataría de cometer más errores

No intentaría ser tan perfecto, me relajaría más

Sería más tonto de lo que he sido, de hecho

tomaría muy pocas cosas con seriedad

Sería menos higiénico

(Spanish Apocryphal version)

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Bike from the grahamdbrown instagram feed

“Hear me! In our future lives it will be hard to regain this precious human state with all its privileges and freedoms. The moment of our death is impossible to predict. Who can say? Perhaps we will die tonight” Shabkar

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1. Life doesn’t have to be so damn hard. It really doesn’t.
2. People don’t want to be millionaires. They want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.
3. Reality is negotiable.
4. Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
5. Options – the ability to choose – is real power.
6. Each path begins with the same first step: replacing assumptions.
7. Less is not laziness. Focus on being productive instead of busy.
8. If it’s important to you and you want to do it “eventually,” just do it and correct course along the way.
9. Ask for forgiveness, not permission.
10. Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.
11. Relative income is more important than absolute income.
12. Risks weren’t that scary once you took them.
13. Conquering fear = defining fear.
14. Define the worst case, accept it, and do it.
15. What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
16. Inaction is the greatest risk of all.
17. Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.
18. The opposite of happiness is boredom.
19. The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?”
20. Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now.
21. The most important actions are never comfortable.
22. Being busy is often guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
23. Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory.
24. What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
25. Find your inefficiencies to eliminate them and to find your strengths so you can multiply them.
26. Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
27. Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.
28. Identify the few critical task that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines.
29. Simplicity requires ruthlessness.
30. Ask yourself: “Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important?”
31. Increased output necessitates decreased input.
32. Practice the art of nonfinishing. Stopping something is often 10 times better than finishing it.
33. Learn to be difficult when it counts.
34. Do not work harder when the solution is working smarter.
35. People are smarter than you think. Give them a chance to prove themselves.
36. “No” should be your default answer to all requests.
37. Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
38. Eliminate before you delegate.
39. It is more profitable to be a big fish in a small pond than a small undefined fish in a big pond.
40. The so-called expert with the most credibility indicators is the one who will sell the most product, not the one with the most knowledge of a topic.
41. Don’t ask people if they would buy – ask them to buy.
42. Our goal isn’t to create a business that is as large as possible, but rather a business that bothers us as little as possible.
43. The biggest timesaver of all is customer filtering.
44. Those who spend the most complain the least.
45. Perceived size does matter.
46. It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
47. The new mantra is this: Work wherever and whenever you want, but get your work done.
48. Getting what you want often depends more on when you ask for it than how you ask for it.
49. Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
50. Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple – many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.
51. There are options. There are always options.
52. Fortune favors the bold.
53. Learn to slow down.
54. The biggest risk in life wasn’t making mistakes but regret: missing out on things.
55. For big questions, if you can’t define it or act upon it, forget it.
56. There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
57. Service is an attitude.
58. Slowing down doesn’t mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.
59. Recapturing the excitement of childhood isn’t impossible. In fact, it’s required.
60. Mistakes are the name of the game in lifestyle design.
61. Focus on great for a few things and good enough for the rest.
62. Happiness shared in the form of friendships and love is happiness multiplied.
63. Life is not a race. Do take it slower.

Source of quotes Lifeoptimizer based on Tim Ferriss’ 4 Hour Work Week

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The Daily Mail is a popular UK tabloid newspaper. Often berated for it’s obsession with celebrity, the Mail will (from time to time) print randomly awesome posts (like the one below):

Daily Mail: Daredevil photographers in Hawaii

Daily Mail: Daredevil Photographers in Hawaii

Which gets me thinking. On the same day it posted the above story about the Lava Photographers, it also printed this crap:

Daily Mail, Jessica Simpson at Gym

Same newspaper, different outlook.

So, how you populate the substance of your mind is entirely dependent on the sources you choose. I rarely watch TV for that reason. As Baz Luhrmann reminded us in Sunscreen from way back in the 90s:

“Don’t read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.”

Barefooting means making a conscious choice.

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