life

#1 Are you proud of the choices you are making at home? #2 Are you proud of the choices you are making at work? Connie Podesta (via Two Questions You Should Ask Yourself Every Morning )

Eliminate an old activity before you add a new one. Greg McKeown (in The Disciplined Pursuit of Less – Harvard Business Review ) This simple rule ensures that you don’t add an activity that is less valuable than something you are already doing.

If you’re lost and alone Or you’re sinking like a stone Carry on May your past be the sound Of your feet upon the ground Carry on Fun. (in “Carry On”, Some Nights )

Instead of asking, “How much do I value this item?” we should ask “If I did not own this item, how much would I pay to obtain it?” Greg McKeown (in The Disciplined Pursuit of Less – Harvard Business Review ) … and the same goes for career opportunities, business projects, etc.

You Are Boring — The Magazine Here are the three things they taught me. Listen, then ask a question Tell a story Expand your circles So true…

Don’t ignore your dreams; don’t work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy. Paul Graham On the palliative care Nurse post Regrets of the Dying

Pues la utopía sirve para eso, para caminar! Fernando Birri (via Eduardo Galeano )

nateweiner: “The entrepreneur’s dilemma: Maintaining friendships. Building a great company. Spending time w/family. Staying fit. Getting sleep. Pick 3.” @RandiZuckerberg 3 seems generous. Replace “getting sleep” with “eating” or any other body function and that part stops making much sense.

The life is unfair curve! (via A Show :: unfair ) ( Source: https://www.youtube.com/ )

Sleep Talkin’ Man My mild-mannered English husband Adam lives quite a colorful existence in his dreams. Having benefited from hours of delight at his dead-of-night musings, I thought it only fair to share them with the world.

think more, talk less (by Gabi Agu ) wisdom is one of the rarest commodities these days

“Most artists can’t draw.” — Roy Simmons But all artists can *see*! Seth Godin (in “The Linchpin”)

Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. (…) And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator Seth Godin (in “The Linchpin”)

À primeira cai quem não sabe, à segunda quem se esquece, à terceira quem merece! Hugo Ferreira (adapted)

O nosso corpo fala connosco. Se não ouves, ele GRITA! Ângela Coelho

If you’re not busy being born, you’re busy dying Bob Dylan

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. Steve Jobs ( Stanford commencement speech, June 2005 )

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on....

If you’re the smartest guy in the room, you’re in the wrong room. Fabien Lasserre ( @flhke ) on Twitter

It’s never too late to be who you might have been. George Eliot English novelist (1819 – 1880)