Words of Wisdoms: 12 Life Lessons That Foster Growth 🪴
Words of Wisdoms: 12 Life Lessons That Foster Growth 🪴
Issue #46: 12 Timeless Pieces of Life Advice, Mac keyboard shortcuts for 5x productivity, Keep the schedule but reduce the scope.
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💡 Here are 3-tips to help you learn, grow, and be inspired this week!
Learn: 12 life lessons that foster growth.
Growth Tip: My favorite Mac keyboard shortcuts.
Inspiration: Keep the schedule but reduce the scope.
⏱️ Reading time: ~3 mins
🎓 Learn
Words have the power to inspire, challenge, and transform us.
Throughout my years of reading, I've come across countless bite-sized pieces of life advice from people I admire.
Today, I want to share with you 12 of these timeless gems that continue to resonate with me.
Kevin Kelly:
#1 Speak confidently as if you are right, but listen carefully as if you are wrong
Simple but a profound flip.
Listening with care and compassion is an act of love!
Open your ears and heart, and let your words reflect your confidence.
#2 When you lead, your real job is to create more leaders, not more followers
As a leader, your role is to empower others to become leaders themselves.
Teach, share, and write to foster growth in those around you.
#3 Your growth as a conscious being is measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations you are willing to have
No one likes uncomfortable conversations.
Growth happens outside of your comfort zone.
Engage in those difficult conversations that push you to expand your perspectives.
Ali Abdaal:
#4 The Sting of Rejection is better than the pain of regret
Rejection may be painful, but it offers closure and the opportunity to move forward.
Regret, on the other hand, lingers forever.
Choose growth over stagnation.
Corey Wilks:
#5 It’s easier to maintain good health than achieve it
Health is a long-term game.
Please don’t make it a goal; instead, make it a daily habit to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
#6 Where you’ve been doesn’t dictate where you’re going
Release the weight of your past mistakes.
Each day presents an opportunity to learn, grow, and evolve.
Focus on the path ahead.
Write the failures in the sand and carves the lessons on the stone.
#7 When you’re angry, don’t say that thing you really want to say
Winning an argument may seem tempting, but it often comes at the cost of losing a valuable connection.
Practice restraint in heated moments.
Alex Guzey:
#8 Let people tell you “no”. Don’t make decisions for them
None of us is a mind reader.
Don’t assume things on behalf of others.
Seek clarity.
#9 Working on the hardest problems requires an incredible amount of courage
It will be challenging.
There will be surprises.
Acknowledge & embrace fear.
Sahil Bloom:
#10 Never think twice about investments in yourself
This includes:
Books
Self-care
Fitness
Mental health
Personal development
Enriching experiences
These investments pay dividends for a long time and are almost always worth making.
#11 Most people don’t actually care about you
The Spotlight Effect says that we overestimate the degree to which other people are noticing or observing our appearance or actions.
Basically, we think people care about us WAY MORE than they actually do.
#12 Your habits put you in a position where luck is more likely to strike
Much of what we call "luck" is the macro result of 1,000s of micro-actions.
Take daily action.
Built the right habits.
Engineer your luck!
Key takeaway: Let these powerful pieces of advice guide you on your journey of growth and transformation. Embrace their wisdom and unlock the true potential within you.
🚀 Growth Tip
In this Twitter thread, I shared 5 lesser-known Mac keyboard shortcuts. If you learn and use it daily, it will improve your speed and productivity 5x.
They are my favorite keyboard shortcuts.
https://twitter.com/guptaanilg/status/1623701561326149635
🤩 Inspiration
Once you schedule or commit time to a habit, but at the moment, you don’t feel like doing it. Instead of skipping, try to take a small action.
Example: You don’t feel like doing 20 pushups. Just do 2!
👋 Anil
May the growth be with you! 🪴
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