Three tenacity quotes, two from Nuwanda, one from e.e. cummings

Life's road blocks
Road blocks in life are meant to be figured out and conquered…
huge bridges
huge bridge over eight+ lanes of Interstate 4

 

To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.  – e. e. cummings

If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough. – Nuwanda

The long way is the short cut. – Nuwanda

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What’s the long term legacy of a leader?

Manhattan (top), Brooklyn (middle), Barclays Center (lower center-left “white “dot”)…

Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Barclays Center
Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Barclays Center

My friend Nuwanda travels as a professional speaker. A lot. He says this fact makes the world seem smaller.

He spent a week in Brooklyn (two weeks ago), and flying to Hartford last week, flew right over Brooklyn and snapped this photo.

Looking down from “Heaven” he thought, “What will we leave behind that others will be thankful for?”

He commented that we so rarely look at the sky.

And when in the sky, we so rarely look at the ground.

Why?

Because we are busy leading, managing, worrying, fixing, delighting, planning, hurrying… building a reputation… of some sort… one easy to see by someone watching.

By someone following in our footsteps.

And then he asked, “Do we ever look at the path we’re making?”

Will we look back and wonder, “Why did I spend so much time working? We now realize our children get only one childhood. One.”

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Should we, will we, are we… A catalyst for positive change?

a catalyst for positive change (photo: a friend)
a catalyst for positive change (photo: a friend)

Most of us want to help others more than we do. Yet our daily grind puts pressure on our valuable time. And distracts us.

Some lucky folks actually have it embedded in their job description.

Well, sort of, truth be told, few of us actually have it written in our job descriptions. The work-around?

Just need to put it there ourselves. Just do it!

We are hereby granted permission to re-write creatively.

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