Divine Idea by Fabian Kruse
Posted: 29 June 2011 Filed under: #Trust30 Leave a comment »Imitation is Suicide. Insist on yourself; never imitate. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write down in which areas of your life you have to overcome these suicidal tendencies of imitation, and how you can transform them into a newborn you – one that doesn’t hide its uniqueness, but thrives on it. There is a “divine idea which each of us represents” – which is yours?
(Author: Fabian Kruse)
I think my problem is less about imitation and more about comparison. It’s not that I do what others are doing, it’s that I compare myself to others. I have an almost compulsive need to compete, to win, to be better…and to beat myself up when I don’t feel that I am the best at anything. While I don’t think that achievement is a bad thing, I think that the need to compare can be deadly for creativity, for sanity, even for well-being. I know that I have my own “spark of creation” that brings forth words and voice and intellect that are all my own…I just have to embrace what is mine and stop worrying about everyone else.
Your Personal Message by Eric Handler
Posted: 28 June 2011 Filed under: #Trust30 Leave a comment »To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is burning deep inside of you? If you could spread your personal message RIGHT NOW to 1 million people, what would you say?
(Author: Eric Handler)
The solution is out there…the solution is love instead of hate, understanding instead of judgment, peace instead of war. Every single person matters to every other person on this planet – the butterfly effect is real – meditation and prayer do matter – and no one can heal you if you don’t open your mind and your heart and let them. There is no one true God, there are millions of visions of God for millions of people, but they all reflect the same one brilliant light that shines from the universe, from all of us, and from whatever God really is. Art does matter. Words are powerful. And when the world is crashing down around you – breathe deep, know that we are all in this together, and reach out with your energy for the help that the world around you can provide.
Five Years by Corbett Barr
Posted: 25 June 2011 Filed under: #Trust30 Leave a comment »There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
What would you say to the person you were five years ago? What will you say to the person you’ll be in five years?
(Author: Corbett Barr)
Five years ago…I was sadder, I think. Five years ago I had no idea where I was going…I thought I did, but really, I had no clue. Five years ago, Jen hadn’t had heart surgery. Five years ago…
Dear Five Years Ago,
It gets better. Debt gets paid down…slowly. Eventually you won’t have to live with roommates or in tiny boxes, just with Jen and in a place where you both can breathe. It gets harder before it gets easier, but keep breathing. You’ll figure it out.
Five years from now, I hope to be a therapist, a mother, a more grounded, centered person…who knows what will happen…
Dear Five Years From Now,
After wishing so hard for a baby, I hope that it’s everything you dreamed it would be. After years of struggling to fit a square peg in a round hole when it came to work, I hope that you’ve found your niche in the counseling world. Never stop learning. Keep breathing.
Dare to be bold by Matt Cheuvront
Posted: 13 June 2011 Filed under: #Trust30 Leave a comment »Our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion, we have not chosen, but society has chosen for us. We are parlour soldiers. We shun the rugged battle of fate, where strength is born. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Next to Resistance, rational thought is the artist or entrepreneurs worst enemy. Bad things happen when we employ rational thought, because rational thought comes from the ego. Instead, we want to work from the Self, that is, from instinct and intuition, from the unconscious.
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. Its only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.” - Steven Pressfield, Do the Work
The idea of “being realistic” holds all of us back. From starting a business or quitting a job to dating someone who may not be our type or moving to a new place – getting “real” often means putting your dreams on hold.
Today, let’s take a step away from rational thought and dare to be bold. What’s one thing you’ve always wanted to accomplish but have been afraid to pursue? Write it down. Also write down the obstacles in your way of reaching your goal. Finally, write down a tangible plan to overcome each obstacle.
The only thing left is to, you know, actually go make it happen. What are you waiting for?
(Author: Matt Cheuvront)
I want to write. Every day. I want to sing and dance in front of an audience again and not miss it so much that it aches. I want to spend one day not worrying about money because I really am finally out of debt. I want to go back to a church that makes me feel welcome and a community there that makes me feel held. And the thing standing in the way of all of these things is time and the ever present challenge of money. And I’m working on it. Slowly, slowly, chipping away at the lack of time and the lack of money that keep me from what I want. I’ll get there…
Come Alive by Jonathan Mead
Posted: 9 June 2011 Filed under: #Trust30 Leave a comment »Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you had one week left to live, would you still be doing what you’re doing now? In what areas of your life are you preparing to live? Take them off your To Do list and add them to a To Stop list. Resolve to only do what makes you come alive.
Bonus: How can your goals improve the present and not keep you in a perpetual “always something better” spiral?
(Author: Jonathan Mead)
Would I still be in classes – absolutely. I refuse to stop learning, becoming someone new each day and with each new piece of knowledge. Would I still be tutoring – hell, no, but I’m working toward the day when I can stop. Would I still be stage managing – no – and that’s a harder admission. I still love my kids, but I don’t still love this job, and I’m biding my time…and I hate biding my time. But I’m writing, right now, and every Monday this summer. And I’m singing – every moment that I can. And I’m working hard to get better at being me instead of getting by. And that’s what I can do right now.
Travel by Chris Guillebeau
Posted: 4 June 2011 Filed under: #Trust30 Leave a comment »If we live truly, we shall see truly. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not everyone wants to travel the world, but most people can identify at least one place in the world they’d like to visit before they die. Where is that place for you, and what will you do to make sure you get there?
(Author: Chris Guillebeau)
I think that I have seen very little of the world, so in some ways I think every place is a place that I want to go. But I’ve always felt drawn to St. Petersburg (Leningrad) from the time I was very young. There is something that pulls me inexplicably toward that city, and I don’t know what it is. The Celtic spirit in me seeks out Ireland and Wales, the pilgrim in me seeks out Spain and Portugal and Italy, but the deepest, most powerful draw has always been to St. Petersburg. I don’t know how I will get there, but I have faith that I will find a way and a reason to go.
Post-it Question by Jenny Blake
Posted: 3 June 2011 Filed under: #Trust30 Leave a comment »That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton? . . . Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too
much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Identify one of your biggest challenges at the moment (ie I don’t feel passionate about my work) and turn it into a question (ie How can I do work I’m passionate about?) Write it on a post-it and put it up on your bathroom mirror or the back of your front door. After 48-hours, journal what answers came up for you and be sure to evaluate them.
Bonus: tweet or blog a photo of your post-it.
(Author: Jenny Blake)
Why do I need someone else to tell me to write when it’s what I want to do anyway?
One Strong Belief by Buster Benson
Posted: 2 June 2011 Filed under: #Trust30 Leave a comment »It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
The world is powered by passionate people, powerful ideas, and fearless action. What’s one strong belief you possess that isn’t shared by your closest friends or family? What inspires this belief, and what have you done to actively live it?
(Author: Buster Benson)
It’s not so much one belief as a collection of beliefs. My spirituality is unique, and while it shares elements with various friends’ and loved ones’ beliefs, it is uniquely my own. It is a challenge because I miss the community that comes with being part of a group of believers united by one set of ideals, but I can’t find one community that embraces all that I believe.
Liz Danzico – Today
Posted: 1 June 2011 Filed under: #Trust30 Leave a comment »Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. The force of character is cumulative. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
If ‘the voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tracks,’ then it is more genuine to be present today than to recount yesterdays. How would you describe today using only one sentence? Tell today’s sentence to one other person. Repeat each day.
(Author: Liz Danzico)
I worry so much about what might happen that I sometimes forget about what is happening.
