Where You Are Shapes Your World

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‘We are all mirrors reflecting onto one another. The people with whom we surround ourselves shape us.’- Brad Stulberg

Negative people attract other negative people. They are good people, but they are not living like the rest of us. They don’t think like the rest of us. They don’t work like the rest of us. They don’t even believe like the rest of us. And they are not supposed to. Because we are different.

When you are with a negative person, you will struggle to stay alive. Because you are not there. You are not present. You are in your own world. You are trying to make sense of what the person is talking about.

The best way to keep yourself safe, to save your energy, is to focus on the good side of things. It is to focus on what is going well for you. It is to focus on what the Lord has done for you.

Instead of complaining about things, you have what it takes to make things better. You are alive. Yes, you are still here.

You are alive for a reason. God is not joking with you! The fact that you are still here, it is enough to keep you going. If that is not enough, I don’t know what will.

How To Thrive In A Changing World

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Change is not going anywhere. If you want to change yourself, you must not resist change.

Greatness comes to those who keep moving forward, figuring out what works, driving down More’s Law….’

‘Continually question and challenge your recipe, but change it rarely.

‘Test equipment in real conditions, sub-zero freezer and simulation trips before the actual expedition.’

‘Resilience, not luck, is the signature of greatness.’

‘Luck favors the persistent, but you can persist only if you survive.’

Luck is not a strategy, but getting a positive return on luck is.’

A single stroke of luck, no matter how big the break, cannot by itself make a great company.’

‘In selecting teammates, choose people to get stranded with.’

Have two separate team, climbers and filmmakers, that work well together on the mountain.’

‘Never let a weak member attempt to summit. ‘A team is only as strong as its weakest member.’

Source:

Jim Collins (2011). Great By Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck- Why Some Thrive Despite Them All