Recruitthebest Daily Digest- Living Your Reality

If you don’t like your reality, don’t talk about it, do something about it. Because you created it. And you are the only one who can change it.

Be curious. Because ‘curiosity leads to adaptive responses. Certainty leads to death sentences- at least this is true for every other life form on this planet.’

Don’t do it alone. ‘When fearful people bond together, all the ingredients for strong community are present: a shared world view, a desire to support one another, a clear lens for interpreting information, and a collective self-image that they’re engaged in important work.’

There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.’

Nothing living lives alone and when we are in genuine relationships, an abundance of creativity and caring gives us the very capacities we need to solve our toughest problems together.’

We need to be in the world but not of it. We need to create places at work and in our communities that protect people from the destructive dynamics of this culture and reawaken their human spirits.’

We need leaders who recognize the harm being done to people and planet through the dominant practices that control, ignore, abuse, and oppress the human spirit. We need leaders who put service over self, stand steadfast in crises and failures, and who display unshakable faith that people can be generous, creative, and kind.’

Is your work still meaningful?’

Source:

Margaret J. Wheatley (2023). Who Do We Choose To Be? Facing Reality. Claiming Leadership. Restoring Sanity

Brad And Steve On How To Elevate Your Game

If you want to improve your life, you must first improve your performance.

The question is, according to Brad and Steve, ‘Is healthy, sustainable peak performance possible? If so, how? What’s the secret? What, if any, are the principles underlying great performance? How can people like us- which is to say, just about anyone-adopt them?’

‘The brightest minds spend their time either pursuing their activity with ferocious intensity, or engaging in complete restoration and recovery.’

What are you doing to get better? If you are doing something, then ask yourself, ‘Is it the right thing for this moment?

‘It isn’t experience that sets top performers apart but the amount of deliberate practice they put in. Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.’

Be intentional about your practice. If your practice is not right, do not expect to get better.

‘The way we think about the world has a profound effect on what we do in it.’

‘By pushing us toward just- manageable challenges and enhancing how we’ll respond to them, the right mindset opens up the possibility for growth to occur.’

Growth happens when you open up your mind to receive it. Because you will never receive what you are not expecting.

‘If we never take ‘easy’ periods, we are never able to go full throttle and the ‘hard’ periods end up being not that hard at all.’

‘Hard work only becomes smart and sustainable work when it’s supported by rest.’

‘It is hard to do your best thinking when your mind isn’t at peace.’

‘The things we work amidst become expansions of the self, things the mind can use to create harmony in experience.’

‘Is healthy, sustainable peak performance possible?

Source:

Brad Stulberg & Steve Magness (2017). Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with The New Science of Success