Tune Tuesday

• 11 Proven Rules for Success From a Former Navy SEAL

If you know WHY you’re in it, if your focus is on WHO you are trying to help, it will be hard to turn your back on them. Because it’s no longer just about you.

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. - Edna St. Vincent

With repetition, action tendencies become stronger. Feelings, however, become weaker with repetition. So, the more often you eat ice cream, the less pleasure you get from eating it. Philosophers refer to this as the difference between the "active" and "passive" components of habit. With repetition, our action tendencies get stronger but our feelings habituate and weaken.

It’s also a little scary. You’re putting your creative thoughts (and often your family and home) out there for open criticism. That doesn’t get less scary with time. Maybe it even gets a little worse. If you’ve been successful in the past, there’s that pressure to continue to produce—like any other job. And, if you’re already a perfectionist or a people-pleaser by nature, it can cause a lot of self-induced stress on top of it all.

Be outrageously and unreasonably positive.  Be funny and creative and ridiculous and joyful all at the same time.  Smile as often as possible.  A smile actually changes the vibe of your body.  It alters, physiologically, the chemistry of your being.  It will make you feel better and do better.

Understanding what innovation is, is critical for culture change.

"One of the characteristics that made Pixar, and is very rare and important, is that the corporate culture recognized that contributions can come from everybody, anybody," says Pam Kerwin, 

To be hit by an explosion at close range is to experience light and sound as darkness and silence; silence as your ears ring louder than any sound, darkness as dust and smoke envelop you. The air filled with flying chunks of cinder block, and the men were pitched forward onto their hands, the floor suddenly gritty with debris. 

Pay attention to the people who make you feel that kind of “enthusiastic longing”. 

I feel the need to move to the mountains to become a monk who does nothing but sit in lotus all day long. 

 Learning is not a box where the learners are caged rather it’s about eradicating the limitations to enable the learners to reach beyond the retrains and think with divergence. 

To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal — to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.

Good or bad, either way when you look back, it will become something worth remembering. You can say that you had the guts to go for what you want and no one can take that away from you.