Quotes About Growth

It's always the hard part that creates value.

Have you outgrown your systems or beliefs? Is it time that you upgraded? Or, on a personal level, as Jerry Colonna, executive coach to some of the biggest tech stars in Silicon Valley, would ask: "How are you complicit in creating the conditions you say you don't want?

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. —ROBERT FROST,

Embrace uncertainty, groundlessness, and fear as the place where you'll really learn and grow.

Success, however you define it, is achievable if you collect the right field-tested beliefs and habits.

Oftentimes, in order to do the big things, you have to let the small bad things happen.

One of the world's great investors once said to me, "Tom, what do you consider the number-one failing of CEOs?" After I hemmed and hawed, he said, "They don't read enough.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I

Many a false step was made by standing still." –Fortune cookie

I used to resent obstacles along the path, thinking, 'If only that hadn't happened life would be so good.' Then I suddenly realized, life is the obstacles. There is no underlying path." Janna Levin TW/IG: @jannalevin

Think of them as insurance against the weaknesses of human nature—your weaknesses, my weaknesses, our weaknesses: 1. Make it conscious. 2. Make it a game. 3. Make it competitive. 4. Make it small and temporary.

To find the right things, we'll need to go to the garden.

Getting fired, despite sometimes coming as a surprise and leaving you scrambling to recover, is often a godsend. Most people aren't lucky enough to get fired and die a slow spiritual death over 30-40 years of tolerating the mediocre.

So I think, every day, it's something to reflect on and think about 'How do I become less competitive in order that I can become more successful?

I used to resent obstacles along the path, thinking, "If only that hadn't happened life would be so good." Then I suddenly realized, life is the obstacles. There is no underlying path. Our role here is to get better at navigating those obstacles. I strive to find calm, measured responses and to see hindrances as a chance to problem-solve.

don't label a lot of things good/bad. [Instead, I ask] can I evolve from this? What do I want now?

Failure isn't always durable. You can go back and you can look at it and go, 'Oh, that wasn't a failure. That was a key moment of my development that I needed to take, and I can trust my instinct. I really can'.

love, be loved, and never stop learning—

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."—Albert Einstein

A common rookie error that inexperienced leaders make is always agreeing with the last person they talked to; this takes a while to get past, though it becomes easy once you get exposed to enough people who contradict each other.

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never let a good crisis go to waste. It's the universe challenging you to learn something new and rise to the next level of your potential. On the other hand, when not in crisis, I consider "my life is great" as a cop-out, a stuck place, where learning is no longer available to us. Which is why you shouldn't wait for crisis to happen before you take steps to go beyond what you're capable of seeing on your own.