Quotes About Reflection

Purity also offers you a new lens through which you view life. Not only are you more able to see God with the eyes of faith, you're also more able to see Him in others....Wouldn't it be nice not only to see God in a boyfriend, but know that your boyfriend sees God in you?

When women begin to doubt or ignore the voice of their conscience, they become their own worst enemies. They then even wonder why love seems so elusive.

Wanting something more, and ready to take a risk, Elizebeth quit her job at the Indiana high school in the spring of 1916 and moved back in with her parents to think about what was next.

Once you [work on your idea extra hours], you'll learn whether your excitement and interest is real or just a passing phase.

Rather than demand whatever it takes, we ask, What will it take?

You have to keep asking yourself if the way you're working today is the way you'd want to work in 10, 20, or 30 years. If not, now is the time to make a change, not "later.

Ask yourself: When was the last time you had three or even four completely uninterrupted hours to yourself and your work?

It was amazing that it could be done, but we had forgotten to ask whether it should be done.

We don't want reactions. We don't want first impressions. We don't want knee-jerks. We want considered feedback. Read it over. Read it twice, three times even. Sleep on it. Take your time to gather and present your thoughts—just like the person who pitched the original idea took their time to gather and present theirs.

The ability to be alone with your thoughts is, in fact, one of the key advantages of working remotely.

And between all those context switches and attempts at multitasking, you have to add buffer time. Time for your head to leave the last thing and get into the next thing. This is how you end up thinking "What did I actually do today?" when the clock turns to five and you supposedly spent eight hours at the office. You know you were there, but the hours had no weight, so they slipped away with nothing to show.

When calm starts early, calm becomes the habit. But if you start crazy, it'll define you. You have to keep asking yourself if the way you're working today is the way you'd want to work in 10, 20, or 30 years. If not, now is the time to make a change, not "later.

El nuevo lujo es el lujo de la libertad y el tiempo.

Workaholics miss the point, too. They try to fix problems by throwing sheer hours at them. They try to make up for intellectual laziness with brute force. This results in inelegant solutions.

Así que espera a que tu última gran idea se enfríe un poco. Por supuesto, no dejes de tener grandes ideas. Ni de entusiasmarte con ellas. Sencillamente no reacciones al calentón. Apúntalas y déjalas reposar unos días. Y entonces, determina cuál es su verdadera importancia con la mente más clara.

So let your latest grand ideas cool off for a while

You rarely regret saying no. But you often wind up regretting saying yes.

So let your latest grand ideas cool off for a while first. By all means, have as many great ideas as you can. Get excited about them. Just don't act in the heat of the moment. Write them down and park them for a few days. Then, evaluate their actual priority with a calm mind.

Which features you choose to include or omit have a lot to do with less software too. Don't be afraid to say no to feature requests that are hard to do. Unless they're absolutely essential, save time/effort/confusion by leaving them out. Slow down too. Don't take action on an idea for a week and see if it still seems like a great idea after the initial buzz wears off. The extra marinading time will often help your brain come up with an easier solution.

Long lists are guilt trips. The longer the list of unfinished items, the worse you feel about it. And at a certain point, you just stop looking at it because it makes you feel bad. Then you stress out and the whole thing turns into a big mess.

Sometimes abandoning what you're working on is the right move, even if you've already put in a lot of effort. Don't throw good time after bad work.

Similarly, if you lose someone, don't replace him immediately. See how long you can get by without that person and that position.

It's so easy to say yes. Yes to another feature, yes to an overly optimistic deadline, yes to a mediocre design. Soon, the stack of things you've said yes to grows so tall you can't even see the things you should really be doing. Start getting into the habit of saying no—even to many of your best ideas. Use the power of no to get your priorities straight. You rarely regret saying no. But you often wind up regretting saying yes.

Also, don't be timid about your conclusions. Sometimes abandoning what you're working on is the right move, even if you've already put in a lot of effort. Don't throw good time after bad work.