Sterling Terrell

recovering economist

Seize This Moment Of Adversity

Seize This Moment Of Adversity

Seize this moment because – well – it might be just what you have been waiting on.

Maybe this was the push you needed?

Maybe your life is headed in a different direction now, but what doors does that open? What things are now possible?

I, for one, am thankful for a few pushes I have had over the years.

Although, at the time, they felt more like punches in the face.

The point here is that a changes in life can be the beginning of something new.

What will you do?

Perhaps you’re stuck in bed recovering. Well, now you have time to write. Perhaps your emotions are overwhelming and painful, turn it into material. You lost your job or a relationship? That’s awful, but now you can travel unencumbered. You’re having a problem? Now you know exactly what to approach that mentor about. Seize this moment to deploy the plan that has long sat dormant in your head. Every chemical reaction requires a catalyst. Let this be yours.

-Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is The Way

Making Due – That Is Where You Start?

Making Due – That Is Where You Start?

You start accomplishing something by making due where you are.

(It’s “Making Do” though, right? That’s what I get for copying the book quote below. I bet three copy editors missed it too.)

I mean, I hate to break it to you, but it does not matter what pen you use.

Or what notebook. Or what chair.

The thing that is stopping you is not a better app, or a hack that you just haven’t come across yet.

A new computer is not going to change your life.

And don’t rely on that morning yoga routine, and the liter of water you drink afterward, to overcome all of the adversity staring you down.

80 percent of what you need is to just begin.

Don’t let fear paralyze you into doing nothing.

Start. Just start.

I believe there is enormous power in beginning right were you are at today.

We spend a lot of time thinking about how things are supposed to be, or what the rules say we should do. Trying to get it all perfect. We tell ourselves that we’ll get started once the conditions are right, or once we’re sure we can trust this or that. When, really, it’d be better to focus on making due with what we’ve got. On focusing on results instead of pretty methods.

-Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is The Way

Sterling Terrell