Happy Ending

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

- Orson Welles

Release

Type Four EnneaThought® for July 6th, 2018

"I now release my tendency to be distraught, fatigued, and inhibited".

(Enneagram Transformations, 61)

Imagination

EnneaThought® for the Day

Type Four EnneaThought® for July 2nd

Be aware that your "characteristic temptation" is to overuse your imagination. Average to Unhealthy Fours think that they will find themselves and the meaning of their feelings by retreating into fantasies. How can you stay grounded and focused on constructive activity today? (Understanding the Enneagram, 90)

Self-Abandonment

EnneaThought® for the Day

Type Four EnneaThought® for July 1st

Be aware of the transformational process, no matter what type you are. The more we allow ourselves to feel the pain of our self-abandonment, the Essential qualities that we have been longing for begin to arise in us. The unfinished business of childhood begins to resolve itself in our psyches and our hearts begin to heal. (Understanding the Enneagram, 365)

Need to Be

I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere that I needed to be.

Douglas Adams

The World

“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”

― Frederick Buechner

A Guide

A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path -- he does not mock and jeer at him.

Epictetus (philosopher)

Gain

There's no great loss without some small gain.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Your Life

Any part of your life you have not loved will keep repeating itself. - John Demartini

Essential Skills

Let’s stop calling these “soft skills” and start calling them ESSENTIAL SKILLS in business and in life: 1. Emotional Safety 2. Equality 3. Generosity 4. Curiosity toward ideas of teammates 5. Empathy KINDNESS is foundational to every essential skill.

- Adam Rifkin (Twitter)

Talent

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

- Erica Jong

View of Life

"Never limit your view of life by any past experience." - Ernest Holmes

Garden

The Universe gives us each a garden—our lives—and it’s up to us to tend to that garden to see what beautiful things we can grow. - Deborah Perdue 

Reasonable

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

- George Bernard Shaw

Mindfulness

"Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance."

- Amit Ray

Tested

Darkness

"What if the darkness of these times is not the darkness of the tomb, but of the womb?... Breath, then push!" ... Powerful, healing words from Valarie Kaur

Wow. Chills.

What You Really Want

"What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind." - Vernon Howard

Belonging

"Fitting in is a hollow substitute for belonging." - Brene Brown

Obstacles

"There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to failure." -    Herbert Casson

Destination

“One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.” - Henry Miller

Overcautious

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

Friedrich Schiller

You Can Do Anything

"Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance and facing your fears."

- Gillian Anderson

Something Great

Coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great. The execution and delivery are what's key.

- Sergey Brin

Become

"You become who you're with." - Sherman Alexi