Ever heard someone say this: that you are good enough?
When we reframe the most fundamental attempt to be extraordinary, the ordinary becomes imperative.
We seek vitality in whatever we pursue.
Your personal growth journey is good enough, revealing its path to you – beckoning you with its iteration.
Aren’t we all progressive learners and good humans at its root?
In a beautiful book excerpt I read in my next big idea email that greets me daily, there’s this book called ‘The Greatest Sentence Ever Written’ by Walter Isaacson. In it, Benjamin Franklin not only helped craft the sentence that defines our American creed, but he also lived it by putting things back in the river. Eloquently put, “It’s not about how much you get to take out of the river, it’s how much you get to put into the river.”
Just go close to a river, and see how it flows with you, caressing your feet, and grounding you with its spirited intent.
When you write about your work, start plowing in with goodness and how much you can give back even when you are faintly making a buck.
Sometimes, the best way to be better is to be good at that one thing: mastering a skill, learning how to cook, teaching someone in need, thinking about your retirement and still acting on your mission, and I can go on and on.
Someone told me ‘how you do anything is how you do everything’.
Embed the goodness in your work and life, and see how much better you become.
Because in its radical sense, being good is always better – and keeps getting better, transcending the superlatives we embody in our work-lives. We elevate ourselves to be good when we are in our highest agency and contribution towards our mankind, every better way!
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