THE DAILY SPARK

TAKING RISKS

“If you know something’s going to work, it’s not worth working on.  It requires no courage.  It requires no faith.  It requires no skin in the game.  Whether you’re a spy or a teacher or a spouse or a painter or an abuela or an astronaut or a monk or a barista or a board-game designer, the bits that matter are the bits you make matter by putting yourself on the line for them.  The unknown is the foundry where you forge your chips.  Everything important is uncertain.  Sitting with the discomfort of that uncertainty is the hard part, the wedge that can move the world.”

Quote from FOUNDRY by Eliot Peper – https://eliotpeper.com/

REFLECTION:

  • What is a project you need to do that requires courage, faith, skin in the game?
  • Are you willing to put yourself on the line?
  • Can you step into the unknown and “forge your chips?”

WHAT MATTERS IN LIFE

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

REFLECTION:

  • Looking back at your life, what events stand out for you?
  • Do you remember them as positive or negative? 
  • What if you could shift the way you remember the negative situations to one that influenced you to be who you are?
  • What is something that you previously viewed as a failure (negative) but now see as a necessary part of your journey?
  •  Write about it.

YOUR INTENT

“There is a difference between helping someone because if you don’t you will lose their love or some sense of your own image as a caring person, and helping someone because your impulse of heart moves you to their aid.”

Quote from THE BOOK OF AWAKENING by Mark Nepo

REFLECTION:

  • Why do you help others?
  • Examine your intentions… for thier love?… to prove to yourself you are a caring person?… because you want to help them – a loving action?
  • Explore this… ask yourself why you help another.