The DAILY SPARK Blog

PURCHASE DECISIONS

All purchases involve a decision.  Yes or no, this or that, now or later…  But it ‘s helpful to realize that all decisions involve a purchase. When we decide to spend time or take a risk or make a commitment, our brains act in a way very similar to how we choose to make a purchase.  When you invite someone to follow along or introduce a new sort of behavior, you’re actually selling.  Finding empathy to treat it like a purchase is worth the effort.  Even if it doesn’t cost money.  Especially then!

FROM: Seth Godin’s blog

REFLECTION:

  • When trying to get someone to follow you, do you treat it as a purchase decision or Moses with the tablets?
  • How can you find a new way to “sell” and idea you are hoping someone will”buy?”
  • Can you embrace more empathy … make it worth the effort?

MEANING… MEANINGFUL

The secret is not to find the meaning of life, but to use your life to make things that are meaningful.

Quote by James Clear from his 3-2-1 Thursday Blog

REFLECTION:

  • What meaningful things have you done in your life?
  • What remains to be done to make a meaningful contribution to humankind?
  • What action can you take today?

carry on.

carry on.

until you understand that life was not meant to be easy. or perpetually beautiful. or without pain or risk or loss.  you will not know what miraculous things you are made of. you will not know to what extent your strength can push you through and what it feels like to build a bonfire inside your very own lungs that roars and billows and fights to the bitter end. you will not recognize the sound that tragedy makes when it begins to sing hallelujah into the vocal chords you believed to this day, were fast asleep.  and you will never understand how capable you are to sit in silence and listen to the voice that says,”carry on, child, your work is not yet done here.”

Poem by ullie-kaye

REFLECTION:

  • What loss, pain, risk have you experienced in life that has proven to you what you are made of?
  • What strengths have pushed you through to a new place…showed you what you are capable of?
  • Can you sit in silence today… reflect on your voice as it whispers “carry on.”
  • What is your work that has yet to get done?