Week #04, It's the Year of the Rabbit!
Don't compromise yourself and don't compromise with yourself. Do the hard, amazing, weird thing!!! Don't give up because it's hard! You can make any excuse for yourself inside your mind, and you should make NONE! Seriously. Do you talk to yourself? You should. And you should use that self talk to hold yourself to a high standard, and to hold yourself accountable to that high standard. Don't soften that drive for the people around you. It isn't your job to bring them along. Their journey is their journey.
You owe it to yourself, your loved ones, your Earth, and The Universe, to drive yourself to your own weird, unique, personal greatness.
Week #03 of 2023, half of January is left.
"If you wish to be a writer, write." -Epictetus
Often when we say something like "I wish I was a writer." when what we actually mean is "I wish I was a rich, famous, and well-respected writer", which is entirely different.
I don't know if you will ever be a rich, famous, and well respected writer. Neither of us can control that. But I know you won't be if you don't first decide to be merely "a writer" today.
Week #02, it's almost 2024!!!
This week I am thinking about goal setting. Not "the goals that I am setting" but "what is the most effective way to set goals?".
I always quote Art and Fear, by David Bayles and Ted Orland. That book taught me that focusing on the process, or the "doing" was much more important than the "having done" or the achievement.
Week #01, OMG... a blank canvas!
First off, I don't think we should mention Dr. King without acknowledging two things. First, Dr. King wasn't universally loved when he was living. He was a very divisive figure, with 63% of Americans rating him unfavorably in the last Gallup poll taken before his assassination. This fact is relevant as we view current events. Take note of your bias. Change is uncomfortable for most, regardless how clearly right and just it is in hindsight.
Week #52, but who's counting.
I don't know what to say this week, except maybe... it's just another week. Clocks, calendars, days, weeks, minutes... we made them all up. They don't exist. The sun rises and falls. So... if the New Year is helpful, use it, set some goals. If the New Year is fraught, and full of anxiety, forget it. Wait till mid-January to set some goals. Who cares. The Universe doesn't, in the best way.
Week #51, Can you smell the barn?
Do you have any ideas, thoughts, or dreams about who you want to be and things you want to have accomplished a year from now? Write them down. Write them as if they have already happened, in a letter to yourself in the first person, present tense. Imagine you are reflecting back on 2023 and all that has happened. "Hello Me, It is December 20th, 2023. So much awesome has happened this year. The weekly reminder email that I started in October of 2022 just won the Grammy for best email newsletter... etc," you get the picture. It's like Magic. Thoughts are energy, and energy changes the world.
Week #50 of 2022... two weeks left... plenty.
Everything you are made of, and everything that everyone you have ever loved was made of, has always been here.
It was here in the beginning, it was here during, and it is here now.
That gives me comfort when I am unsettled by my dwindling weeks...
Week #49 of 2022... the month of reflection and giving
A new week has graced us with it's presence, and a new year isn't far behind. Time to stand up, walk over to your 4KWeeks poster, and fill in the next square. Done? As the holiday season kicks up, remember that the best way to be happy is to focus on helping other people. If you find yourself feeling morose or melancholy... compliment a friend, give a kid 5 bucks, give someone something. Who care's if it isn't altruism... it's good stuff. Focusing on others is a sure cure for unhappiness. Ok, here are a few morsels from us to you. Get started making success your habit. Shop our tools here. RemarkableWeeks Week #49 in the year 1903, Marie Curie Became the first woman to receive the Nobel...
Week #48 of 2022...and November is nearly gone.
Remarkable Weeks
- Week #48 in the year 1936 , Anna Mary Robertson Moses (Grandma Moses) She would go on to become one of the United States most famous painters, painted her first painting. It's never too late! She was 3977.29 weeks old. (76.27 yrs)
- Week #48 in the year 2012, Phoebe Waller-Bridge wrote and starred in her one-woman show, Fleabag She was 1428.00 weeks old. (27.38 yrs)
Week #47 of 2022. There is nothing for sale here.
Remarkable Weeks
- Week #47 in the year 1905, Albert Einstein published his Mass-energy wquivalence paper, with his most famous equation, E=mc squared. He was 1392 weeks old. (26.7 yrs)
- Week #47 in the year 1960, Ruby Bridges walked, with her mother and 4 federal agents through a crowd of angry, screaming, white adults to go to her first day of first grade. A STAGGERING act of courage to this 45 year old man. She was 322.71 weeks old. (6.18 yrs) She is currently 68.