All quotes from
Rob's book
What
would it look like for you to approach tomorrow with a sense of honor and
privilege, believing that you have work to do in the world, that it matters,
and that it’s needed, that you have a path and you’re working your craft?
Stop
thinking about shit that ain’t happenin.
There are
always two risks. There’s the risk of
trying something new, and there’s the risk of not trying it.
Failure
is simply another opportunity to learn.
Sometimes
we don’t throw ourselves into it because we believe that small things are
beneath us. What we don’t understand is
that what appears to be the small things are actually the big things. They’re where it starts, and throwing
yourself into that inevitably creates new opportunities for you.
Surrendering
the outcomes is making peace with the lack of control over how people respond
to us and our work.
Surrendering
the outcomes is coming to terms with the freedom people have to react to us and
our work however they want. Surrendering
the outcomes is embracing the fact that there are no guarantees when it comes
to results.
If
you are looking for a particular response to bring you joy, the response may
never come.
Sabbath
is when you spend a day remembering that efficiency and production are not
God’s highest goals for your life. Joy
is.
Find your
rituals, develop your routines, create those practices that ground and center
you.
Life is
too short to help make a world you don’t want to live in.
Suffering
and loss have this extraordinary capacity to alert and awaken us to the gift
that life is.
“You”
hasn’t been attempted before.
