Saturday, December 24, 2016

Try Love

You can't solve every problem with love but you can't hurt any with it, either.

Try love. You need never run out.

-- Doug Smith


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Build Momentum

What do you do with a problem that immobilized you?

Tackle the first problem you can and the second won't seem so hard.

How many problems get solved by doing nothing?

No so many. Maybe, in your world, none. As often as I've tried the "do nothing and see how it works out" approach, it is often disappointing. It's works better to do something.

And when it's hard to start, I start small. Solve a little problem. Then a bigger one. Build some momentum.

Stay curious, adjust, be flexible. Then solve those problems one at a time.

-- Doug Smith

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Find the Positive Choices

Sometimes our biggest problems are filled with positive choices.

Dig digger. Think harder. Ask more. Stay curious and open. The positive choices are there.

-- Doug Smith

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