How to Inspire Generosity, Respect, Ease, Vision, Compassion

By Mary Jaksch

Legendary blogger Seth Godin has published a fantastic new free Ebook, called What Matters Now. He asked a whole crowd of people who feature on the Net the same question: “What Matters Now?” and collected the results in his ebook.

Here are some hightlights:

Generosity

If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to
get you more involved. ~ Seth Godin

Fear

Until Fear is gone, (and realize he may never completely leave) make the decision to be
courageous. The world needs your story in order to be complete. ~ Anne Jackson

Respect

Dignity is more important than wealth. It’s going to be a long, long time before we can make everyone on earth wealthy, but we can help people find dignity this year (right now if we choose to).
Dignity comes from creating your own destiny andfrom the respect you get from your family, your peers and society.~ Jacqueline Novogratz

Ease

Dear ones, EASE UP. Pump the brakes. Take a step back. Seriously. Take two steps back. Turn off all your electronics and surrender over all your aspirations and do absolutely nothing for a spell. I know, I know – we all need to save the world. But trust me: the world will still need saving tomorrow. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Vision

When times are tough, vision is the first casualty. Before conditions can improve, it is the first thing we must recover. ~ Michael Hyatt

Enrichment

We are all on a search – a search for more meaning in our lives. Through choosing to enrich other people’s lives,
you add meaning to both their life and your own. ~ Rajesh Setty

Most

Today, with so much change and uncertainty, so much pressure and new ways to do things, the middle of the road is the road to nowhere .Are you the most of anything? ~ William C. Taylor

Strength

Forget about working on your weaknesses —> Focus on supporting your strengths. I worked on my weaknesses for 40 years to little avail. Still “needs improvement,” as they say. Why? Easy. We hate doing things we’re not good at, so we avoid them.

No practice makes perfect hard to attain. But my strengths – ah, I love my strengths. I’ll work on
them till the purple cows come home. ~ Marti Barletta,

Education

Education has a ripple effect. If you get education right, you get many things right: escape from poverty, better family health, and improved status of women. The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago.
The second best time is now. ~ John Wood

Management

Management is great if you want people to comply – to do specific things a certain way. But it stinks if you want people to engage – to think big or give the world something it didn’t know it was missing. ~ Daniel H. Pink

Power

Stop waiting around for bosses and companies to get better and complaining about how are you treated. Build the skills—and use them—that will permit you to create the environment in which you want to live. ~ Jeffrey Pfeffer

Harmony

Harmony takes bravery, an open heart. It takes lying awake at night when one of your co-workers is having a rough patch and dreaming up ways to help. ~ Jack Covert

Evangelism

The future belongs to people who can spread ideas. ~ Guy Kawasaki

Compassion

Business is missing one important core value: compassion. ~ Mitch Joel

Forever

You are immortal. The result of everything you do today will last forever.
Everything you buy, own, consume is likely to last forever somewhere in a landfill. ~ Piers Fawkes

Empathy

We have it in our power to begin the world again by implementing the ancient principle that is often called the Golden Rule: Always treat all others as you would wish to be treated yourself. ~ Karen Armstrong

You can download the Ebook for free here and get all the goodness.

Let us know what you think of it in the comments.

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