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Every week for the last 6 months (wow I cannot believe that it has already been 6 months since my first letter to you ), I offered you my thoughts on a personal development subject.
Last week as I was in France seeping a delightful rosé (obviously drinking in moderation!) with my cousin Sebastien, a person very dear to me, we started discussing this very letter. He explained that while he started doubtful, he now genuinely liked the content and thoughts I served him with. So much so that he felt “frustrated not being able to read all the letters” as with a full-time job and three kids, sometimes he falls behind as “life gets in the way”.
Clearly, frustration is the last thing I want for you extraordinary people!
I want to listen to you should you have something to suggest. I am here to serve you.
Assuming he is not the only one in this situation, I want to listen to him and honor his feedback.
This week and next, we will pause, take a breath, and look back at the journey so far.
Some of us look back too often stopping them to move forward, others always focus in front, forgetting to look behind once in a while to check the path completed, the learning acquired and celebrating (Hell yes!!)
Over the course of the next two weeks, I will just offer the key links (each title is linked to the full letter), books, quotes and questions of the 28 letters written for you.
So let’s breath and here is the summary (Part 1 of 2), 1st to 14th letter.
Your precious - One Question to rule them all!
- Book: Start with Why by Simon Sinek
- Quote: “The stronger the why, the easier the how becomes.”- Jim Rohn
- Question: What is your why? what is the purpose of what you do?
How sharp is your axe?
How Inspiring can a GOAT be?
- Book: Dare to Lead by Rene Brown
- Quote: "A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be." - Rosalynn Carter
- Question: How vulnerable are you in what you do, and show to the world?
You got the Power
- Book: The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch
- Quote: “Don’t spend major time on minor things.”- Jim Rohn
- Question: What are your very few things that will change the many?
The Queen, the Scientist and the Maestro share their genius
- Book: Genius by James Gleik
- Quote: “Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius” - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Question: What do you love above and beyond that will make you go the extra mile, read this extra book, or stay awake that extra hour that will make the difference?
Let’s smile, life is happening, now
- Book: Inner Engineering by Sadhguru
- Quote: “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Question: What is the one thing today that made you smile or gave you the simplest joy?
What can bamboo and Greek stoics teach us?
- Book: The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
- Quote: “Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there” - Marcus Aurelius
- Question: How long have you been working on your dream?
Good Western movies and Barack Obama have one thing in common
- Book: Unlimited memories by Kevin Horsley
- Quote: “When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.”- Albert Brooks
- Question: What do you need to do, create, build, and change today to get the obituary you want?
Drinking ristretto on a golf course, the way to go!
- Book: Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff . . . and It’s All Small Stuff by Richard Carlson
- Quote: “The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things” - Stephen Covey
- Question: How much time do you devote to your
important things?
OIA has one of the most beautiful sunset in the world and a hidden secret
- Book: 21 Days to a Big Idea by Bryan Mattimore’
- Quote: “Ideas shape the course of history.”- John Maynard Keynes
- Question: How could you create supportive, forward looking and constructive ideas?
This is the only way down
- Book: Risk Savyy by Gerd Gigerenzer
- Quote: “If you risk nothing, then you risk everything” - Geena Davis
- Question: What is your personal black run? How will you feel at the bottom of your own Black Run?
Could a screwdriver do it?
- Book: Tools of Titans by Tim Ferris
- Quote: "I never dreamed about success, I worked for it." - Estee lauder
- Question: If time or money wasn’t an issue, what enablers (tools) could help you do the job better or faster?
Say I !
- Book: Unlimited Power by Tony Robbins
- Quote: “Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers” - Tony Robbins
- Question: What is the latest Massive Action you have taken and what has been its impact?
This bird has teeth, or does it?
- Book: The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Quote: "The best way to predict your future is to create it." - Abraham Lincoln
- Question: What could be the top 10 risks that might disrupt what you do, want to accomplish or build? And what do you have in place should they happen?
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