I Think More – George Mutale

“If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.” – David Viscott
“Not as many people are listening to you as intently as you are thinking they are.” – George Mutale
“Not as many people are listening to you as intently as you are thinking they are. Here’s a generalisation and exaggeration to drive this point home – No one is listening. And yet how we worry about what other people think.” – George Mutale
“Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.” – René Descartes
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” – Mark Twain
“Life is not a dress rehearsal—this is probably it. Make it count. Time is extremely limited and goes by fast. Do what makes you happy and fulfilled—few people get remembered hundreds of years after they die anyway. Don’t do stuff that doesn’t make you happy (this happens most often when other people want you to do something). Don’t spend time trying to maintain relationships with people you don’t like, and cut negative people out of your life. Negativity is really bad. Don’t let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.” – Sam Altman
“Look for a way to life someone up. And if that’s all you do, that’s enough.” – Elizabeth Lesser
“To make a difference in someone’s life, you just need to care.” – George Mutale, Nilina Hope (inspired by Mandy Hale).
“To make a difference is someone’s life, you don’t have to be brilliant, rich, beautiful, or perfect. You just have to care.” – Mandy Hale
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” – Fredrick Koeing
“In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”
– Tony Robbins
” Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.” – Malachi 3:10
“When you’re down to nothing, God is up to something.” – Robert A. Schuller
“Look through the windows. They are so many windows. Which windows you ask? What people think.” – George Mutale
“The right decision is the wrong decision if it’s made too late.” – Lee Iacocca
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
“When opportunity comes, it’s too late to prepare.” – John Wooden
“We have met the enemy, and he is us.” – Pogo
“Being at peace with yourself means you can say, ‘It’s OK to die today.'” – George Mutale
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.” – Henry David Thoreau
“To see far is one thing: going there is another.” – Brancusi
“The future will find you no matter what, it’s just whether it’s on your terms or not.” – Kanyanta Chipanta
“Do you need a little darkness to get you going?” – Walt Whiteman
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” – Henry David Thoreau
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure, that just ain’t so.” – Mark Twain
“We are threatened by other people’s beliefs. Ours is one perspective. Other people’s beliefs are just other perspectives.” – George Mutale
“Worrying is an addiction.” – Brianna Wiest
“The reality is that inner peace is the true happiness, and everything else is just a false means of trying to convince yourself that you are “okay.”” – Brianna Wiest
“We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus
“Where you put your attention is where you put your life.” – Scott Barry Kaufman
“It’s really important that when you are looking for supports, you have people that you trust, but you also have people who trust you to be able to take big leaps in your life and work it out along the way.” – Dr. Rebecca Ray
What makes you happy?
Happiness is the path to happiness.
“One of the most important things to say about the gender data gap is that it is not generally malicious, or even deliberate… It is simply the product of a way of thinking that has been around for millennia and is therefore a kind of not thinking. A double not thinking, even: men go without saying, and women don’t get said at all.” – Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
“Whoever saves a life, saves the world entire.” – The Talmud
“When you are the one driving, you really pay attention.” – George Mutale
“Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.” – Gina Greenlee
“Keep your eyes on the finish line and not on the turmoil around you.” – Rihanna
“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.” – Rosalynn Carter
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” – Sun Tzu
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
“That which is hateful to you, do not do unto your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.” – Hillel the Elder
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And being for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?” – Hillel the Elder
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me…and if not now, when?” – Hillel the Elder
“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.” – Rosa Parks
“Choose to be happy.” – George Mutale
“When it is important enough, we make the time.” – Marie Forleo
“All of us know. When it is important enough, we make the time. If not, we make an excuse.” – Marie Forleo
“Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.” – Stephen Covey
“The past changes.” – George Mutale
“You think your past defines you, and worse, you think it is an unchangeable reality, when really your perception of it changes as you do.” – Brianna Wiest
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
“…I am awake now.” – George Mutale
“The future is already here, if we can just stop ignoring it.” – George Mutale
“I keep finding new ways that people Suck!” – George Mutale
“Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself, / (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” – Walt Witman
“I’m the guy you bring in when you want to get things done.” – George Mutale
“A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles.” – Jane Fuller
“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.” – Jim Rohn
“Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.” – John Maxwell
“The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know what you want, and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it.” – Norman Vincent Peale
To win you must act like a specialized expert, charge based on the value of your solutions, and say “no” early and often. – One line summary of Blair Enns’ book, Win Without Pitching
Stress is caused by things we should have done but didn’t do.
“Process saves us from the poverty of our intentions.” – Elizabeth King
“The way you think about this matters a great deal.” – George Mutale
A human life is an invitation to create. – George Mutale
What do I want now?
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Have you ever felt Africa turn in her sleep?” – George Mutale, 14th September 2022
“Allow me to give you. But first you need to open your hands.” – George Mutale
“One cannot receive with closed hands.” – George Mutale, African Proverb
“Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.” ― Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
“If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb
“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello”. – Paulo Coelho.
“I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I’m not where I used to be.” – Joyce Meyer
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
“How you make others feel about themselves, says a lot about you.” – curiano.com
“So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“True happiness is to enjoy the present.” – Seneca
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” – Henry Ford
“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.” – Jim Rohn
“You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.” – Jim Rohn
“Failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.” – Jim Rohn”
“Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.” – Nathaniel Emmons
“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.” – John Dryden
The understanding of self-worth is the beginning of progress.” – Jim Rohn
“Do one thing everyday that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” – Richard P. Feynman
“…don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth…” – Rumi
“If you can’t figure out what you want. Start with thinking about what you like.” – George Mutale
“It can’t be summer all year long. Make hay while the sun shines.” – George Mutale
“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” – James Clear
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Anonymous
“Gratitude is a beautiful prayer.” – George Mutale
“Enlightenment is when a wave realises it’s the ocean.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“Do things for other people, and actually give some of what you have away. The rest, including happiness will take care of themselves.” – George Mutale
“No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” —Edmund Burke
“May there be such a oneness between us that when one weeps the other tastes salt.” – Kahlil Gibran
“When you touch one thing with deep awareness you touch everything.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.” – James Clear
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity. This is one reason why meaningful change does not require radical change. Small habits can make a meaningful difference by providing evidence of a new identity. And if a change is meaningful, it is actually big. That’s the paradox of making small improvements.” – James Clear
“It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you don’t stop”.
“Growth is the only evidence of life.” – Cardinal John Henry Newman
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Gandhi
“Be patient, or work faster, quicker or more efficiently.”- George Mutale
“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” – Harvey S. Firestone
“You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.” – Maya Angelou
“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.” – Lao Tzu
“How we spend our time, is how we live our lives.” – Annie Dillard
“Change how you see, and see how you change.” – Zen Proverb
“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.” – Maya Angelou
“There’s no such thing as innocent bystanding.” – Seamus Heaney
“What is your vocation? To be a good person.” — Marcus Aurelius
“…your job is not to be anything like any of the people that I put up behind me. In fact, your job is to be as unlike them as you can possibly be. Your only job while you’re here on the planet is to be as good at being you as they are at being them. That’s the deal.” – Caroline McHugh
Your job is to figure out how you are different and do more of that. – Caroline McHugh
Your interiority has no competition. – Caroline McHugh
“We come complete.” – Caroline McHugh
“We all have our own thing. That is the MAGIC. We all come with our strength and our own Queendom. Mine could never compare to her’s and her’s could never compare to mine.: – Lasd Jill Scott
“There comes a time in your life when forgiveness takes over.” – Tina Turner
“Instead of thinking about doing, do stuff and think about doing.” – Saku Tuominen
“You are a mashup of what you let into your life.” – Austin Kleon
“Restoring Dignity to those closest to us and then to others. This is how we heal the world.” – George Mutale
“Music is a weapon…Music is the weapon of the future.” – Fela Kuti
“Connection isn’t measured by bars on your phone. It’s measured by experience and trust and how people feel about you.” – Neal Cross
“If you’re going to do something good, do it in a place where you can do good.” – Neal Cross
“In developing countries there are a lot of people trying to influence change, but I feel there is a simple formula: help the locals make more money doing good things instead of bad things.” – Neal Cross
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Will Durant
“Truth springs from argument amongst friends.” – David Hume
For any person doing work that matters, the two opposing thoughts are: “This might work” and “This might not work”. – Seth Godin
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.” – Sophocles
“Constraints are your friend, ask my friend the Relational Database.” – George Mutale
“Do what you are most likely to forget first.” – George Mutale
“How have you improved how you do your work?” – George Mutale
“Giving gets easier with practice.” – George Mutale
“They said I forgot. I said my brain was being efficient.” – George Mutale
“It’s your duty to be generous. Whether your generosity is received is a different matter altogether.” – George Mutale
“When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.” – Monica Bellucci
“We do not do it because it is easy. We do not do it because it is hard. We do it because it is important work.” – George Mutale
“The best way to predict the future is to to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Don’t think, just do it. You do it before you realise it should not have been possible.” – George Mutale
“Buy your own dip.” – George Mutale
“Love trumps doctrine every time.” – Vincent Harding
“Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“I have no intentions of living a long life. But I have every intention of living a good life.” – George Mutale
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.” – Elon Musk