by Karah Karah | Feb 10, 2015 | Maverick Mind Shifts
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A brush with death brings about new life. Karah shares why it’s not how far you fall . . . it’s how high you bounce!
Quotes & Notes:
- Before that [when I had my stroke] I didn’t really know what it was. I thought that it happens to older people…what I realized is that when you have this thing when you are younger, you can have your life back again, and that’s really what has happened to me.
- I remember it all basically until I got there on the flight.
- I was so happy to see our friends and family [in intensive care] like you normally would be.
- I think you realize, that in those time frames it is amazing to have those people around you that you love.
- People sometimes will do anything for you. That’s how life works, that’s how people are so important in your business, in your life.
- Dr. Dave – “I remember some of the big wins and what the celebrations were. They went to go put a sock on, and you took it away and put it on your own.”
- I think you realize when you are in a lower place and life, no matter what it is, what can I do now? I never really thought why did this happen to me? It did happen to you.
- I think 95% of my speech or reading and writing are back.
- I think in some ways it is a matter of realizing that your life will be awesome at times and at times it won’t be awesome, and that is important.
- I when you look at your life, it is a matter of do I have my foundation clear, can I be authentic, can I be the person at work that I am at home?
I think it is about challenging yourself more each day.
- Life is about being forward thinking.
- I am working on meditation, for if I can be better within my body, for example, I can do a lot with other people.
- It is just a matter of be the mom that Bennett wants me to be.
- If you are in it and decide I don’t like this, then you can go beyond where you want to be.
- It’s not about what has been dealt to me. It is about what can I do about it.
- If you are a victim, then something beyond me is controlling me, and I don’t like that.
- I think I have realized that I have goals and I think I am allowed to do things now more than I ever was before.
- If you know what your gifts are, then use them.
- Excuses, oh I don’t like those words at all.
- Status quo, no. Whatever it is I just like to go beyond.
- Lifestyle design, I think it is really good that I create my life better than it was before.
- Epic life, I like that because I think you can get a certain energy from something like that.
- Regret, so I think everything that happens to us is good for us.
- When your family is in a situation like that, you just want to fix it.
- To use the word relentless, that’s what it takes to know what you will do what it takes.
- We all get sidetracked, with the interruptions in life, but it is important that we don’t lose it.
- “It’s not about how far you fall, it’s about how high you bounce.”
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by Karah Karah | Apr 25, 2014 | Maverick Mind Shifts
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Quotes & Notes:
- The most valuable land in the world is the graveyard … in the graveyard is buried all of the unwritten novels, all of the un-launched businesses, all of the unexecuted ideas, all of the ideas that people carried around with them all of their life and said I’m going to do this tomorrow.
- When I reach the end of my life, I want to look at my body of work and say yes that represents me.
- The title of the book [Die Empty] is more of an operating philosophy for me.
- A lot of people regret not having been more intentional with doing the work they have done.
- People spend a third of their adult life at their job. Why would we not want that big chunk of life to represent the best of who we are?
- As I approach my work this season, which of these decisions am I going to regret more later on in life.
- No one charts a course for mediocrity. Nobody wakes up and says, “I can’t wait to crank out this steaming pile of crap today.”
- The 7 Deadly Sins of Mediocrity:
- Aimlessness: A general lack of cohesiveness within your day-to-day activities.
- Boredom: A trigger for productivity or stagnancy.
- Comfort: A refusal to innovate after relative success.
- Delusion: An inaccurate sense of your skills, weaknesses and core drivers.
- Ego: Inflexibility and unwillingness to adapt or learn.
- Fear: A paralyzing effect rooted in imagination.
- Guardedness: Neglecting community and embracing isolation.
- One of the most difficult things is acting upon the things that you know to be true.
- It’s not sufficient to read books and internalize knowledge, it’s not sufficient to talk to people and affirm the truth. You have to act on it before it becomes reality.
- How we tend to think of work is mapping and making, mapping and making, and that’s how most of us go through our life, but there is this third kind of work that we often ignore. This third kind of work is called meshing.
- There are drivers, dreamers and drifters, who all focus on two different types of work rather than all three of them at once.
- Developers are best positioned to spot and leverage opportunities because they are planning, they are being diligent about doing the work, and they are developing themselves and their skills to position them for future activity.
- Understand that we live life with the illusion that we will always have tomorrow to do today’s work. The reality is that we don’t. You only have today to get your best work out of you. So, be intentional today.
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by Karah Karah | Jan 31, 2014 | Bold Biographies, Maverick Mind Shifts
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by Karah Karah | Jan 17, 2014 | Maverick Mind Shifts
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Quotes & Notes:
- EVERYONE is meant to do work that matters to them.
- When you do work that matters to you, it will in turn matter to the people around you and start to impact them in a positive way.
- Leverage your natural talents, strengths, and passions!
- The best place to start is do mini-experiments on the side.
- Transform your career long before you quit your job.
- Strengths are at the core of fulfillment.
- Become a self expert.
- Are your values aligned with who you are spending time with and what you are working on?
- So many of us have been living toward a definition of success that is not ours.
- If you don’t know what your passion is, work your ass off until you figure it out.
- Do your impossible! What are the things that you tell yourself that you cannot do?
- It’s a compounding of confidence.
- The fastest way to do the things you don’t think can be done is hang around people who are already doing them.
- What’s the point of life? . . . to enjoy the way you spend your time!
- “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” -Mahatma Gandhi
- What makes you happy on your best day? I guarantee it isn’t numbers related.
- Everything is impossible until somebody did it.
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by Karah Karah | Oct 15, 2013 | Legendary Leadership, Maverick Mind Shifts
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Quotes & Notes:
- “People ask how long I’ve been in the business and I tell them almost 49 years now and that’s because I was born into it.”
- [About his Dad, Zig Ziglar] “He walked his talk.”
- “Whatever you do, do it with 100% integrity and 100% effort.” [A life lesson learned from his Dad]
- “When there’s alignment, amazing things happen.”
- “Nobody buys training, nobody! What people buy, what people invest time and money for is the results of training.”
- [On Dreams] “Our brain works from where we are to where we want to be.”
- Fear acronym – False Evidence Appearing Real
- “What are the good things that we’ve always done that are interfering with the best things that we could do?”
- “There’s no way we can change the world unless we get a lot of people helping us.”
- Tom’s Mantra – “What you feed your mind determines your appetite.”
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by Karah Karah | Sep 17, 2013 | Maverick Mind Shifts
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Quotes & Notes:
- “Life Entrepreneurship – being the entrepreneur of your life. It’s about creating an extraordinary life by integrating your life, your work and your purpose.”
- “…applying the principles and practices of entrepreneurship to everything you do.”
- “We’re all hungry to lead a good life.”
- “You want to be happy, you want the important people in your life to be happy, you want to create environments where people can be happy, but how much time do we actually spend on it?”
- “…there’s a crisis of meaning.”
- “If you don’t have the courage to actually step up and do it, to act on your convictions, or to make a change…then it’s all meaningless, it’s all academic.”
- “You are much stronger if you take the time to renew and unplug and then come back with renewed energy.”
- Two books inspired Gregg’s current mantra – Daring Greatly & The Happiness Project. His current mantra – “be Gregg.”
- His second mantra was inspired by John Accoff, author of Start – “punch fear in the face.”
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