A new year brings new opportunities.
No matter what your plans are for the 2024 – one of mine is to travel across Spain, much like I did to Nairobi in 2017 and Thailand in 2019 – it’s good to remember that there’s no time like the present, much like Alessandro Baricco writes in Silk (also available on Audible):
It’s a strange sort of pain to die longing for something you’ll never experience.
For more inspiration, here are some of my favourite Seth Godin quotes from his 2022 blog posts, together with a recommended title from Blinkist.
Hard choices today often lead to good outcomes later. ~ Productive assets and useful flows
Learn more: The Comfort Zone
If we simply put effort on top of a shaky foundation, it’ll all be wasted. The best way forward might be to take a few steps back. ~ The thing about decay
Learn more: Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself
If you try to sprint an entire marathon, you’ll hurt yourself. Systems can be stressed for short periods, but they burn out much more quickly if we overdo it. ~ The problems with flat out
Learn more: Small Move, Big Change
Only seeing where you’ve been is a terrible way to figure out where to go. But it’s really unsafe to go forward with no idea of what came before. ~ The rear view mirror
Learn more: Didn’t See That Coming
Possibility is wherever we look for it. ~ “Home is wherever my cello is”
Learn more: The Serendipity Mindset
Smooth might not be the goal. ~ Sanding off all the edges
Learn more: Stretch
The best way to win a short-term game is to bet it all on one strategy. Someone is going to get lucky and it might be you. But we rarely thrive in the long run if we persist in playing a series of short-term games. ~ “But what if it doesn’t work?”
Learn more: The Pursuit of Excellence
The goal might not be to be the biggest. The goal might be to achieve your goals. ~ My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Learn more: You Do You
The status quo might not be ideal, but if we’re afraid of change, if we focus on the costs of doing the work to make things better, it’s tempting to simply stay still. ~ Arguing for inaction
Learn more: Master of Change
Things decay unless we persistently work to support them. ~ The explosion
Learn more: Never Finished
Today is a good day to remember that better is possible, and that we shouldn’t wait for the problem to become easy or fade away. ~ Can’t wait
Learn more: Awaken Your Genius
We can influence the future, but we can’t pretend it doesn’t exist. ~ When the future finds us
Learn more: Your Future Self
We need a goal. But the more specific and measurable, the better. ~ Grandiosity as a form of hiding
Learn more: Goals
When we create the conditions for supported tension–the feeling of ‘this might not work’–we give people the chance to grow. ~ Appropriate tension
Learn more: The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth
When we’re in the liminal space between now and what is about to come, we’re fully alive. ~ The next one
Learn more: The Pivot Year
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