Edition: January 23rd, 2022
Curated by the Knowledge Team of ICS Career GPS
- Excerpts from article by Robin Sharma
We all do our best to live peacefully, to salute the gifts in others, and to tread the earth with light footprints. Yet there are a number of things that we — if we’re sincerely interested in a life of success and soulfulness — should fiercely resist. And protest.
Here are 6 ‘anti-rules’ that will help you lead a life of success and soulfulness:
1. Be Anti-Average
- Who wants to follow the herd when it will only lead you off a cliff?
- Stand for higher standards than the crowd chooses.
- Abide by the wisest values (including honesty, courage, patience, understanding, mastery and kindness).
- Select activities that fuel your joy and accelerate your growth.
- Push work that is masterful. Exemplify possibility.
2. Be Anti-Superficial
- What an era we inhabit! 10 second videos of people dancing are consumed by millions, yet too many of the heroic books remain unread by most.
- Be a contrarian. Go deep versus really wide.
- Have rich conversations. Think interesting thoughts.
- Apply rigor and excellence and carefulness to all that you do.
- Be a ‘heavyweight’ in a culture gone ultra-light.
3. Be Anti-Cynical
- Dreams get done every day.
- Human beings have a gigantic capacity to accomplish the extraordinary.
- Each day carries with it a window into awe and wonder, if we choose to open it.
- So avoid the cynicism that too many good souls have allowed to cloud their sensibility to life’s wonderful beauty.
4. Be Anti-Injustice
- Life’s too short to tolerate any form of mistreatment and disrespect in your orbit.
- If you see someone being hurt, step up.
- Don’t allow anyone to dishonor the magic that is you.
- You are special, essential, and important to the world. Own it.
5. Be Anti-Interruption
- It’s become ever so easy to spent our limited days on earth in useless toil versus majestic flow.
- We are in a war: against distraction and trivial invasion.
- Turn off your devices for at least a few hours each day and for a full day each week.
- Work in quietude, on a big problem that will revolutionise the lives of those you serve.
- Live with greater silence, serenity and presence.
6. Be Anti-Fear
- In 2022, become super-brave.
- Beginning today, start doing more of the things you fear.
- Each time you do, you take back the power that you gave to it and grow more fearless.
- This is a practice. So the more you train on leaning into what terrifies you the better you’ll get at it.
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