Lessons With A King

I have a few mantras but acceptance is one I need to figure out a mantra for because acceptance is the key to a very simple, easy, stress-free life. When you learn the power of acceptance and practice it, a lot of beautiful things happen. When you accept something, you can start working to be better or to fix what needs fixing. Acceptance is only step one, though, so don’t forget that a lot of work is required after you’ve accepted things.

PROMPT: Mention three things you’ve accepted. Why do you accept them?

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Not all feedback is good feedback. We need to understand and accept this. My approach to feedback is to listen to it all but if you give me feedback without a reason then that gets discarded right away. If you say my stuff is crap without reason, well, how can I get it better?

PROMPT: How do you decide what feedback to keep and which to discard?

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If we will fail at some point, we should make plans to fail forward. That is failing in such a way we are not broken but we learn the lesson and carry it forward. We move forward better than we were before that failure. That is a wonderful mindset to have and one we should all cultivate considering that at some point, we will fail.

PROMPT: When was the last failure you learned from? What was the failure? What was the lesson?

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Striving for perfection isn’t necessarily a bad thing. However, it can get you caught up in a cycle that will run you down. Don’t get me wrong, always aim for an amazing outcome but don’t beat yourself if you mess up because that’s pretty much baked in. As human beings, we are fallible so we will mess up. What matters is what we do after the mess up. Will you lie down and sulk or will you pick yourself up, clean up the mess, learn the lesson and move on? Up to you.

PROMPT: What was your last mess up? How did you handle it?

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Memento Mori is Latin for ‘remember that you [have to] die’. As human beings, we are pretty much guaranteed death. We might not know when or how but we know that death will come. No that isn’t being morbid, it’s just the fact. I do believe it is a fact that can help put things in perspective when we are about to worry over mundane things. At that moment life might end and all you were doing was bickering over what doesn’t really matter. We should stay focused on important things in life and be thankful for the now by using it to help others. I believe we are here to help each other till we are not here anymore so we should do just that.

PROMPT: If you were going to die today, what would you want to be remembered for? Why?

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