Neil Pasricha blogged 1000awesomethings after his marriage fell apart.
After the blog’s success, it became a book - The Book of Awesome.
A couple of books later, Neil Pasricha wrote the book - You Are Awesome.
This book is a collection of Nine life lessons that have served Neil Pasricha well.
Here are three of those life lessons that genuinely resonated with me -
Pasricha shares the story of his Mom’s immigration to Canada as a beautiful way to illustrate the concept of not being a defeatist. She had to rebuild relationships from scratch in a new country. Rather than view her situation as the end state, she considered it as an evolving situation - TBD - to be determined - a dot dot dot.
She kept her options open.
Sometimes the hardest thing to do is simply making the decision to keep going.
The author shares his approach to dealing with situations where he is stumped -
Adding the word Yet to any sentence that begins with “I cannot.”
I cannot do XYZ … yet