Author: Bob Riding

Rattle the cage  (Avicii) Slam the door. Keep flipping the switch to make every day more. Life’s short, so make sure that today, and every day, becomes the day you won’t forget.

The draft of your epitaph Would you want where you are, and what you’re doing today, to be the key themes recorded on your epitaph? If not, what’s on your list?  And if you think you need a better list, what needs to change with your priorities, what needs to change with how you use…

Better a clear mind than a tidy desk   Those who rise to excellence are the ones who have learned to create within chaos. Those who resist the notion that life must be neat and tidy to accomplish and achieve.   The compulsion for orderliness is the gateway to going nowhere special in a world…

Unpack Empty the bag.  Discard the complaints and whines and troubles carried.  Lighten the load. Too often we think we have problems, when, in fact, the problems have us.  That’s a choice. Let go.

Calm does not suit me. My OCD self loves life orderly; everything organized and in its place.  But I’m finding that random-crap-everywhere better energizes and motivates me. I’m finding that what I once saw as distraction can be reframed and repurposed into the adjacent possible. Chaos need not be avoided. Chaos can be embraced and…

Entitlement is a crutch   A focus on entitlement is an excuse to not be accountable. It’s a self-inflicted disease – the quiet fiction, lying with words and silence, building the barrier that gets in the way of becoming the best we can be.   Entitlement is the false hedge against feeling stuck and dull…