Link Love 2/24/12

[Every Friday, I share my favorite reads from around the blogosphere over the past week.  Enjoy!]

You Don’t Have It In You

You’ve never hustled.

You didn’t grow up with the right opportunities.

You think growing up with opportunities matters.

You don’t know how to take currently available opportunities.

You complain a lot.

You don’t see the big picture.

You might have a map, but you’re really bad with directions.

You expect handholding. “Oh if only someone would show me how …
~Karol Gajda at Truth. No Consequences.

How to talk to a million people on TV
It could be starting a business, going to college, or traveling around the world….Here is how my dad and I answer when life asks us the question, “Have you ever done that before?”

“No, but I’m about to.”

It’s really that simple.

Have you ever been on national television? No, but I’m about to.

Have you ever written a book of poems before? No, but I’m about to.

Have you ever biked across the country for charity? No, but I’m about to.

And then you do. That’s it.
~Jon Acuff

Be able to walk away
In any kind of negotiation, your ability to walk away is your strongest tool.

…It’s also true of anything in life.
~Leo Babauta at mnmlist

Top 5 Regrets Of The Dying—What It Can Teach Us About Living
It is regret that can make life so unfulfilling. Those little moments in life – the mistakes, the omissions, the inactions – they add up over time, and eventually they define us. I do not want to be defined by my regret, and I am sure that you feel the same.

So today, I want to explore five ways in which you can avoid regret, by reflecting upon the most common regrets of the dying.
~Tom Ewer at Leaving Work Behind

3 Freedoms You’re Probably Taking For Granted
Freedom is a tricky thing. Once you have a bit, you want more. But the more you get, the greater the risk you run of not actually using it.

If you’re reading this article from your own computer on your own time, then you’re freer than nearly everyone in the world who’s come before you. You may even have more choices to make about your life than you know what to do with right now.

And with that freedom also comes an incredible responsibility. When you can’t blame anyone else for your decisions, it becomes a lot riskier to make them on your own.

If you’re not ready to cope with that, then you might just neglect them.
~Tyler Tervooren at Advanced Riskology

3 types of goals you need to murder today
If you’ve got some fake goals squatting on your list, don’t be nice to them. Don’t let them tell you why you’ll maybe, eventually, really care about them or how they’re great goals.

Kill them. Kill them now. Kill them with fire.

Your time is too valuable to be spent pursuing something that doesn’t matter.
~Jon Acuff

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