Willing

by Tara Agacayak on October 5, 2011

Footprint by Morgan Queen

It’s a big leap from where you are to where you’re going.

Miles.

Hundreds of miles.

Thousands of miles.

And you don’t know the way, only the destination.

It’s OK though.

You don’t have to know how you’re going to get there. You only have to be willing to take each next step.

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First

by Tara Agacayak on September 29, 2011

Playing with light #1 (My lightheart flower) by epicture

It’s not easy going first.

You have to see what other people don’t see.

You have to believe that you’ll get where you’re going even though there’s no path paved out in front of you.

No light shining the way save for the light of your internal vision guiding you along.

And you have to believe twice as hard as the people who are standing behind you.

Going first is scary and lonely and full of missteps.

However, the rewards can be satisfying not only because you get to prove what you’ve believed all along, but also because you get to light the way for others.

 

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Charity

Happy Birthday, Me by Matt Clark

What do you think is more valuable? The $20 you earned doing your chores, or the $20 your grandmother put in your birthday card? They have the same face value, but which one feels like it’s worth more? Which one do you think more carefully about how you’ll spend? Maybe that’s why some lottery winners [...]

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Mission

Tara Agacayak at Carmel Beach in California

When I moved to Turkey ten years ago I’d never planned to stay. We came for my husband’s job and I vowed that as soon as we could go back to California, we would. But it didn’t take long for me to fall in love with Türkiye. Since then I’ve been suspended between two worlds. [...]

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Unbound

GlobalNiche.net

There is a fascinating article in this discussion that is a reminder of the possibilities that lie ahead: “We needn’t be working in buildings 9-5,” it states, “when we can access everything in the cloud and connect with anyone, anytime. If businesses let go of the structures and time zones, we open our doors to [...]

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Reflection

Moonlight Reflected off the Sea by Dominic Alves

I’m in the process of writing a business plan for an upcoming project with a Turkish partner. She’s been really pleased with what I’ve written so far. “But I didn’t do it myself,” I told her, “I’ve had lots of guidance.” There are tons of business resources out there in our collective-consciousness-of-an-Internet, but the best [...]

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Try

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In the course of teaching English in Turkey, one of the lessons that came up was how to teach the verb “to try”. There are several ways this can be used: To put something to the test. To learn something new. To make an attempt. Trying expresses the ideas of experimentation, learning and discovery – [...]

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Better

http://www.taraagacayak.com/better.html

Kaizen is a philosophy of improvement. It analyzes processes and suggests ways to make them better. As I understand it, Kaizen assumes that perfection can never be reached. We can always develop. We can always improve. We can always evolve what we’re doing to be better and better versions of ourselves. We adapt. You can’t [...]

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Invest

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Earlier this year I had two things on my desk. The first was a client proposal I was writing and the other was a class I was considering taking. I knew the class would be good for me. It would fill in some of the gaps in my business training and connect me with other [...]

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Excuses

MOMENT #2 by alainalele What is the biggest excuse holding you back from doing what you really want? Be aware that it may not actually look like an excuse.Instead it might look like:DistractionProcrastinationConfusionChaosIllnessAllergiesHelpfulnessHabituationPhobiaIndecisionUncertaintyCharity Addiction __________ (fill in the blank)How do you know that it’s actually an excuse?Because it’s the same thing that comes up again [...]

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