Tim Tamashiro

If you experience life as a meandering, drunken stumble that leads you forward, left and right, then backward, remain vigilant and keep a lookout for the signals in your life. They will provide you with direction.

when you work on your strengths, you kick ass. When you focus on your weaknesses, you kick rocks.

Everyone has special gifts. Your gifts are the actions that feel easiest for you to do.

Your gifts are innate talents unique to you, but they might also seem irrational to explore.

Society tells us that it’s better to fix our weaknesses instead of focusing on our strengths. Society is wrong.

When you put energy into developing your strengths, your growth is exponential. When you focus on trying to fix your weaknesses, your growth is slow, uninspired, and only modestly incremental.

focusing every day as an adult on financial progress is “the most absurd, stupid way of going through a life, but we are all doing it.”

Let Serendipity Be Your Copilot

Like life itself, parenthood does not come with an owner’s manual. As much as children believe that parents know what they are doing, most days of parenthood are just controlled, well-intentioned winging it.

“Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us.”