Another great one! I'm really liking how these notes can work together. i'm not whether this was intended but it working for me! I was struck by "Be willing to have it so". This has been said over and over again by many over the years but when i put it beside "don't take it personally" from the 4 agreements, it made it that much easier and doable. I also like the rest before you are tired...I used to go home from work in the afternoons when i worked for a large corporation and they "didn't get it". My co-workers would raz me about it, but otherwise i and many of them would sit there being very unproductive...i love naps and am happy to have this affirmed. So i will "live a day-tight compartment" today, sprinkled with a nap, accept what is so, make some decisions and have a great day! And...I wish the rest of you a fabulous day today!

This is one of the books I haven't read even though it has been around for ages!! I found it dove-tailed very nicely from the 4 Agreements. I was struck very strongly by 2 of the BIG ideas: the first in being respons-able and the idea of being a victim. It wasn't so much about being a victim to other's actions but to MYSELF. I was struck by how often i seem to be the first to self-criticize and how debilitating that can be to be proactive and effective. The second thing that really struck me was the quadrants and being able to place my time into these 4 boxes. It would seem i spend a lot of time in quadrant 4 which inevitably leads me to quadrant 1 to try to DO all of the things i have put off doing 'cause i was spending so much time in quadrant 2! Anyways, i'm going to put these couple of things into practice today: 1. Create some space between the stimulus and the response (and use the 4 agreement in this space) and 2 spend a little more time in quadrant 3!

I'm really enjoying all the responses - thanks everyone for posting...and at the beginning of day 2 am feeling more inspired and focused!!!