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Spring into action because of your finitude. That’s how enduring legacies are born and remain alive long after you are gone.

If you have but one goal in life, let it be this: How can I help?

Your mind is a hotbed for creating magic. It can, in a very crude sense of the word, create a caricature of that which you most desire and help you recreate it in full as your base reality.

Bringing together a static group of individuals and expecting them to interact successfully and efficiently towards achieving any goals or business objectives is a fool’s errand. It takes time, effort, and a firmly distributed leadership and compelling direction to integrate their diverse backgrounds, knowledge base, expertise and to artfully leverage it to create a team that delivers results and delights customers.

We rise and fall by our ability to regulate—and in so doing, manipulate—our mentality.

It’s okay to let reality sink in so long as you do not drown yourself in it.

Care about what a little sun will do to your complexion, and you will forever be a prisoner of the sun.

What life would you live if the life you live is lifeless?

If you have but one goal in life, let it be this: How can I help?

Empathy is not a skill set you acquire by watching a damn YouTube video. It is demanding work. And to show it, you must give your all. Attention. Time. Energy.

Don’t worry about over-communicating. In life, in business, or in any human relations, you will not lose any points for over-communicating. But you could lose a lot if you don’t communicate enough.

We live at a time where we are so self-focused and self-promoting that we think that helping others is somehow beneath us or put our own prospects at a disadvantage. It is not and it does not.

Choose to make today your most grateful day yet. For there’s power—and I mean real, raw, and life-changing power—in being cognizant of and appreciating the little things. Things others take for granted.

If you look carefully enough, you’ll see beauty radiating in the often-unremarkable sunbeam. And if you listen intently enough, you’ll hear music emanating from the song of birds and the murmur of trees. And if you concentrate keenly enough, you’ll observe patterns—discernible patterns—as the odd cricket stridulates from its great hiding place.

Those ups and downs in your life? Those ebbs and flows of your emotions? It happened to you for a reason. That’s what made you “you” in your own unique way. That’s what made you “whole” in your broken way.

We live at a time where we are so self-focused and self-promoting that we think that helping others is somehow beneath us or put our own prospects at a disadvantage. It is not and it does not.

I have no question that I can create magic. But I do not count on it.

In highly fluid, VUCA situations like the pandemic we are in right now, companies who can find innovative ways to keep up with and stay ahead of shifts in stakeholder behavior will be the winners. Companies that hurry back to old ways of doing things will perish in their misguided insistence on maintaining the status quo.

Together is a powerful phenomenon. Put it to good use.

Can I hack my mind to overcome a seemingly insurmountable goal? Can I visualize success and will it into existence?

What life would you live if the life you live is lifeless?

Pain + Complaining = Misery

Doesn’t your heart become lighter when you realize that in order for you to grow within, you must first learn to grow without?

As soon as you realize you are lost, laugh at yourself.

What would life be like if we stopped encumbering ourselves in meaningless endeavors?

Athif Ibrahim Delivering a Speech at the Learning and Development Conference 2023 by MAHRP

The Transformative Power of Mentorship

January 18, 2024

How one man saved me from a dead-end job and career suicide, and how the guided wisdom of a handful of mentors helped me step out of my comfort zone, embrace my fears by facing them head-on, and propelled me to a national platform

Uncommonly thought-provoking stuff.

Thoughts, figurings, and meaning-making disguised as flowery prose and borderline poetry.

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QUOTES

A catalogue of stuff I have said (read: written) over the years.

II

POEMS

My (sometimes clumsy) attempts at wordplay.

III

SHORT POSTS

Quick takes on stuff I am thinking about in my daily life.

IV

ARTICLES

Deep dives into stuff I am passionate about.

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