50 Lessons from God Is Always Hiring by Regina Brett

  1. When you don’t get what you want, you get something better—experience.
  2. Everything changes when you change.
  3. Burying your talents won’t make them grow.
  4. What they call you is up to them. What you answer to is up to you.
  5. In this drama of life, there are no small parts.
  6. Give others a second chance to make a first impression.
  7. Every job is as magical as you make it.
  8. There’s a time for everything but not always at the same time.
  9. Only you can determine your worth.
  10. Even the mistakes belong.
  11. If you’re going to doubt anything, doubt your doubts.
  12. Sometimes the job you want is the job you already have.
  13. Most of the time, the only person in your way is you.
  14. God is still speaking.
  15. Make gentle the life of this world.
  16. Sometimes your mission is revealed moment by moment.
  17. When things fall apart, they could actually be falling into place.
  18. When you fail, fail forward.
  19. Choice, not just chance, determines your destiny.
  20. It’s not about what you can do, but what God can do through you.
  21. Instead of trying to be the best in the world, be the best for the world.
  22. If you can help someone, do; if you can hurt someone, don’t.
  23. It’s important to know both your superpower and your kryptonite.
  24. God completes our work.
  25. Not everything that counts can be counted.
  26. Don’t confuse your work with your worth.
  27. Clear the path for the person who comes after you.
  28. Just because someone isn’t on your path doesn’t mean they’re lost.
  29. Expand your comfort zone to make others more comfortable.
  30. There’s no whining on the yacht.
  31. No one can drain you without your permission.
  32. There’s more to life than making it go faster.
  33. Instead of planning a better life, start living one.
  34. The world needs people who are fully alive.
  35. The best use of your life is to love.
  36. To find out who you are, let go of who you aren’t.
  37. Align yourself first, then take action.
  38. The most important boss to answer to is the small, still voice within.
  39. Power is an inside job.
  40. It’s up to you to launch your life.
  41. Things don’t happen to you, they happen for you and for others.
  42. Don’t die with your music in you.
  43. Nothing you want is upstream, so stop struggling.
  44. Create a pocket of greatness right where you are.
  45. Even when you feel invisible, your work isn’t.
  46. You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.
  47. Be somebody’s hero.
  48. For networking to work, we all have to be the net.
  49. If you don’t want regrets at the end of your life, have no regrets at the end of each day.
  50. Find your grail. Be who God meant you to be, and you will set the world on fire.