📫 Journeys & Focus – Weekend Words #048

Powerful reminders for a smarter weekend

August 23, 2025

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Happy Saturday. Your weekend words are: focus and journeys.

“Most people focus on what’s wrong. The smart ones focus on what’s missing.”

— Nick Coniglio & Marnie Stockman, The Business of You

Read our full book spotlight here. The book has been called “a must read for every high school and college student.”

“The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.”

— Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel

More from the author in our word of the week: Peripatetic

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