Don’t let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do. Sam Altman 1985 – Could something small and simple be blocking your success? Most people believe there are major roadblocks standing between them and their ideal life. I don’t agree. In fact, I think that, more … [ Continue Reading ]
Weekly Lessons
Lessons in fear from the whaling ship Essex
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius 121 – 180 AD On August 12, 1819, the whale ship Essex and its crew … [ Continue Reading ]
The ultimate success tool
Your choices will empower or enslave you. And which you choose is up to you. Roger Allen Most people I work with are continually striving to achieve more. They’re constantly on the lookout for better or easier ways to accomplish things. If you can relate to that mindset, then let … [ Continue Reading ]
Accidental shoplifting
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Socrates 470 B.C. – 399 B.C. One of my Saturday morning rituals is to head to Target to do household shopping. Gallon jugs of bottled water are among the staples I buy … [ Continue Reading ]
Want better answers? Improve your problem-solving skills
It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. Abraham Harold Maslow 1908 – 1970 From time to time, everyone has problems. No matter how successful you think someone is, they still encounter setbacks. Most people take a … [ Continue Reading ]
Teaching penguins to fly
You possess strengths you might not realize you have. Find the right one. Use it. Epictetus 55 – 135 A.D. There’s an interesting story about penguins that illustrates a profound lesson. As the story goes, a group of penguins got wind of the fact that inspirational and motivational speakers were … [ Continue Reading ]
What are you missing?
There are none so blind as those who will not see. English Proverb During the commuter rush hour on a morning in January 2007, a young man stood playing a violin in one of Washington D.C.’s metro stations. Roughly 2,000 people passed him as they entered the station. Most barely … [ Continue Reading ]
Snoopy and the snowman
For what is a man profited, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Matthew 16:26 This story is about Snoopy, the beagle in the Peanuts cartoon. In case you aren’t familiar with Peanuts, it’s about the lives of a group of young children, maybe six … [ Continue Reading ]
Can knowing the answer hurt you?
The questions you ask yourself determine the results you get in life. Keith Cameron Smith In school, we were taught to know the answer. And we were constantly checked to see if we knew the answer. There were periodic tests, exams, pop quizzes and, most dreaded of all, occasions when … [ Continue Reading ]
Want to accomplish more?
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. William James 1842 – 1910 One of the major complaints I hear from people is that they can never get their to-do list whittled down. They have great intentions, but somehow time slips away and they never … [ Continue Reading ]