One of the most common sources of discouragement is our unfortunate tendency to want to get our “superman on” and ascend to the pinnacle of whatever mountain we are trying to climb in a single bound. We want to lose 30 pounds in a week, earn a million dollars in a month, and become the boss in a year. But while we must think big, in order to achieve lasting success we must start small.
Read MoreMany of us can’t possess our promised land because we can’t describe what it looks like! If you can’t describe what your promised land looks like how will you know when you have arrived in it?
Read MoreOne of the most important decisions we all must make is to resist the deeply embedded human tendency to evaluate people, opportunities and situation based on what they look like. That tendency is probably responsible for the overwhelming majority of mistakes that most of us have made. That tendency us also probable responsible for the overwhelming majority of blessings we have missed!
Read MoreTo be successful, we must all learn how to make adjustments. Adjustments are often necessary because what we are doing is not working.
Read MoreSecond order thinking is a mental model that is employed by great decision makers that encourages you to think about the consequences of what happens after you make a decision.
Read MoreA parasite is an organism that lives on or off of another organism. The organism that the parasites lives on or off is called the host. The parasite usually has no internal molecular structure, but adapts itself to the host, and gets it food from or the expense of the host. The parasite gradually reduces the fitness of the host, until is damaged and can no longer provide the sustenance that the parasite requires.
Read MoreToughness is an often ignored and frequently undervalued element in the formula for enduring success. We tend to overemphasize talent and underemphasize toughness.
Read MoreThe key takeaway from this apparently insignificant detail in this grand tale is that history-makers, game changers, and opinion-shapers tend to wake up very early.
Read MoreAll of us have areas of focus, matters that we concentrate on, and domains of expertise in which we specialize. In some ways, life is like college: we can’t focus on everything; we can’t go everywhere; we can’t do everything. All of us have to major in something. And whatever we decide to focus on will determine the quality and the impact of or lives.
Read MoreMoving without the ball not only is a crucial skill in basketball. It is also a crucial skill in life. Once you stop moving the enemy can stop playing defense. We must all learn how to get open, even if we don’t have the ball.
Read MoreSometimes, the people who you seek counsel from about an idea or a course of action (their success and friendship notwithstanding), simply do not have your passion, creativity, or vision, and their advice is birthed from envy, misunderstanding, or fear.
Read MoreAnd in the story of our lives, far too may of us choose to play the victim—to believe and behave as if we don’t have the ability to make things happen. But all of us have a measure of freedom, creativity and capacity not simply to be pushed around by our circumstances, but to play an active role in shaping the destiny that we desire.
Read MoreWhat is hard for you to talk about? Whatever it is, you must find a way to express it. “Meaning is elicited through verbalization,” and unless we can express in words the deep and cutting pains of our hearts, we will remain their prisoner.
Read MoreFar too many people labor under the illusion that change can be made without any cost. Far too many people believe that we can “change the world without changing ourselves.” But progress always has a price tag, transformation never goes on sale, and change is expensive.
Read MoreLet’s spend more time investigating what we want, and why we want it. Often, what we want is birthed from envy; or anger, or bitterness, or comparison, or some ghost from our past to whom we are trying to prove a point that isn’t worth proving.
Read MoreYou must ask yourself “do I have the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual capacity to manage what I am asking for?”
Read MoreThe word resist in Greek means to “stand against.” To resist means to take a stand, to declare opposition, to demonstrate by word and deed one’s refusal to cooperate with conditions that attempt to define your humanity, limit your aspirations, or crush your spirit.
Read MoreThe word “perspective” derives from the science of optics. The science of optics explores how we see. So perspective is how one perceives, how one sees. It is one of the essential aptitudes of any artist because to design a painting, or a building, or a car, requires a sense of proportion. Perspective requires you to understand how the various component of an object all fit together and relate to one another.
Read MoreAll of us have a price, whether we know it or not. My question for you today is, What’s your price? What could someone offer you to lower your standards? Your ideals? Your integrity
Read MoreBut as the poet Edgar Guest reminded us, “we must stick to the figth when we are hardest. its when things seems worst that we must not quit.” We have to learn how to keep going after life hits us, It’s called Yards after contact.
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