Risk-taking is not natural because taking risks exposes you to injury or loss. And who wants to gets injured or lose? But there is an old adage: “no risk, no reward.” Tis true. The bigger the risk, the bigger the reward. Perhaps your unhappiness with the rewards you are currently enjoying has everything to do with the risks that you are unwilling to take.
Read MoreSomething deep within us knows when we are around the type of people, doing the type of work, and functioning in the type of environment for which we were designed. All of us can “make something fit,” but it only results in delaying the inevitable conflicts and enormous frustrations that accompany knowing that you are out of place.
Read MoreTasha Eurich has written that self awareness “represents how clearly we see our own values, passions, aspirations, fit with our environment, reactions (including thoughts, feelings, behaviors, strengths, and weaknesses), and impact on others.”
Read MoreWhen life throws you a curve, don’t spend so much time trying to straighten it out that you miss the lesson it is designed to teach.
Read MoreFar too many of us win, and then carelessly, thoughtlessly, and recklessly throw away the stuff that helped us triumph—not recognizing that our next battle may not be a new battle, but an old battle in new clothes.
Read MoreDon’t be so quick to disregard, diminish, dismiss or decamp from your current environment. All of us are tempted to think if we “traded places” with someone our lives would improve. But perhaps you are standing on Holy Ground.
Read MoreGod wants us to build our lives on fundamentals. When you understand the fundamentals you are aware of and understand the basic rules, principles, and laws that undergird something. To know the fundamentals means I know why something works and how it works—and to understand it so well, that I can explain it to a child. Building our finances, our families, and our faith on the fundamentals is the key to maturity
Read MoreOne 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.
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