Listen More Than You Speak

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint. – Emerson In every experience there are two questions one can ask: #1 – Is there a lesson in this? #2 – What’s the lesson in this? Just asking Question One is a great step. A wonderful sign of willingness. Asking Question Two is what all happy,…

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. – Og Mandino Everybody notices the big successes and the epic failures, but few recognize that both are made of myriad choices and non-choices, things you do and don’t do. Though it might seem it, life is not a smattering of resolutions, it…

“Successful people are simply those with successful habits.” – Brian Tracy And – conversely – unsuccessful people are those with unsuccessful habits. It is truly staggering how much of our lives are automatic. On the one hand, it is this “automation” that makes a great deal of progress and ease possible. If we had to consider and…

Are you disaster-tolerant? (Do you have reserves?) This question is well-posed in Seth Godin’s blog post (here it is in its entirety): Not all disasters can be avoided. Not all disasters are fatal. If you accept these two truths, your approach to risk will change. If you build a disaster-tolerant nation or project or lifestyle,…

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it. – Sam Ewing Mr. Ewing offers an interesting formula. But could there be more? Or something different? Maybe: do your best, for the right people, in a way that matters to you and them and everyone will like it.  

The level to which your career or business develops will never be higher than the level of your personal development. If you want more success: more money, more time, more energy, you must develop yourself. *  *  * Believe it or not the title of this blog post was difficult for me to write. I am…