The Secret to Contentment

I’m reading what I believe is a great book. How do I know? How can I know when I’m not done yet? Because I’ve already received a great idea. A powerful new way of seeing something. What’s that “something?” There’s a difference between serving and pleasing. One brings forth your best, and creates good for…

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future. – Brian Tracy How much do you invest in your personal development? If you don’t know, it’s not enough. If you don’t invest anything, well, . . . .

“I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success, but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.” – Madeleine Albright I believe it was Einstein who said: there are two ways to live, as if everything is a miracle and as if…

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance. – Goethe When you’re dreaming, musing, formulating the future, choosing from amazing possibility . . . be enthusiastic. Let your imagination run wild. Many have said there is nothing you can conceive that you can’t achieve. It’s true….

Have blind faith, just don’t have false hope – Tony Brown I was watching HBO’s Sonic Highways and something one of the interviewees said struck me. Tony Brown is a keyboard player and knows a thing or two about long odds and perseverance. Anyone who has “made it” (and that’s a relative term, of course) in…

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. – Elbert Hubbard This sentiment really captures who doesn’t get coaching – both literally and figuratively. People who don’t get coaching, figuratively, wonder what the fuss is about. “Coaching? I don’t play a sport, why would I need a coach?…