Resolutions Are Crap

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. – William Ralph Inge To echo Inge’s brilliant sentiment, (I’ve often said:) worry is a prayer for what you don’t want. Focus on what you want. (Don’t know what you want? Figure it out. And then… yeah, you guessed it: focus on it.)

To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing. – Aristotle But what if you want to be something? What then… ? You must dare, in ways small and large. As Brene’ Brown would say: be vulnerable. As Shedd would say: ships are safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. Be…

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. – Abraham Maslow I would edit Maslow’s suggestion a bit and suggest that rather than (concerning ourselves with) “overcoming fear,” that we focus on its opposite: love. Choose growth…

What if what you’re good at doesn’t – really – matter? So often we take refuge, or more accurately, hide in the the things we’re good at. But what if those things are not what really matters, for us, individually? What if we hide in those talents to avoid the hard work of learning and growing? What if we’re…

I read a Early To Rise newsletter (penned by Craig Ballantyne) recently that really put into sharp focus something I’ve thought about, and had an inkling about, for a while now: how do we get the things we really want to accomplish done and have more freedom? Craig states: “The More Structure You Have In Your…

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein The idea that our language creates our world (each of our worlds… ) is very compelling for me. I have long said that humans are meaning-seeking and meaning-creating creatures. We must not only understand our world, but make sense of it,…