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“We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.” – Earl Nightingale No one is coming. No one is coming to rescue you, or make you do the work, or take the next step with your dream. No one can give you permission to…

“I’m a failure.” I failed. Things didn’t turn out exactly like I thought at the outset. I learned something about my goal and my choices along the way. There is no such thing as “failure;” everything produces results. I have examined my inputs (thoughts, beliefs, exclusions, inclusions, emotions, moods, choices and non-choices) and results. I…

I was reading a great article from Mark Manson wherein he introduces a Law. He calls it Manson’s Law of Avoidance and it goes as follows: The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid doing it. This is such a valuable thought and insight. It explains why we so often don’t do…

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things. – G. K. Chesterton *  *  * It wasn’t until I got to college that I really began to wake up to the idea that I didn’t know things. *  *  * As I progressed through college I – luckily – learned that…

Hope isn’t a strategy, but it is an awfully good tactic. – Seth Godin The above is from a short, but sweet, blog post. So many people think that because most of the things that are achieved are small, that small goals are the only ones that are realistic – the only ones worth pursuing. Wrong. That’s…

“Dream as if you’ll live forever.* Live as if you’ll die today.**” – James Dean Speaks for itself… (Keeping it short and sweet today.) * Sounds like something Kahlil Gibran might say. ** Sounds like something Buddha might say.