A man who wants to do something will find a way; A man who doesn’t will find an excuse. – Stephen Dolley, Jr.
It matters less what the ultimate result is; only that one has started, and worked, and learned, and adapted, and finished “something.”
Or we can make up a story about why we can’t . . . .
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson You are responsible for what you think, what you feel and what you do. What you think, what you feel and what you do determines what you create, who you become and the legacy you leave. Just as important: your…
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. – Wayne Dyer
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle I am excited to write this post as…
In the spirit of a koan, I offer the following: We seem to be in mode where we (think we) need more than ourselves to be somebody. Is this true? Is this true for you? If it’s true, is it accurate? Is it helpful? Is it constructive? Is it… ? You. Are. Enough. (More than, actually……
Courage isn’t having the strength to go on — it is going on when you don’t have strength. – Napoleon Bonaparte Having the strength to go on is capacity. You either have it at any given moment, or you don’t. Want more capacity? Train… Whatever you’ll need when things get tough, develop greater amounts of that. Then…
I read and listen to a lot of self/personal development stuff. But all that reading and listening doesn’t amount to a hill-of-beans (speaking of which, has anyone ever seen an actual “hill-of-beans” and is one all that desirable?) without application. Information without application is interesting and sometimes entertaining, but it’s never transformative – it doesn’t change anyone…