Do You Get On?

Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. – Roald Dahl You must believe, first. And, to the extent you believe, you will have energy, purpose and staying power. But…

I am trying something different on Fridays: I am going to offer an external resource for your education and evolution. I imagine most of these offerings will be videos and may require you to set aside a bit of time to view (like when you have your coffee on Saturday morning… ). The inaugural offering…

“Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.” – Earl Nightingale I written about this before and it’s no less true now. Despite my sometimes best-efforts to deny this truth, I know we are all connected. What we create is simultaneously completely our own and…

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…

I was recently thinking about the nature of “success.” Of course, it’s a process and a journey and not a “completion” or a destination, but how can we better understand the process, the journey of “success?” Well, I came up with three phases, each marked by three key ideas: Responsibility, Maturity and Wisdom. *  *…

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein Success is an abstract, relative term. It’s a made-up thing, it doesn’t actually exist anywhere, like “time.” (You can show me a clock, but you can’t show me time . . . .) And it…