Wisdom and Virtue

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it. – Sam Ewing Mr. Ewing offers an interesting formula. But could there be more? Or something different? Maybe: do your best, for the right people, in a way that matters to you and them and everyone will like it.  

I don’t normally include whole posts from other folks, but when I do, it’s generally from Seth Godin (Steve Chandler being the other common exception) (and this one is short… ). The below reminds me of Carol Dweck‘s amazing work on Mindset. According to Dweck there are some who believe that the gifts and talents…

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. – Michael Altshuler Actually, there is no bad news. You’re in charge. You always have been, just sometimes you haven’t been at your best. But you can do better. You can always do better. You can create a flight plan for your…

At the risk of shameless self-promotion, here is a post on why coaching is a powerful way to create authentic and lasting change: Who you hang out with matters. (The right coach is a wonderful person to “hang out” with once a week or so, and will challenge you to upgrade your associations if necessary.) What…

“In absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia, until we ultimately become enslaved by it.” – Robert Heinlein How do you decide what you are going to do each day? The better, more relevant, useful question is do you decide what to do each day? Few people do. Decide what…

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. – Wayne Dyer