It isn’t where you came from; it’s where you’re going that counts. – Ella Fitzgerald
The past is useful as a textbook.
Something to review on occasion to learn and grow from, but it’s no where to live.
It’s certainly no place to worry about.
What matters is where you’re going.
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Where are you going?
Do you know?
Do you have a plan for your life?
If you don’t, who knows where you’ll end up?
As we learn in the Zen philosophy, when you learn to “let go” of problems instead of resisting with all your might, your life will begin to flow. – Richard Carlson Does a drop of water struggle to get to the ocean, or stay in a particular spot in a stream? Of course not. Water goes…
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…
Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know. – Pema Chodron That which we resist, persists. What keeps coming up for you? “Causing you*” persistent, or recurring, or even occasional, angst, frustration, upset, overwhelm, anger or sadness? What in you must evolve to solve, or better yet make irrelevant, this…
In a way, life – and success – is simple. When you’re clear about what you want – and it’s what you deeply, truly, authentically, want – and you have a flexible, iterative and properly supported learning process for moving towards your goals* all you need do is the work. The day-in/day-out work. And that is easy enough if…
If the unexamined life is not worth living, . . . it’s equally true that the unlived life is not worth examining. – Parker Palmer This quote pretty much speaks for itself. Yes, we must examine our lives, and ourselves, continually throughout our lives, but that’s only half of what’s necessary. We must have a…
Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination. – Grace…