Truly Giving

If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprise are built from the ground up. – Lou Gerstner The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small…

This Friday’s external resource is not a TED Talk, but instead from Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge blog. In a very interesting post Francesca Gino talks about how and why we get side-tracked. Why, despite out best efforts, we don’t follow though as we plan, or sometimes, not at all. Click here to read the post.

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. – Michael Jordan What do you expect of yourself? Ask yourself that each morning, each week and every quarter – that’s where great things come from.

If being hard on yourself was going to work, it would have worked by now. – Jamie Smart This reminds of something I’ve heard: if you talked to other people the way you (sometimes) talk to your self, you’d have no friends. Sometimes people think that if they’re easy on themselves they won’t accomplish anything. That…

Good is not good where better is expected. – Thomas Fuller Good is often all we strive for. Or, more accurately, what we often settle for. But good isn’t good when your standards are higher. When you decide that merely “good” isn’t enough, your life will transform. But you must make that decision for yourself – no one…

You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good. – Jerry West If you only do things you feel like, you won’t make much progress. You’ll be lucky to “tread water.” That might be okay for some people, but is it for you? When you’re committed…