A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. – B. F. Skinner
Where do you think you’ve “failed?”
Have you given up on “that?”
What if you took what you learned and began again, more intelligently?
What if you didn’t stop trying?
86,400 seconds in a day. 10, 080 minutes in a week. ~730 hours in an average month. We all have same amount of time. Time, while relative in its experience, is constant in its duration. There is no adding time. Or slowing it down when we need more. Time is a constant. It is unmanageable…
I had toyed with the idea of making the first post on this blog about an idea, or a strategy. The key thing, the most important thing one needs to know and practice to lead an authentic, effective and purposeful life. But I thought better of that. For two reasons really: 1) I was having…
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance. – Goethe When you’re dreaming, musing, formulating the future, choosing from amazing possibility . . . be enthusiastic. Let your imagination run wild. Many have said there is nothing you can conceive that you can’t achieve. It’s true….
Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is. – Publilius Syrus Language is everything to our lives. How we talk about who we are, what we want and what we get is so, so important. The question is: how is your speech? Do you build yourself up, or tear…
That might seem like an odd title, or perhaps a not very helpful one. But it will soon make sense. A mentor of mine sent me a message that contained the following line: If I am on the wrong road it doesn’t matter how good I get at speeding down the road. It’s the wrong…
It’s “interesting” how some people just don’t understand how mortgage rates work. There’s a train of thought that says: “as the Fed lowers interest rates mortgage rates will come down.” That’s just not so. The Fed only controls the Fed Funds Rate, which does impact floating rate instruments, like, say, credit cards and high-yield savings…