Obstacle or Opportunity?

Enjoy all you have while pursuing all you want. – Jim Rohn There’s no point in pursuing anything if you can’t enjoy everything.* Be where you are and enjoy everything – even the “bad” stuff (it’s there for a reason, and it’ll keep showing up until you figure out why . . . ). ***** *…

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life. – Edwin Markham We all know what the Golden Rule asks of us: do unto others as we have them do unto us. It’s (pretty) good advice. But there’s something better. The Platinum Rule: do unto others as they would want…

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. – Saint Basil People notice what you do. Sure, you can hurt people with words, or even uplift them for a time with what…

This above all – to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as night follows day, thou canst not then be false to any man. – William Shakespeare We’ve all heard the first part of this quote, but rarely is the rest of it mentioned. Pity. Because as important as it is to be…

I was listening to Tripp Lanier interview Mark Divine on his New Man podcast (good stuff… ) and Commander Divine talked about how life is sort of like business, or the economy, in that it’s a progression, over time, with peaks and valleys. Life – but certainly not a successful, satisfying, joyful, useful life – can be linear…

I’m reading what I believe is a great book. How do I know? How can I know when I’m not done yet? Because I’ve already received a great idea. A powerful new way of seeing something. What’s that “something?” There’s a difference between serving and pleasing. One brings forth your best, and creates good for…