Create The Future

and they are yours,” as Stephen Covey so accurately points out. Hugh MacLeod, on his amazing blog, Gaping Void (please subscribe to his blog updates, seriously, he’s amazing . . . ), offers us the following business-card art (clicking the image makes it bigger):                     What…

“Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.” – Thomas Paine And the enemy’s greatest ally are the lies we tell ourselves. When we keep our promises, to ourselves, the internal battle fades to nothing.

Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. – Vida Scudder I offer this for your contemplation. A mentor of mine is a big fan of “creation.” Meaning, it’s better to be creating than anything else. Not the sort of “creativity” that we so…

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson This quote is rightfully at the top of the card, and, I believe most important. Without the right mindset nothing is possible, and with the right…

“No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.” – Brian Tracy (Just about) Anything you want to do has…

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. – Josh Billings Life is perfect. “Perfect” in the sense that everything happens because of the choices each of us makes, and the combination and accumulation of all of our choices. Things are perfect because they cannot be any other way….