Knowledge is Not Power

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 . . . ). ***** *…

Seth Godin wants to know: Which of the four are getting in the way? You don’t know what to do You don’t know how to do it You don’t have the authority or the resources to do it You’re afraid Once you figure out what’s getting in the way, it’s far easier to find the…

“The key is not to prioritize what is on the schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen Covey The critical bit here is you must know your priorities to schedule them. Not: what’s demanding your attention from moment-to-moment, or the pressing thing, or what you want right now because you think it’ll make you…

One key to living well is to understand the distinctions of life. Distinctions are often small shifts in perception that yield great differences in outcome. Think of them like forks in the road, the further you go down one path, the greater difference. *  *  * In any given moment there may not seem to a…

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. – Unknown It’s so easy to get used to the abundance and opportunity we enjoy here in the United States. So easy to forget that, even though our political system is far from perfect,…

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. – Ancient Chinese Proverb As a coach this is something that I occasionally encounter: working with a client who says they want to change, but doesn’t take action (or takes incomplete action). It’s important to understand that change is hard. We are genetically programmed to avoid…