RIP: Wayne Dyer

You can do anything, but not everything. – David Allen But, you must choose. But, you must know what you truly want. Anything you truly want, you can do. You can create anything you want enough and understand enough. You have to want enough it to do the work. You have to understand enough it to…

Something just occurred to me: “What about all the folks that say they want to do X, or be better at Y or stop doing Z? They all say they want to change but complain it’s too hard, or they can change for a while, but eventually “slip.” The truth is that the “how” is easy when…

This week is the week of unwitting guest bloggers (i.e. where I blatantly rip off other people’s content because I’m too lazy to write my own stuff). Today I steal from one of the greats, Seth Godin: Turning passion on its head Instead of, “do what you love,” perhaps the more effective mantra for the…

What if what you’re good at doesn’t – really – matter? So often we take refuge, or more accurately, hide in the the things we’re good at. But what if those things are not what really matters, for us, individually? What if we hide in those talents to avoid the hard work of learning and growing? What if we’re…

There are two basic motivating forces:* fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot…

Sometimes someone else says it better than you ever can; with that in mind here’s a post from Seth Godin: Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most successful, the cutest or the one with the fastest time. Forgive…