No one can lift a one-ton boulder.
Anyone can lift a one-pound rock.
But no one is going to bother to move 2,000 rocks, unless they have a goal of moving a ton of stone.
That’s why we create big, seemingly unattainable, goals.
Because the only way we’ll move 2,000 stones is with a big goals.
And the only way to move a ton of rock is stone by stone.
To be actually trapped is to have no options, no choices, no possible outcomes other than the one you fear. Most of the time, when we think we’re trapped, we’re actually unhappy with the short-term consequences of making a choice. Make the choice, own the outcome and you can start in a new place. This…
Are you (just) getting by, doing what you need to do, or are you moving forward? Has your life been reduced to a series of tasks, appointments and ‘have-tos,’ or are you clear about what you want and how to accomplish your goals? What’s life for? Is it to just get by, or to do what…
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. – Jonas Salk We are made to love, to create, to work and toil and then recover, recharge and appreciate and begin again. The only way we get to begin again is to finish what we start. So, work hard, finish,…
Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable. – Zig Ziglar It can be hard to remember this at times. We can caught up in overwhelm and frustration and lose sight of our abilities. It is in these times that we must remind ourselves of how much we have already done. Of all…
The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled…
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill Napoleon Hill is a giant in the self-development canon. He is revered, and oft-quoted, by many. But many mis-understand – and un-duly dismiss – one of his more famous quotes. When Hill says anything we can conceive and believe, we can achieve, people scoff…