Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. – Coco Chanel
The only time you should beat on a wall is if you are (hitting it in such a way that you’re) making a hole for a door.
Feebly pounding on or flailing against a wall in the hopes it will become a door only wastes your time (and, if walls were so inclined, annoys the wall).
I recently read a powerful story, recounted by Earl Nightingale, about a preacher traveling the countryside and a beautiful farm: There’s a classic old story about a conversation between a farmer and a preacher. The story goes that the preacher was driving down a country road when he came upon the most beautiful farm he’d…
“Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.” – Jim Rohn The simple fact is if you don’t develop yourself over time you’ll fall behind. And, if all you do is develop yourself for your current position, you’ll soon find yourself well equipped for a job that no longer exists (to inelegantly paraphrase…
Everyone wants to be able to retire with financial security and peace-of-mind. Most people think they need a financial advisor to do so. In this (what turned out to be a long) post I will lay out the basic formula for retiring with enough, and how some types of financial advisors could leave us with…
When I look at the kids training today… I can tell which ones are going to do well. It’s not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it’s the kids who fall the most, and keep pulling themselves up and trying again. – Michelle Kwan If you…
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip. – Winston Churchill Sure, this quote is dripping with sarcasm and is both clever and funny, but it raises an important point (by way of absurdity . . . ): How tactful are you?…
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. – W. Somerset Maugham I said “money” in the title because I think that’s the key factor at play. One of my limiting beliefs about…