The First wealth is health. – Emerson
Without your health you cannot serve.
If you cannot serve you cannot deliver value.
If you cannot deliver value you cannot earn rewards.
Thus to earn anything – money, friendship, reciprocation, anything – you must focus on, and continually attend to, your health.
Your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health.
Without health you can do nothing.
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. – Omar Bradley I’m pretty sure that by stars Mr. Bradley means values and by passing ship lights he is referring to the vagaries of popular opinion and culture. If so, he’s right. What do you value? Are your values reflected…
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. – Michael Altshuler Actually, there is no bad news. You’re in charge. You always have been, just sometimes you haven’t been at your best. But you can do better. You can always do better. You can create a flight plan for your…
Not forgiving is sometimes a function of not trusting our ability to be strong and whole in the face of the thing or person we have forgiven. We are glad (eventually) for the realization that someone, or something, has harmed us and we want to be vigilant against future injury, or error. So we remain…
Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do. – Marilyn Vos Savant So many people are sad, or stressed, or frustrated, or down, or melancholy or aggravated, or . . . take your pick. But where do these modern emotions come from? From one place, and one place only: our thoughts. How we…
We have a biological imperative to be safe, whole and injury-free. All stimuli is evaluated through the filter of past experience against this imperative. We have a similar mental imperative. Our biological imperative is known as the Survival Instinct, the mental equivalent is our Identity. Any change, or disruption, in our sense of who we are – our…
In an interview with Tim Ferriss I heard Tony Robbins say something very interesting. He mentioned the difference between emotional intelligence and emotional fitness. It was such a powerful distinction for me . . . . * * * Yes, the latter requires the former, but the former is (really) meaningless without the latter. Meaningless…