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.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely* try to help another without helping himself. – Emerson Everything is sticky, whether you’re generous or stingy, helpful and conniving, thoughtful or selfish, . . . everything rubs off on you. Be very careful what you rub up against – whether it’s…
I had a thought the other day and wanted to share the notes I feverishly scribbled down, along with a couple further thoughts. Here’s what I came up with (un-edited): We are spiritual beings with a body. We experience the world through our body – our senses. We think, that is how we move our spirit…
I just listened to a great edition of the Good Life Project podcast. I highly recommend the conversation Jonathan has with Laura Vanderkam. My key takeaway was something that I’ve thought and kind of believed, but hadn’t yet really come to full realize: time is a choice. If that’s true though, that how we use…
The lessons we need to learn, the lessons we must learn, will – invariably – keep showing up until we learn them. Case-in-point: my current desire to shed weight, become lighter and live my Ideal Weight. I am happy to say that I am making progress. I am shedding weight because my behavior has changed. My behavior has…
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. – Albert Einstein As a coach I am very curious. I ask a lot of questions. I am always reminding myself to wonder and be curious, to ask clients, and myself: “What else might that mean…?” “How does that happen… ?” “Could you see that…
“Successful people are simply those with successful habits.” – Brian Tracy And – conversely – unsuccessful people are those with unsuccessful habits. It is truly staggering how much of our lives are automatic. On the one hand, it is this “automation” that makes a great deal of progress and ease possible. If we had to consider and…