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. – General Omar Bradley So many people take their cues from without. Whether it’s loved ones, friends, co-workers/bosses or popular culture, so many are (heavily) influenced by the continuous and myriad messages that permeate modern life. The cure? Learn to be…
You do. Now, in practice, goal-setting doesn’t work, for most people. Take New Year’s Resolutions, we all know how successful they are . . . . I’m not here to blame or cast aspersions, but to explain why goal-setting doesn’t work, for most people. * * * Okay, so the fundamental truth is: goals(etting) don’t…
There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. Vince Lombardi I think people sometimes hesitate to give “it” their “everything” because they worry that “it” might not be enough. Don’t worry if “it” is your best at a given moment, just give your best, all the time, every…
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. – Oscar Wilde Sometimes people don’t do something (for someone) because it’s hard, or they don’t know how it will be received, or . . . . The problem is that we only grow and benefit from the things we actually do. When…
How our environment shapes us is something I have often thought about. What we surround ourselves with can either build us up, or not. Our physical environment, who we associate with, the books, music and ideas we pay attention to and the thoughts we entertain and repeat all matter in terms of our development, or…
The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score. – Bill Copeland No, not that sort of “scoring!” I mean do you know when you’ve accomplished something important? Something of value, to you? Without goals, you won’t know.