Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. – Maori proverb
Do you, typically, move away from what you don’t want, or towards what you do?
The latter is always preferable.
I know there are times when moving away is necessary.
Just make sure as you’re backing away you turn around and head towards what you want.
“You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.” – Harvey Firestone No one will follow, willingly and to the best of their abilities and capacities, someone they don’t believe in. People recognize character and integrity, and even more easily, its absence. Before anyone — be they a CEO, parent…
In case you were wondering what the back of my new business card looks like, here it is:
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. Failure makes people bitter and cruel. – W. Somerset Maugham So many people mis-quote the biblical passage about money and the “root of all evil.”…
Either what happens changes our mood… or our mood changes the way we narrate what happens. – Seth Godin People don’t seem to understand that we can either be blown about by the winds of circumstance or we can feel the winds of life, know that it’s sometimes windy and figure out how to use…
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. – Pelé Success is no accident, nor is what creates the grit and perseverance required to create success. You must fall in love with what’s required to achieve your…
Everyone wants to be appreciated. So if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret. – Mary Kay Ash To be appreciated is to be affirmed. To be affirmed is a reminder that we are beyond mere survival in the world and we free to use our gifts and talents to be fulfilled and help…