Good is not good where better is expected. – Thomas Fuller
Good is often all we strive for.
Or, more accurately, what we often settle for.
But good isn’t good when your standards are higher.
When you decide that merely “good” isn’t enough, your life will transform.
But you must make that decision for yourself – no one will do it for you.
“Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.” – Stephen R. Covey Something that has been coming up for me a lot lately is the idea of honoring our gifts. What does it mean…
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. – Rene Descartes Anthony Robbins would call the above “chunking.” He would say we should chunk everything down to whatever size necessary to take action on something and complete it. There’s a lot to what he, and Descartes, say. *…
I am a regular viewer of Good Life Project videos and becoming increasingly curious about Jonathan Fields and his approach to, and relationship with, entrepreneurship. The latest GLP video is a great example of that and features Jonathan along with the founders of Soulcycle: Elizabeth Cutler and Julie Rice. If you’re at all interested in…
What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity. – J. Sidlow Baxter This week has been a bit about language and meaning so I had* to share this quote. A key question is: what is our attitude towards…
The solution of the problem that you see in life is to live in a way that will make what is problematic disappear. – Ludvig Wittgenstein This quote inspires me: What if I lived my life in such a way that 1) Problems / Issues / Frustrations/ Impossibilities were seen as Challenges / Learning-and-Growth-Opportunities and…
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. You don’t have charge of the constellations, but you do have charge of whether you read, develop new skills, or take new classes. – Jim Rohn You can…