If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. – Maya Angelou
Complaining is a prayer for what you don’t want.
Whatever we focus on expands; so if you’re complaining, you’re expanding what you don’t want (or what you say you don’t want . . . ).
So, if you don’t like something, either:
1) figure out how to change it; or
2) change how you look at it (change what it means to you).
People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. – Earl Nightingale Doing what I do and having read what I’ve read, I’ve noticed that there’s a great deal of debate on how to do goals properly. But what I’ve found is that the great “difference” isn’t between the different ways to set and achieve…
I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters. – Henry David Thoreau The curse of stuff, of (unrealized) abundance. It’s as if we’re…
I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But, I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan People fear failure. They worry that things won’t turn out just like they want, so they do little, or nothing And it hurts. It really, really hurts. Not getting-punched-in-the-mouth-by-Mike-Tyson-hurt, but a hurt just as bad. What doesn’t actually hurt…
“My belief is that personal freedom cannot grow beyond personal responsibility. The more people that learn to be fully accountable for their lives, the more freedom each of us can enjoy and the more fulfilling all of our lives will be.” – Ross Parmenter Put another way, we are limited in our ability to create…
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” – Peter Drucker I (might) take this idea too far sometimes. I take pride in the idea: “I don’t always do everything I could, or ‘should,’ but whatever I do, I do well.” I know that, deep-down, more-often-than-not, it’s…
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. – Emily Dickinson Is your soul open? Are you ready for miracles in your life? In a way, our lives themselves are miracles. The human body functioning, minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day is a miracle. So much has to…