Our lives are not neutral, they are for something. Even if that something isn’t all that much. Accordingly, carefully and consciously choosing what we want our lives to be about is a gift (potentially) to the World and all those we encounter. (What do you want to give . . . ?) Not choosing has…
“Having a grievance or resentment is like drinking poison and thinking it will kill your enemy.” – Nelson Mandela As we are creatures of and by emotions we must understand that to be angry, or hate, or wish harm to another, or merely hold a grudge, we must produce that state and those emotions within…
The most important person you can keep your word to is yourself. I had a thought the other day, and didn’t capture it at the time (bad Matt . . . !), but want to (try to) re-construct it now. The gist was that we have many of the troubles we do in life because we…
“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…
The problems you have now are an outgrowth of the goals you had before. Author Request: for the sake of this post, let’s agree that “problems” are actually “opportunities.” That by solving the issues that come up as a result of pursuing our goals we have the chance (or, opportunity . . . ) to…
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When you make a mistake, the first time, and it costs you (and it will cost you something), learn from it and call it (the cost) tuition. If you make the same mistake, and it costs you (and it always does, in some way), it’s a tax (and the mistake (i.e. lesson) will keep showing…