I’ll give you the bad news first, so you can get the good news last.
The bad news is that you cannot manage time. To the extent that time is even real (it’s a construction of humans . . . ), it is immutable. Your perception of time can change, but you can’t control it, or even manage it.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein I’ll grant you, not everything is going to feel like a “miracle.” But the bigger point here is that how you approach things matters. The set…
Be great in act, as you have been in thought. – William Shakespeare You have good ideas, don’t you? You have have good, worthy ideas about what you want to create, and support and otherwise shepherd into the World, right? Of course you do. * * * Take action. Begin. Step forward, take a risk…
If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough. – Vince Lombardi If you’re not making mistakes: you’re playing it safe; you’re playing small; you’re not using all your talents and abilities; you’re wasting the gift that is your life; you’re living in a way that you’ll feel guilty about later; you’re . ….
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. – Albert Einstein As a coach I am very curious. I ask a lot of questions. I am always reminding myself to wonder and be curious, to ask clients, and myself: “What else might that mean…?” “How does that happen… ?” “Could you see that…
He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own. – Confucius The nature of humans and collections thereof is that good is rewarded (and the not-good is either ignored, or punished). When you serve others, you serve yourself. How? Because there really isn’t any other . . . .
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself. – Emerson When Emerson talks about “ultimate success” I believe he’s speaking of the combination of deciding what you truly want and giving the creation of that your absolute, level best. The only one who can keep you from that is yourself. There’s two, main,…