Because They’re Different

The two hardest things to handle in life are failure & success. – Anonymous . . . you’re going to live very well. The trick with failing is to learn from it and keep going – and to realize that no defeat is permanent The trick with success is to learn from it and keep going…

Positive Thinking, by itself, isn’t much, and it’s certainly not sufficient. Positive thinking without constructive visualization and consistent action/adaptation is like pizza without sauce, and cheese, and toppings, and an oven, and someone skilled to make the pizza and bake, and slice, it — it’s just dough. Positive thinking when combined with vivid and emotionally charged…

If you start to think the problem is ‘out there,’ stop yourself.  That thought is the problem. – Stephen Covey Whatever is bothering you out there is something you need to fix inside yourself. You can come to the understanding that there are things outside of yourself that you can either control and make better,…

“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” – Seth Godin Pretty self-explanatory, but I’ll buttress the sentiment with what is arguably my personal motto* (borrowed from Viv Savage, the keyboard player in This Is Spinal Tap): “Have a good time, all…

Here’s a short, but oh so sweet, post from Seth Godin: Hope and expectation Hope is fuel, it moves us forward and it amplifies our best work. Expectation is the killer of joy, the shortest route to disappointment. When we expect that something will happen, we can’t help but be let down… *  *  *…

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip. – Winston Churchill Sure, this quote is dripping with sarcasm and is both clever and funny, but it raises an important point (by way of absurdity . . . ): How tactful are you?…