Beginnings Matter

It’s better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. – Jacki Joyner-Kersee This quote has me thinking about planning, and about how people misunderstand planning. A couple things I’ve noticed: either people don’t see any value in planning or they worry that it will hinder their spontaneity. There’s not much one…

The enemy of creativity… is fear. We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up. – Seth Godin But you’ve got to make the first move. You need to be creative. Otherwise…

I betcha the Dalai Lama has a pretty good “money consciousness” (MC). I’ve been listening to an audio book in the car by the DL (that’s what I sometimes call him, cuz we’re down… ) (How To See Yourself, if you’re wondering) and when he mentioned money he got me to thinking. Thinking about how…

More genius from the estimable Seth Godin (click here to see the post on his site): There are two ways to get ahead: the race to the bottom and the race to the top. You can get as close to the danger zone as you dare. Spam people. Seek deniability. Hide in the shadows. Push…

If my Reality is how I experience the World, and how I experience the World determines what I feel and do, and I create my Reality then I can feel and do whatever I want. I had the above though the other in response to something I read and wanted to unpack it here a…

Some people have to do things. They “have to go to work.” They “have to  pick their kids up.” They “have to [insert the onerous, terrible task].” There’s two levels of dysfunction here: 1) What about people who don’t have jobs? What about people that would love to have kids? Does anyone think they would say…