Beginnings Matter

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in. –  Alan Alda Assumptions are both helpful and dangerous. Yes, it can be helpful to bring a sense of what something is what you’re doing, but be very…

“In preparing for battle, I have found that planning is essential, but plans are useless.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower The true magic of Ike’s words are that they describe who we become by planning. I consider planning a way of honoring our potential and effort. Sometimes, it is best to be spontaneous, to let things go…

Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky. – Hafiz I recently had a realization similar to the quote above. I was waiting for love to come to me, to be loved and cared for…

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. – Socrates We all want* a good reputation, to be well-regarded in the eyes of others. Wanting a “good” reputation is not enough though. You need to have a clear picture. You need a plan for creating and…

I was in my car today listening to a developmental audio program (Jack Canfield’s “Success Principles”) (a practice I highly recommend, by the way . . . ) and was both inspired and challenged by something I heard. Jack was talking about the importance of mindset in success, with components thereof being 1) that you…

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you’ve got. – Jim Rohn If you keep being who you are, you will keep doing what you’re doing and you’ll keep creating what you have. Change – real change – comes from changing your being. How do you do that? One key is looking…