The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. – Franklin D. Roosevelt FDR is right, but the quote has become over-used to the point of being trite. Allow me to offer an update of sorts: The only thing we have to fear is not doing that which matters to us and isn’t actually scary.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. – Rene Descartes Anthony Robbins would call the above “chunking.” He would say we should chunk everything down to whatever size necessary to take action on something and complete it. There’s a lot to what he, and Descartes, say. *…

Is the voice in your head the Voice of Reason (which serves you) or the Voice of Reasons (which acts like it protects you, but really just makes excuses and holds you back)? I wrote that a while ago and it still holds up. We have both “voices” in our heads, but one is louder…

Watch your habits; they become character. – Lao Tzu Watch your habits of thinking, acting, eating, speaking, drinking, moving, . . . you become that.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. – Og Mandino Everybody notices the big successes and the epic failures, but few recognize that both are made of myriad choices and non-choices, things you do and don’t do. Though it might seem it, life is not a smattering of resolutions, it…

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere. – Frank A. Clark If you’re not being tested, you’re not growing. If you’re not growing you’re dying. If you’re dying, you’re . . . . *  *  * What are you?

Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning. – Winston Churchill Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s acting anyway. Where are you afraid, where you could act anyway? Which of your fears are just excuses?