If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. – Marcus Aurelius The simple truth of these words is SO powerful. Whatever you’re feeling is the result of what you think…

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. – Albert Einstein So many people associate curiosity with research or innovation, but it has a (wonderful) personal application: How can you be curious about yourself, who you are, what you want and how you can get it? When you use curiosity in this way,…

I saw this in a recent post from Seth Godin: And building a fortress cripples us. It turns people into spies and informants. And spies and informants are so busy being afraid that they fail to actually build anything of value. Not to mention that doing the right thing, doing it in a way we’re…

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. – Walter H. Cottingham Intelligence by itself does nothing. Ambition by itself doesn’t, usually, do anything well, or useful. Combined, they can do just about anything.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. – Rabindranath Tagore Change is constant and inevitable. Difficulties only end when we do (i.e. we die). There will be joy, and pain….

If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprise are built from the ground up. – Lou Gerstner The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small…

Time is what we want the most, but what we use the worst. – William Penn It would seem that everybody is “busy” these days. Some folks are even “crazy” busy. It saddens me to hear this. Why? People are using language to 1) weaken themselves and 2) cast themselves as victims. It would be…