Do. It. Now.

I don’t think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. – Mike Ditka Let’s get real. Let’s put aside fantasies about what we think we want. Let’s put aside marketing-fueled thoughts of how you might feel if you bought such-and-such thing or traveled to some far-off place, or whatever is being sold…

Things will get better when you get better. – Brian Tracy Absolutely. But not unless, and until, you get better. Better internal language/dialog Better habits. Better initiative and action-taking. Better emotional intelligence. Better exercise routine. Better nutrition. Better relationships. Better saving/spending. Better you.

There are many resources for the “how” of anything. If you want to be more productive, successful, have better relationships, get promoted, start a business, . . . and on and on, there’s no shortage of resources that will lay out exactly what you must do to have whatever it is you want. They are…

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. – Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama) You can never love anyone more than you love yourself. You can never be happier than you think you deserve. You can never earn more than you think you’re worth. Whatever…

. . . and not a camera. We project our thoughts and “sense-of-things” onto the World. Nothing in the world is stressful, or difficult, or complicated or beautiful, elegant or amazing. As Shakespeare said: “for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” We think we see things, but we really just…