When you’re going somewhere you’ve never been to, what do you do?
Do you just wing it?
Do you just start driving and figure it’ll all work out?
Of course not, but that’s what so many people do with their lives.
Sure, they might have a vague plan, likely a mash-up of family and social expectations, but they don’t have a clear, measurable and authentic plan.
And to paraphrase Jim Rohn: if you don’t have a plan for your life, someone else will, and their plan won’t benefit you.
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. – Emerson Ideas are nothing, really, without action. I would put a slightly different twist on Emerson’s words by saying ideas not worked through the minds, hearts and bodies of men are mere fantasies….
The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled…
I just read an article by a mentor of mine that got me to thinking. The article talked about why one of his clients was having such a hard time, whether or not his past success was a fluke and if he could create it again going forward. His client conceded that he was, at…
Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. – Napoleon Hill You have more at your command than you relaize. You’re more skilled than you think. You. Are….
It’s “interesting” how some people just don’t understand how mortgage rates work. There’s a train of thought that says: “as the Fed lowers interest rates mortgage rates will come down.” That’s just not so. The Fed only controls the Fed Funds Rate, which does impact floating rate instruments, like, say, credit cards and high-yield savings…
I subscribe to one of Brian Tracy’s newsletters and in just the first paragraph of his latest missive I was inspired to write a blog post. The line that got me thinking was: “When Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” he was saying that the emotion of…