Time is a created thing. To say, ‘I don’t have time’ is to say, ‘I don’t want to.’ – Lao Tzu
What do you spend your time doing?
The key is that time is a limited resource and what you do with it matters.
When you say you can’t do something it’s because you’ve decided (consciously or otherwise) that something else was more important.
What you spend your time on is what you decided matters (even if you decided a long time ago, and/or by default . . . ).
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip. – Winston Churchill Sure, this quote is dripping with sarcasm and is both clever and funny, but it raises an important point (by way of absurdity . . . ): How tactful are you?…
“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.” – Marshall McLuhan As a crew-member, are you pulling-your-own-weight? I’m not sure I always am, as much as I could . . . .
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. – Peter F. Drucker This is the essence of leadership, and success in any endeavor. When a thing is compromised at the outset, it can never be as good as it could have been – and those associated don’t have as great an opportunity to grow…
There’s a place between not taking consistent action on a goal and being unable or unwilling to release said goal. I call this place the Nasty Middle. If I can get real with you for a minute I find myself in the “nasty middle” on something. My weight. I say I want to weigh less… that…
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. – William James I’m sure I’ve blogged on this quote before, but it bears repeating – at least for me. As I learned from a mentor, our lives are…
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true. – Brian Tracy This reminds me of something I’ve heard more than once: if people talked to you the way you sometimes (/often) talk to yourself you’d punch them in the face. And it’s true. Our self-talk sometimes (/often) sucks. And it matters….