You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good. – Jerry West
If you only do things you feel like, you won’t make much progress. You’ll be lucky to “tread water.”
That might be okay for some people, but is it for you?
When you’re committed to things, to goals and priorities, you do what’s necessary – even you don’t feel like it.
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With a positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. – W. Clement Stone One of my defining beliefs on failure comes from Tony Robbins: there’s…
The lessons we need to learn, the lessons we must learn, will – invariably – keep showing up until we learn them. Case-in-point: my current desire to shed weight, become lighter and live my Ideal Weight. I am happy to say that I am making progress. I am shedding weight because my behavior has changed. My behavior has…
Just wanted to share with you something that was shared with me: ***** Whenever you think that your needs are not met, you’re telling the story of a future. – Byron Katie Because the present moment meets all needs; it’s only the future that does not. That’s why my friend Rich Litvin always reminds us…
In terms of dreams/goals/desires there are only three variations: 1) Things You Want 2) Things You Don’t (Really) Want 3) Things You Think You Can’t Have * * * Just stating that’s there’s a mere trinity of “things-we-want” is likely to rub some the wrong way. But it’s true. Let’s take #1: Things You Want….
Seth Godin wants to know: Which of the four are getting in the way? You don’t know what to do You don’t know how to do it You don’t have the authority or the resources to do it You’re afraid Once you figure out what’s getting in the way, it’s far easier to find the…
Choice, not circumstances, determines your success. – Anonymous Every day, minute, second, instant we are at choice. We can choose what is resourceful, what serves our goals and desires, and the development of our best self, or we can choose something else, or we can fail to choose and go with with rote habit. So…