The two hardest things to handle in life are failure & success. – Anonymous
. . . you’re going to live very well.
The trick with failing is to learn from it and keep going – and to realize that no defeat is permanent
The trick with success is to learn from it and keep going – and to understand that no success is permanent.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. – Jim Rohn Sometimes people get confused about how to be successful. They think it takes something they don’t have, things others were born with. It’s just not so. First, success is an individual thing and second it’s a process. Success is what you decide it be (even if…
Today is Yesterday’s Tomorrow – Jim Rohn Whatever you said you were going to do “tomorrow,” or “later,” or “soon,” is now due. Just act. However imperfectly, or even incompletely, do something. Get some results, learn something about your actions: Did it work? Great! Why? Build on that information, that feed-forward. Did it not work?…
I was just thinking about an exercise I could do with clients where we take a client goal, close our eyes and vividly imagine what it will be like when the goal is achieved. We would stir up positive, constructive, emotions and actually experience the feelings that would accompany the new reality (that would exist…
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind. – Robert Oxton Bolton One way I understand what beliefs are is to say they are thoughts we have don’t question and continue to think (albeit largely unconsciously). I love how Bolton describes a belief as idea…
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. – Albert Einstein Why? What is it about “big dreams” that trumps having “all the facts?” Facts, to some degree, are necessary, but they are indeed insufficient. Without the emotional power…
If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. – W. Clement Stone Today is Thanksgiving here in the good ol’ USA and while some will be scrambling for some “Door Buster Sale” item or some other essentially unobtainable bargain, I suggest that we 1) don’t engage in any “shopping-like” activity and 2)…