Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. – William Ralph Inge
To echo Inge’s brilliant sentiment, (I’ve often said:) worry is a prayer for what you don’t want.
Focus on what you want.
(Don’t know what you want? Figure it out. And then… yeah, you guessed it: focus on it.)
I just read yet another article on how retirement isn’t the panacea people think it is (at least for those financially prepared for retirement… ). People seem to have this idea that they will do everything they want when retire (i.e., all the things they said they couldn’t do while working) and live a life of…
“I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success, but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.” – Madeleine Albright I believe it was Einstein who said: there are two ways to live, as if everything is a miracle and as if…
The problem isn’t that I (or any of us . . . ) have a hole in my soul (large, small or tiny), it’s that I’ve created, and nurtured, a belief that I have a hole in my soul (along with the idea that souls can have holes). And that, un-consciously or otherwise, I maintain…
Sometimes I come across something so useful/compelling/interesting that I need to share it in its entirety. Below is one of those things (and it doesn’t matter if you’re a sales-person or entrepreneur or work in a corporate setting or the non-profit sector, or . . . ): In most of our professional relationships we stay…
This week’s external resource is another TED talk (what can I say, they’re brilliant!?), this time from Simon Sinek. In this video he exhorts leaders – and really all of us – to come-from why in terms of leadership, or sales, or living your life, or… Click here to watch the video and, if it impacts your…
“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” – Warren Buffett There are many things we are not prepared for, that we will never encounter. There are, however, many things that we can reasonably expect to encounter, that we could prepare for, that we ignore (for whatever reason… ). Some examples: Divorce is (generally) a…