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 listened to a great edition of the Good Life Project podcast. I highly recommend the conversation Jonathan has with Laura Vanderkam. My key takeaway was something that I’ve thought and kind of believed, but hadn’t yet really come to full realize: time is a choice. If that’s true though, that how we use…
The world is full of people who want to change, who say they need to change, but remain stuck.* I look at one of those people in the mirror every day. The above chart illustrates someone who says his Ideal Weight is one number and, yet,…
I am a fan of the New York Football Giants. I am also a fan of excellent coaching and execution. As much as I enjoyed the Giants’ victories over the New England Patriots in Superbowls XLII and XLVI, I am also a fan of the Patriots. To say the Patriots under Bill Belichick (BB) are…
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…
I am interrupting my watching of Seth Godin on Jonathan Fields’ Good Life Project to explore an idea Seth presented. Brother Seth was talking about how people begin things and how whether they are 1) afraid and 2) if they care impacts what happens (if anything). I had an idea to map the idea, using a…
You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards. – Brian Tracy The best person you can compete with is yourself. Strive to better each and every day. * * * Did you make a…