Habits and Character

People die of fright and live of confidence. – Henry David Thoreau Fright, dread, (dis)stress, angst, anxiety . . . fear is caustic, it’s poisonous, it’s not good for your soul. Confidence, hope, joy, determination, self-assurance, faith . . . love is life-giving, it’s what feeds your soul. What matters here is focus. What you…

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. – Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi I love how this sentiment democratizes discovery. It becomes something anyone can do, in regards to anything. You could be a discoverer. Anyone can. How does that shift you? How does change how you look at the world?…

The best way to persuade people is with your ears – by listening to them. – Dean Rusk There’s a difference between persuasion and coercion. If you persuade, you are either helping someone see a different point of view or to act when they would not have otherwise. To persuade you need trust. Trust is…

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. – Henry Kaiser As with everything, it’s all about perspective. See trouble and you’ll have a problem. See opportunity and you’ll dig in. What are you going to look for, now?

One key to living well is to understand the distinctions of life. Distinctions are often small shifts in perception that yield great differences in outcome. Think of them like forks in the road, the further you go down one path, the greater difference. *  *  * In any given moment there may not seem to a…

“A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.” – Zig Ziglar So many people wonder why they don’t advance as quickly as they’d like (or advance at all… ). A likely explanation is they aren’t working very hard, or they are working at the wrong things. Working effectively,…