Habits and Character

“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.” – John Steinbeck I know a thing or two about computers and I laugh (a bit, inside… ) when people chafe at the magic of the computer reboot. They howl (not…

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop Because, regardless of what happens outside of you, when you’re kind, you chip away at any hardness covering over your soul.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. – Leo Buscaglia When doubt: offer a smile; say that kind thing that occurs to you; hold the…

Clarity + Commitment + Action + Iteration = Results Clarity – you must know what, exactly, you are seeking. To the extent you are unclear, you will founder, be frustrated, less-than-effective and even choose, or stop at, the wrong thing (because it resembles what you said you wanted . . . ) Commitment – You…

I have a theory about where much of our behavior comes from. I trot it out often, maybe too often . . . . But this theory does have value, even if seen again as an abstraction. What I mean is that if I distill this theory and its “implications” I can arrive at something useful,…

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…