If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you. – Steve Jobs
How much are you resisting what you do?
How many “have-tos” do you have in your life?
Ideally, life is a collection, and series of, “get-tos.”
What do you get to do?
Did that get your attention? I’m not doing any resolutions this New Year. They don’t work. But what does work? That’s a great question.* * * * * One that I work on all the time.
“People die of fright and live of confidence.” – Thoreau I think Thoreau, among other things, was speaking of courage here. Confidence is what results when courage (being afraid, but taking a reasonable risk anyway) is combined with purpose (the energy that comes from knowing what we want and why we want it). Is courage…
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…
“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…
Huh? What’s Matt on about now? A “one-footer?” I was watching a Brendon Burchard video where he was talking about limiting beliefs and how they don’t really limit us, unless we focus on them to the exclusion of other thoughts. It got to me to thinking. There are people that drive their cars with one…
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trial. – Confucius If everything is easy, nothing is valued. If nothing is valued, life has little meaning. A life without meaning is the greatest misery a human can know. * * * Work hard. Get your hands dirty. Fail,* regularly. Fall down and…