How Joy Works

So many people have heard the old saw “practice makes perfect.” It’s wrong. Just. Plain. Wrong. I was watching a Tim Ferriss Four Hour Life video and he quoted a top chef who says: “practice makes permanent.” It’s true. Absolutely 100% true. What you train, you ingrain. Whatever you practice creates muscle memory and neural pathways…

“We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.” – Earl Nightingale No one is coming. No one is coming to rescue you, or make you do the work, or take the next step with your dream. No one can give you permission to…

Keep these concepts in mind: You’ve failed many times, although you don’t remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim . . . . Don’t worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you…

“Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.” – William James While the author of that quote may not have used the salty language in the title, I hope it got your attention. If I do have your attention, please allow me to invite you to get off your back-side in…

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. – Nancy Astor We begin life as babies with no sense of separation, later we learn that there’s “me” and everyone else. If we’re lucky we feel connected to everyone else, but so often…

If the unexamined life is not worth living, . . . it’s equally true that the unlived life is not worth examining. – Parker Palmer This quote pretty much speaks for itself. Yes, we must examine our lives, and ourselves, continually throughout our lives, but that’s only half of what’s necessary. We must have a…