How Life Works

Character is much easier kept than recovered. – Thomas Paine Just as it’s easier to keep an existing customer than to acquire a new one, character and trust is much, much, much harder to recover once it’s is lost than it is to maintain. Therefore, resolve to live in such a way: That you don’t…

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. – Jim Rohn And change is hard. Change is easier, slightly, when approached authentically* and gradually.** Change takes hard work. Sustained, daily, hard work. Get started, now. The time is going to pass anyway, and you’re going to be doing something anyway. *…

Default. Habitual. Less-than-fully-Conscious. Routine. Comfortable. The Usual. So much of what we do is out of habit. It’s routine. It’s just the way we do it. There’s good reason for how this happens and why. We’re built to create and use routines and habits. It’s efficient. It leaves room to focus on threats and survival. It’s primitive….

Today is Thanksgiving in the United States and I wanted to share some quotes and brief thoughts on gratitude and being thankful: “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust Honor those who, by their presence and way, make much…

I read and listen to a lot of self/personal development stuff. But all that reading and listening doesn’t amount to a hill-of-beans (speaking of which, has anyone ever seen an actual “hill-of-beans” and is one all that desirable?) without application. Information without application is interesting and sometimes entertaining, but it’s never transformative – it doesn’t change anyone…

If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you. – Zig Ziglar If we’re not growing we’re dying (we’re dying anyway, but don’t let that get in my way here… ). When we seek and surmount challenges we get better. We become more confident and sure of ourselves. Isn’t that what we want? Is that…