How To Create A Life That Loves You

The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are. – Thomas Dreier You get what you give. You reap what you…

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from. – Seth Godin There’s really not much to add to this. Why do so many of us live lives that we regularly ponder escaping from? Of course it’s natural – and healthy – to desire…

This week’s external resource isn’t what I set out to find. After checking Wharton’s Knowledge@Wharton, I went to my trusty stand-by: the HBR Blogs. But even there I didn’t find what I had initially sought: something by Umair Haque or Tony Schwartz. Instead, I found this great article by Judith Glaser. As soon as she mentioned cortisol…

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. – Marcus Aurelius The simple truth of these words is SO powerful. Whatever you’re feeling is the result of what you think…

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. – Og Mandino Everybody notices the big successes and the epic failures, but few recognize that both are made of myriad choices and non-choices, things you do and don’t do. Though it might seem it, life is not a smattering of resolutions, it…

“The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.” – Henry Ford As someone who knows, I can say that there is no job security. The only “job” security is a strong ability to create value in the marketplace.