How To Live (not merely exist . . . )

While no classification system is perfect, or complete, they can be helpful to make distinctions. While reading an eBook the other day I came across one that characterized people as either: Spectators, Losers or Winners. I recoiled a bit at the particular word choice and thought I could improve upon it. With that in mind,…

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson Results are important, no doubt. But the measure of our lives, and their direction can’t always be discerned at the end of each day, or week, or month. I want you to be careful with my…

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind. – Robert Oxton Bolton One way I understand what beliefs are is to say they are thoughts we have don’t question and continue to think (albeit largely unconsciously). I love how Bolton describes a belief as idea…

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do. – Confucius People confuse glory, and success, with never failing. Quite the contrary. Success, and glory, consists of getting back up each time you get knocked down. Of learning from non-desired outcomes and beginning again, with wisdom and humility….

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. – John Lubbock There’s so much “out there,” but what you see is depends on what you look for. It also depends on what you’re willing to see. *  *  * What do you look for? What are you willing to see? The answer to those…

My well-being is independent of my bank account balance. My sense of what is possible for me is independent of my bank account balance. My willingness to do new things and learn is independent of my bank account balance.   I was inspired to write the above while reading a book written by one of…