People die of fright and live of confidence. – Henry David Thoreau
Fright, dread, (dis)stress, angst, anxiety . . . fear is caustic, it’s poisonous, it’s not good for your soul.
Confidence, hope, joy, determination, self-assurance, faith . . . love is life-giving, it’s what feeds your soul.
What matters here is focus.
What you focus on expands.
Focus on the good.
Focus on confidence.
It is irrational to expect someone to change his or her behavior based on nonexistent feedback. – John A. Allison I’ve often heard, and sometimes said, “You can only fix the problems you know about.” While I could go into awareness and the importance of paying attention and asking good questions, I’d rather alert you…
While watching Carol Leifer on the Tavis Smiley Show talk about how she kept trying, and trying, and trying to get on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson I had a realization. Tavis was asking how do you keep going when you keep getting rejected (it took her 22 auditions to finally get booked)? Carol…
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. – Calvin Coolidge Don’t let the wish to do “everything” negate the necessity of doing something.
Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe. – Oprah Winfrey Let’s imagine that the “truth” of life is that you’ll fall somewhat short of what you aim for? I don’t necessarily believe that, but just for sugar and giggles, let’s pretend . . . . What should…
I receive Hugh MacLeod’s blog updates and highly recommend you subscribe as well. One recently got my attention and reminded me of a favorite quote from one of my mentors (Thomas Leonard): “People do what they do because they don’t have anything better to do.” Check out Hugh’s blog post here before reading on. I…
Learning is not improving. Learning is critical and vital for achievement and success, but by itself it’s not enough Improving is taking what we’ve learned and putting into action. Improving is applying what we’ve learned to make things better – to make our lives better and the lives of those around us, and with any luck,…