How To Use Your Words to YOUR Advantage

Are you disaster-tolerant? (Do you have reserves?) This question is well-posed in Seth Godin’s blog post (here it is in its entirety): Not all disasters can be avoided. Not all disasters are fatal. If you accept these two truths, your approach to risk will change. If you build a disaster-tolerant nation or project or lifestyle,…

“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” – Oscar Wilde Success is assembling certain components of thought and action in a certain order. “Failure” is what you get when you have the wrong components, or the wrong order, or both. Either way, you get results. Just keep tweaking until…

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. – Marcus Antonius The quote requires a careful reading. You must be willing to consider that there are things that you think about that cause you anger and grief and things…

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance. – Goethe When you’re dreaming, musing, formulating the future, choosing from amazing possibility . . . be enthusiastic. Let your imagination run wild. Many have said there is nothing you can conceive that you can’t achieve. It’s true….

I want to talk with you about gaps. Two gaps in particular. The first is the gap between where you are and where you want to be.  We all have this gap, and once it’s closed, we find new things we want. But the gap means we need to change, and we’re hard wired to…

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. – Rumi We are all living a story. A story we create with the help of others and our repeated thoughts and beliefs. At any time you can shift your story. Rewrite it. Be an active and authentic author going…