How Your Life Gets Better

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Excellence is doing the right things. Wisdom is doing them them at the right time. Practice is how both happen. *  *  * The little…

“Successful people are simply those with successful habits.” – Brian Tracy And – conversely – unsuccessful people are those with unsuccessful habits. It is truly staggering how much of our lives are automatic. On the one hand, it is this “automation” that makes a great deal of progress and ease possible. If we had to consider and…

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…

“I must learn to love the fool in me—the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also…

There’s a place between not taking consistent action on a goal and being unable or unwilling to release said goal. I call this place the Nasty Middle. If I can get real with you for a minute I find myself in the “nasty middle” on something. My weight. I say I want to weigh less… that…

In terms of what you do, I mean? Should you, as so many say, love what you do? Read this article and come back . . . . *  *  * So, what do you think? Has your answer changed, or evolved even? I think, as the author does as well (in his own way),…