It’s college graduation season.
There are going to be many commencement speakers giving advice and ideas to fresh-faced 20-somethings about to go to go out in the “real world.”
I want to challenge you to imagine that you’re graduating too.
What would you say to yourself if you were transitioning from one phase to another?
What would you say to yourself about the possibility of what’s to come and what you learned so far?
Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are to some extent a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece by thought, choice, courage and determination. – John Luther The (great) thing about (good) character is how it makes you…
The beginning is the most important part of the work. – Plato Why? Because without the beginning there is no in-between and no ending. So often the hardest thing is to begin. But there’s magic in starting. How? Because it’s always easy to do a little more (once you’ve started . . . ). It…
Trade your expectation for appreciation and the world changes for you. – Tony Robbins When you expect you are needy and in opposition with how the World works. When you appreciate the World it (and everything and one in it) is available to you. When you are in appreciation, you are aligned with the energy of creation…
You may delay, but time will not. – Benjamin Franklin Time marches on, with you or without you. If I can add another “quote:” The future is no place to place your better days – “Cry Freedom” – Dave Matthews Band Whatever it is you want to do, get started. If you’re not sure what that…
The enemy of creativity… is fear. We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up. – Seth Godin But you’ve got to make the first move. You need to be creative. Otherwise…
In Life there’s what we (really) want and what we do to keep it out of our lives. Yes, you read that correctly. We keep what we want out of our lives by what we do. And what we have in our lives is a perfect reflection of what we’ve done. * * * It’s…