No one ‘makes us angry.’ We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. – Jim Rohn
I have little to add here.
Only to ask, perhaps challenge, you to consider this and agree with it (which has tremendous implications for how you live) or to disagree (which too has tremendous implications for how you live).
Well . . . ?
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vince Lombardi An oldie, but a goodie. Another one, that I can’t attribute, but love, is ” . . . it’s like standing in front of a stove, with no wood in it, and expecting heat.”
Today’s post is a blatant rip-off of a mentor – but his words are so perfect, his message so on-point, I had to share it in its entirety. In an e-mail from Steve Chandler this morning, I found this gem of a message: If I walked in to your home office today I would find other…
I have never known a really successful man who deep in his heart did not understand the grind, the discipline it takes to win. – Vince Lombardi There are no over-night-success-stories. (Media just makes it seem that way… ) There are only every-night-success-stories. As in: working hard, night after night, day after day. So choose your work…
Success is a skill. It’s not something we arrive at, or get, or have bestowed upon us or finally possess. It’s something that must be developed, over time, and continually re-made and renewed. It’s what we choose to think. It’s how we choose to think. Are we choosing useful and constructive thoughts? Are we meditating and…
If being hard on yourself was going to work, it would have worked by now. – Jamie Smart This reminds of something I’ve heard: if you talked to other people the way you (sometimes) talk to your self, you’d have no friends. Sometimes people think that if they’re easy on themselves they won’t accomplish anything. That…
As a solid rock cannot be moved by the wind, the wise are not shaken by praise or blame. – Buddha I heard Wayne Dyer say one measure of a healthy Ego is to be independent of the good and bad opinion of others. I have to agree with Wayne and the Buddha. What do…