It’s Not Enough To Know

You can tell me what you want, what you dream about, what your “Ideal Life” would be, what you want to start or stop, . . . , but all that matters is what you do. At the end of the day: behavior always wins. All that – really – matters is action. Of course, emotions beget…

Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do. – Marilyn Vos Savant So many people are sad, or stressed, or frustrated, or down, or melancholy or aggravated, or . . . take your pick. But where do these modern emotions come from? From one place, and one place only: our thoughts. How we…

Which one is stronger? Either can overpower the other. This afternoon I didn’t feel like going to the gym. But I hadn’t been since Saturday and my commitment to going three-to-four days per week was in serious jeopardy of being violated. So I went to the gym and worked out. Commitment > Mood.

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…

This above all – to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as night follows day, thou canst not then be false to any man. – William Shakespeare We’ve all heard the first part of this quote, but rarely is the rest of it mentioned. Pity. Because as important as it is to be…

This post focuses on the first competence of Emotional Intelligence*, Emotional Self-awareness (contained within the Self-Awareness Domain): Leaders high in emotional self-awareness are attuned to their inner signals, recognizing how their feelings affect them and their job performance. They are attuned to their guiding values and can often intuit the best course of action, seeing…