“We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.” – Earl Nightingale
No one is coming.
No one is coming to rescue you, or make you do the work, or take the next step with your dream.
No one can give you permission to be who you really are – except you.
It’s up to you. (Always was, always will be… )
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny. – Mohandas Gandhi Not much…
Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint. – Emerson Yes, I am riffing off the recent political meme in the post title. (“Never let a crisis go to waste.” (Attributed, I believe, to Rahm Emanuel).) That aside, Emerson’s words are an extremely valuable reminder. We ignore “failures” and “calamities” at our peril. Every…
“If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” – Dale Carnegie Action doesn’t guarantee success. It does guarantee results and data. With this information and feedback one can fine-tune their approach and methods. By continually monitoring your results you will make progress and achieve…
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…
We’re not always doing what we want to do (even if we don’t know what we want to do). So: we don’t know what we want to do, but we know it’s not this, and we’re dissatisfied. Or. We’re clear about what we want to be doing and where we want to be, but we’re…
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’ – Mary Anne Radmacher Sure, Hollywood wants us to believe that courage is primarily the domain of the well-muscled action hero, but real courage is more like the everyday person who makes a…