Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one. – Marcus Aurelius
Arguing is generally a waste of time (but only 99% of the time) (better to have an actual conversation, where real listening takes place and ideas get exchanged and considered).
There’s no point in debating what it is to be a good man; just pick something that will improve your character – your way-of-being – and do it.
Waste no more time: act.
Hurt people, hurt people. That’s how pain patterns get passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion and cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future. – Yehuda Berg [Note: what follows might…
Want more awareness? More confidence? To learn how to make changes stick? Do what Matt Cutts did. Watch this video to see what I’m talking about (it’s only three or so minutes… you can spare that, right?).
You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards. – Brian Tracy The best person you can compete with is yourself. Strive to better each and every day. * * * Did you make a…
Imagine life is a concert. Where’s your seat? Are you in the middle of the lower level, about 30 or so rows back (one of the best places to hear music)? Or are you way back? In one of the last rows, tucked in the corner? Perhaps you’re not even inside the venue!? Maybe you’re around…
I’m reading what I believe is a great book. How do I know? How can I know when I’m not done yet? Because I’ve already received a great idea. A powerful new way of seeing something. What’s that “something?” There’s a difference between serving and pleasing. One brings forth your best, and creates good for…
Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination. – Grace…