Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. – Conrad Hilton
Success is a process.
A process that includes triumphs and non-triumphs (i.e. failures).
As long as we do two vital things, we will be successful:
1) Learn from everything that happens
2) Keep moving forward, keep doing
As has been said so many times, both here and elsewhere: success isn’t all that complicated, but does require hard work.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King * * * “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi * * * “Forgiveness is the final form of love.” – Reinhold Niebuhr…
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…
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. – Peter F. Drucker This is the essence of leadership, and success in any endeavor. When a thing is compromised at the outset, it can never be as good as it could have been – and those associated don’t have as great an opportunity to grow…
Worry often gives a small thing a great shadow. – Swedish Proverb A mentor of mine (Steve Chandler) says that worry is a misuse of our imagination. He’s right. We’re best served by using our imagination to ponder what what we want and what we need to do (i.e. who we we need to serve……
I’ll give you the bad news first, so you can get the good news last. The bad news is that you cannot manage time. To the extent that time is even real (it’s a construction of humans . . . ), it is immutable. Your perception of time can change, but you can’t control it,…
People make the best decision they can with the information they have available, and do the best they can with what they have. On its face the above isn’t that controversial, but do you believe it’s how things work? Do you think it’s how you live your life? I would argue that it’s the only…