Kindness is Never Wasted
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
Because, regardless of what happens outside of you, when you’re kind, you chip away at any hardness covering over your soul.
We say we want things, but there’s a way to determine what we really want. Look at what we have. Whatever it is we are creating in our lives is what we want. * * * That said, in the absence of clear and authentic desires and goals, we have a default want. One that…
Stop trying to change. You are perfect** the way you are. Your business is perfect** the way it is. Your team is perfect** the way it is. All you need to is EXPERIMENT. Experiments never fail. Change efforts do. Experiments are always successful. Just get clear on what you want and experiment with methods. Notice…
Are you disaster-tolerant? (Do you have reserves?) This question is well-posed in Seth Godin’s blog post (here it is in its entirety): Not all disasters can be avoided. Not all disasters are fatal. If you accept these two truths, your approach to risk will change. If you build a disaster-tolerant nation or project or lifestyle,…
This video is amazing. Please watch it. I wish we had stuff like this in my country… Care to venture a guess as to why such a video – both the content and the style – is so unlikely in the USA? (This is an intentionally short post as I didn’t want to take away from the video’s…
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav’n of hell and a hell of a heav’n. – John Milton Are you making a “hell” of your “heaven?” What about making a “heaven” of your “hell?” Because both are based in thought, they are equally possible. Our lives, or at least…
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With a positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. – W. Clement Stone One of my defining beliefs on failure comes from Tony Robbins: there’s…