Knowledge is Not Power

The successful man is the average man, focused. – Ralph Waldo Emerson So many people think that anyone who is successful is different in some way. Better genetics, or up-bringing, or work ethic, or friends, or discipline, or education, or . . . . It’s not true. People who are successful work harder, longer. True,…

That might seem like an odd title, or perhaps a not very helpful one. But it will soon make sense. A mentor of mine sent me a message that contained the following line: If I am on the wrong road it doesn’t matter how good I get at speeding down the road. It’s the wrong…

Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning. – Winston Churchill Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s acting anyway. Where are you afraid, where you could act anyway? Which of your fears are just excuses?

There are, broadly speaking, three kinds of “dependent:” co-, in- and inter-. One is clearly undesirable, another is sometimes okay and a third (understood properly) is clearly superior. Which do you think is which? I’ll take them in order. Co-dependent: being co-dependent means you not only are not divorced from your personal power, but your…

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you. – Steve Jobs How much are you resisting what you do? How many “have-tos” do you have in your life? Ideally, life is a collection, and series of, “get-tos.” What do you get…

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…