Live Before You Die

The mind is everything. What you think you become. – Buddha An oldie, but a goodie. And still true.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat – Napoleon Hill At the risk of sounding like a ranting Dennis Green, things are what we say they are, and when we say they are things that serve us, that’s what they become. When confronted with a set-back, challenge, problem, issue, or…

The lessons we need to learn, the lessons we must learn, will – invariably – keep showing up until we learn them. Case-in-point: my current desire to shed weight, become lighter and live my Ideal Weight. I am happy to say that I am making progress. I am shedding weight because my behavior has changed. My behavior has…

Some people have to do things. They “have to go to work.” They “have to  pick their kids up.” They “have to [insert the onerous, terrible task].” There’s two levels of dysfunction here: 1) What about people who don’t have jobs? What about people that would love to have kids? Does anyone think they would say…

Trustworthy. Respectable. Admirable. *  *  * Leadership, more than anything, is a personal relationship between leader and led. It’s not a hierarchical relationship, where one person has power and the other none. Sure, a leader must be technically savvy and proficient, s/he must know “the business,” but at its core, its most fundamental, leadership is…

It is the studying that you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows. – Henry Doherty So many people think they’re done with “school” and “learning” once their undergraduate, or even graduate, days are over. That, unfortunately, is a recipe for stagnation and regression. The…