Are you a manager of your circumstances or a creator of your life?
Do you (merely) react to what happens and “make the best of it?”
Or are you clear about what you want your life to be about and are actively implementing a plan to create what you want?
Are you a manager or a creator?
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…
If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now. – Marie Osmond Or you can: worry about it; stress about it; ruminate about it; wish it were different; let it make you feel powerless, afraid, lonely, . . . . *…
At the risk of shameless self-promotion, here is a post on why coaching is a powerful way to create authentic and lasting change: Who you hang out with matters. (The right coach is a wonderful person to “hang out” with once a week or so, and will challenge you to upgrade your associations if necessary.) What…
The ancestor of every action is a thought. – Ralph Waldo Emerson I’ve been reading more and more about the power of thought. The more I read, and think, the more I believe that our thoughts are the prime movers of our lives. Everything else is tactics.* *** Without a solid understanding of how thought…
We hear a lot about soft skills (emotional intelligence (EI) and the like). I’ve always been a bit bothered by the characterization of such vital skills as “soft.” With the exception of such things as pillows and the like, “soft” is a pejorative – especially for men. I’m here to shift that. From now on, let’s…
. . . and not a camera. We project our thoughts and “sense-of-things” onto the World. Nothing in the world is stressful, or difficult, or complicated or beautiful, elegant or amazing. As Shakespeare said: “for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” We think we see things, but we really just…