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?
It just occurred to me that maybe I’ve never really understood “motivation.” Oh sure, I’ve learned that it’s better to be inspired than motivated and better to motivated than coerced. But what is motivation, really? Motivation isn’t something real or actual. It’s a word that describes what happens when one puts a motive into action….
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson Results are important, no doubt. But the measure of our lives, and their direction can’t always be discerned at the end of each day, or week, or month. I want you to be careful with my…
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul. – Rumi Your true wisdom, the “teaching of your Soul” is sometimes difficult to hear, but always available. It is not what the media might try to tell you…
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. – Michel de Montaigne The only things that are real are those things in front of you. Your opinion of things in front of you is not real. What’s actually in front of you is what’s real. You can only act on what’s…
I just read yet another article on how retirement isn’t the panacea people think it is (at least for those financially prepared for retirement… ). People seem to have this idea that they will do everything they want when retire (i.e., all the things they said they couldn’t do while working) and live a life of…