More Than A Living, A Fortune
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
Imagine I offered to give you $5 each day, for a year, beginning on January 1. The 1st comes and I give you five dollars, and the next day, and the next and I was consistent in giving you the five dollars for say, three weeks. But ’round the 20th of the month I miss…
I’m going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You have to promise not to tell the ICF that I told you this or I could get in really big trouble. Deal? Coaching works for three reasons (and they don’t all jibe with what the ICF says on their web-site): One, because…
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. – Benjamin Disraeli Those three words can be some of the most powerful. As important is what we follow those words with. “I don’t know, and I’m going to learn.” “I don’t know, and that’s okay.” “I don’t know,…
“I must learn to love the fool in me—the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also…
Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you. – Zig Ziglar I love this quote because it illustrates, in a fun way, how to be really confident. (And, I love Zig Ziglar quotes!) * * * People sometimes confuse arrogance with confidence. Confidence is belief in yourself…
“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein The idea that our language creates our world (each of our worlds… ) is very compelling for me. I have long said that humans are meaning-seeking and meaning-creating creatures. We must not only understand our world, but make sense of it,…