One of the Most Important Skills

Watch your habits; they become character. – Lao Tzu Watch your habits of thinking, acting, eating, speaking, drinking, moving, . . . you become that.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. – William Ralph Inge To echo Inge’s brilliant sentiment, (I’ve often said:) worry is a prayer for what you don’t want. Focus on what you want. (Don’t know what you want? Figure it out. And then… yeah, you guessed it: focus on it.)

“The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.” – Henry Ford As someone who knows, I can say that there is no job security. The only “job” security is a strong ability to create value in the marketplace.

You can do anything, but not everything. – David Allen But, you must choose. But, you must know what you truly want. Anything you truly want, you can do. You can create anything you want enough and understand enough. You have to want enough it to do the work. You have to understand enough it to…

Positive Thinking, by itself, isn’t much, and it’s certainly not sufficient. Positive thinking without constructive visualization and consistent action/adaptation is like pizza without sauce, and cheese, and toppings, and an oven, and someone skilled to make the pizza and bake, and slice, it — it’s just dough. Positive thinking when combined with vivid and emotionally charged…

More genius from the estimable Seth Godin (click here to see the post on his site): There are two ways to get ahead: the race to the bottom and the race to the top. You can get as close to the danger zone as you dare. Spam people. Seek deniability. Hide in the shadows. Push…