One of the Most Important Skills

If being hard on yourself was going to work, it would have worked by now. – Jamie Smart This reminds of something I’ve heard: if you talked to other people the way you (sometimes) talk to your self, you’d have no friends. Sometimes people think that if they’re easy on themselves they won’t accomplish anything. That…

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. – Nancy Astor We begin life as babies with no sense of separation, later we learn that there’s “me” and everyone else. If we’re lucky we feel connected to everyone else, but so often…

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. – Thomas Jefferson You should spend four times as much time dreaming as you do looking at the past. Really, it’s true, there have been numerous studies that have shown . . . . I’m kidding, there are no studies. And…

I recently read a post on Johnny B. Truant’s blog that really hit home. So much so that I wanted to do two things: share it with my readers and 2) think on and write about each piece of his post. The post is “20 Truths About Life No One Wants To Believe” and the next one…

It is more important to reach our potential than it is to reach our goals. – Max de Pree What could be more important than goals? Becoming who we are truly capable of being. I remember being asked what my greatest fear was once and all I could come up with is not living up…

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to…