One of the Most Important Skills
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie
One of the most important skills in life is knowing the difference.
And knowing the difference for you.
Just a quick post today; I wanted to share a great nugget from Seth Godin. It’ll take you less then two minutes to read (maybe less, I’m a slow reader sometimes), but you can implement it for years . . . Click here to read the post.
People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. – Earl Nightingale Doing what I do and having read what I’ve read, I’ve noticed that there’s a great deal of debate on how to do goals properly. But what I’ve found is that the great “difference” isn’t between the different ways to set and achieve…
Character is like a garden. It matters what you plant and how you care for it. You must also regularly weed your “garden,” being mindful of non-resourceful habits (little or big) compromises and your standards. If you let these things slip (i.e. you don’t weed your character garden), your character, and life, will suffer. It also…
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. – Milton Berle Self-explanatory…
Any regular reader of this blog knows how much I love Seth Godin’s ideas (and generosity thereof). Here is yet another of Seth’s brilliant posts that I am compelled to share and comment on (you can find the original post here): Can and should Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should. The…
I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters. – Henry David Thoreau The curse of stuff, of (unrealized) abundance. It’s as if we’re…