Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. – Denis Waitley
What to do instead?
Invest your time wisely, by focusing on your values and authentic goals.
Honor your body, by what you put in it and how you move.
You can’t make people change. You can’t make yourself change. People make choices based on the best information they have available, according the concerns most pressing at the time. What’s more, we biologically constructed to resist and avoid change. Change equals the unknown. And we have deep genetic programming to avoid the unknown and stick…
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. – C.S. Lewis Each move forward requires letting go of a bar to reach forward to the next one. So it is with life. To move forward we must let go…
If you want to get the best out of a person you must look for the best that is in him. – Bernard Haldane Which would you rather have: a boss who doesn’t know you very well and doesn’t give you challenging or interesting assignments, or one that gets to know you and asks you…
Whenever I think about the challenges of the World, and what the solutions might be, I sometimes get frustrated, or at least dismayed. I see the validity of parts of the claims of so many of the “reasonable” parties in the discussion, but give up in trying to reconcile the disparate positions. The answer is…
Many people are not living the lives they really want (myself* included). One of the reasons people don’t is because they think they should be able to just do it, but they know they aren’t ready. This creates a short little “despair loop” which takes the person out of possibility and back to “reality.” The truth…
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. – Henry Miller Sometimes we have to surrender. We need to give our selves to what we truly want and what we’re really capable of, to break free of the lives we have created so far. As…