We are like the little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting we are the tree—deeply rooted to withstand all life’s upheavals. – Dodinsky
When the winds of change and challenge blow, remember you are the tree.
The strong, flexible tree, able to bend and not break, to both sway with the wind and stand tall in the calm.
Remember.
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. – Jonas Salk We are made to love, to create, to work and toil and then recover, recharge and appreciate and begin again. The only way we get to begin again is to finish what we start. So, work hard, finish,…
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. – Jim Rohn Sometimes people get confused about how to be successful. They think it takes something they don’t have, things others were born with. It’s just not so. First, success is an individual thing and second it’s a process. Success is what you decide it be (even if…
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. – William Shakespeare So many people put the power for what happens to them outside themselves. What’s more they think that their lives are determined by some fuzzy thing called fate. Fate being the amalgamation of other people’s decisions, the vagaries of…
I was just watching a video by Brian Johnson where he was talking about Steve Chandler‘s (excellent) book Wealth Warrior (I highly recommend you watching the video (especially the bit about the dominoes) and reading Steve’s book). About 7:50 in he starts talking about our Current reality and our imagined Ideal; he used the idea of a…
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. – Peter F. Drucker There’s a little saying that I like to remind myself of: How You Do One Thing Is How You Do Everything. Many may disagree, but it’s very useful for me. It reminds me that when I slack off, or do a…
“A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.” – Zig Ziglar So many people wonder why they don’t advance as quickly as they’d like (or advance at all… ). A likely explanation is they aren’t working very hard, or they are working at the wrong things. Working effectively,…