RIP: Wayne Dyer

There is no such thing as a ‘self-made’ man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success. – George Burton…

“Dream as if you’ll live forever.* Live as if you’ll die today.**” – James Dean Speaks for itself… (Keeping it short and sweet today.) * Sounds like something Kahlil Gibran might say. ** Sounds like something Buddha might say.

This Friday’s external resource is not a TED Talk, but instead from Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge blog. In a very interesting post Francesca Gino talks about how and why we get side-tracked. Why, despite out best efforts, we don’t follow though as we plan, or sometimes, not at all. Click here to read the post.

Everything hard was impossible, until someone did it. What’s “impossible” for you? What was once “impossible” for you? The only thing you need is to believe you can start. You don’t have to believe you can finish, or succeed, just some clarity that it’s worth starting. After you start, just keep going until either 1)…

If my Reality is how I experience the World, and how I experience the World determines what I feel and do, and I create my Reality then I can feel and do whatever I want. I had the above though the other in response to something I read and wanted to unpack it here a…

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…