Seen On The Back of My Business Card – 1 of 4

“If you want to have good ideas, you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.” – Linus Pauling To learn how to know which ideas to throw away you must take action. Without wondering what will happen if you perform…

Recently I was watching the Tavis Smiley show and he mentioned to a guest something his grandmother used to say: “There’s a lesson and blessing in everything.” Now, of course, the lesson can be hard to see (and accept) sometimes, and is usually more evident later, but the blessing can be almost impossible to see…

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. – Cicero Putting aside whether life is a “race, and what sort of race it is if we see as such, we must believe in ourselves. There’s really not much…

People die of fright and live of confidence. – Henry David Thoreau Fright, dread, (dis)stress, angst, anxiety . . . fear is caustic, it’s poisonous, it’s not good for your soul. Confidence, hope, joy, determination, self-assurance, faith . . . love is life-giving, it’s what feeds your soul. What matters here is focus. What you…

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King *  *  * “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi *  *  * “Forgiveness is the final form of love.” – Reinhold Niebuhr…

. . . a little thin I’ll admit (so glad the “Cognitive and Physical Knowledge” post was drafted days ago) — I was focused on a special report I was writing. If you would like a copy so you can see what had me so distracted, leave a comment or click on the “contact” button on…