Seven Deadly Sins

“Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.” – Thomas Paine And the enemy’s greatest ally are the lies we tell ourselves. When we keep our promises, to ourselves, the internal battle fades to nothing.

Watch your habits; they become character. – Lao Tzu Watch your habits of thinking, acting, eating, speaking, drinking, moving, . . . you become that.

FYI: While I don’t normally comment on current social issues or the like, I felt compelled to here. *  *  * I just saw a post on Facebook talking about how, in an effort to remember one’s child in the car seat, one leaves their left shoe on the seat next to the baby. That…

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your troubles you wouldn’t sit for a month. – Theodore Roosevelt There really little I can add here. We are not responsible for what others do, but we are responsible for who we have in our lives. We are not responsible for…

The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled…

I was recently thinking about the nature of “success.” Of course, it’s a process and a journey and not a “completion” or a destination, but how can we better understand the process, the journey of “success?” Well, I came up with three phases, each marked by three key ideas: Responsibility, Maturity and Wisdom. *  *…