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“In the long run, men only hit what they aim at.” – Henry David Thoreau You must have goals. Without goals you’ll live your life by default and circumstance (I like to say you’ll be in a rut, not a groove . . . ). You will merely be reacting to what happens, missing opportunities…

I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But, I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan People fear failure. They worry that things won’t turn out just like they want, so they do little, or nothing And it hurts. It really, really hurts. Not getting-punched-in-the-mouth-by-Mike-Tyson-hurt, but a hurt just as bad. What doesn’t actually hurt…

I was reading a recent AdvantEdge newsletter from Nightingale Conant and wanted to excerpt a paragraph from something Zig Ziglar wrote about discipline: Stay Disciplined in your Approach In today’s social climate, many people look with disfavor on the word discipline because they simply do not understand that discipline means “to instruct or educate, to…

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people. – Earl Nightingale We often get confused about things “work.” So often we think we have to have all the answers and all the know-how and all the resources (often before we even start . . ….

You’ve heard the saying “everything happens for a reason?” Well, nothing happens for a reason as well.* Just as there are no accidents in the Universe, and all effects have their causes, all lack-of-effects have their not-causes. Whatever we do or don’t have in our lives is the result of what we do or don’t…

I was listening to a Fresh Air interview with Dean Norris recently when he said something that really struck a chord. He was talking about how he prepared for a shoot-out scene in the (amazingly excellent ) television show Breaking Bad (he portrays a DEA agent). Norris relates that most law enforcement officers do not fire their weapons in…