Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become. – Jim Rohn
Trying to be “successful” is like trying be at your destination while on the journey.
You can’t be anywhere other than where you are.
You don’t get to successful, you do the things that create success.
And you keep doing them.
Success then finds you . . . .
“People die of fright and live of confidence.” – Thoreau I think Thoreau, among other things, was speaking of courage here. Confidence is what results when courage (being afraid, but taking a reasonable risk anyway) is combined with purpose (the energy that comes from knowing what we want and why we want it). Is courage…
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. – Josh Billings Life is perfect. “Perfect” in the sense that everything happens because of the choices each of us makes, and the combination and accumulation of all of our choices. Things are perfect because they cannot be any other way….
Are you disaster-tolerant? (Do you have reserves?) This question is well-posed in Seth Godin’s blog post (here it is in its entirety): Not all disasters can be avoided. Not all disasters are fatal. If you accept these two truths, your approach to risk will change. If you build a disaster-tolerant nation or project or lifestyle,…
Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is. – Publilius Syrus Language is everything to our lives. How we talk about who we are, what we want and what we get is so, so important. The question is: how is your speech? Do you build yourself up, or tear…
In this post I am, as they say, going to get real. Maybe in sharing something I’ve kept to myself I can face the truth of it. I am going to talk about a situation going on my life right now. Something I’m struggling with and something that I want to “put out there” in…
Wilderness is not a luxury, but a necessity of the human spirit. – Edward Abbey You are not made of metal or plastic. You are made of nature. You must regularly, and consciously, return to nature to renew your connection to what you are. Nurture your spirit with what it is – be in nature.