Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
What stops you from doing something different?
Something “scary?”
I’m not talking about stupid risks that don’t have any personal meaning, but those things that you know will help you to learn, grow and prosper.
What is stopping you from doing those things?
Go get you some fruit . . .
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein Success is an abstract, relative term. It’s a made-up thing, it doesn’t actually exist anywhere, like “time.” (You can show me a clock, but you can’t show me time . . . .) And it…
Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead. – Tom Peters The only job security, if there is such a thing, is intelligently growing your skills and abilities to meet future challenges and opportunities with ambition, capability and capacity. What your learning plan? How are you growing?
If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you. – Steve Jobs How much are you resisting what you do? How many “have-tos” do you have in your life? Ideally, life is a collection, and series of, “get-tos.” What do you get…
You can do anything, but not everything. – David Allen But, you must choose. But, you must know what you truly want. Anything you truly want, you can do. You can create anything you want enough and understand enough. You have to want enough it to do the work. You have to understand enough it to…
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…
Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves. – Robert Frost One of the things that gets in the way of our strength is how we mask, deny, subjugate and otherwise dis-empower our true selves. Our true self is a well-spring of power, and creativity, and industry and, most importantly,…