The Beauty of Challenges

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. – Epicurus I would tweak the above and say: instead of craving what you don’t have, set goals based on your best guess of what else you might want…

I was reading a blog post from Seth Godin and about 2/3rds of the way through, he said the following: Stop engaging with the false theory that the best way to stop feeling like a failure is to succeed. – Seth Godin It hit me like a ton of bricks. Sometimes you have to identify…

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. – John Lubbock There’s so much “out there,” but what you see is depends on what you look for. It also depends on what you’re willing to see. *  *  * What do you look for? What are you willing to see? The answer to those…

The world is full of people who want to change, who say they need to change, but remain stuck.* I look at one of those people in the mirror every day.                   The above chart illustrates someone who says his Ideal Weight is one number and, yet,…

The enemy of creativity… is fear. We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up. – Seth Godin But you’ve got to make the first move. You need to be creative. Otherwise…

If we don’t start, it’s certain we can’t arrive. – Jim Rohn What stops you from starting? How can you begin? What’s more important than the (false) safety of staying still?