The Best Reason to Love

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie One of the most important skills in life is knowing the difference. And knowing the difference for you.

Our mindset is everything. How and what we think about everything matters. It’s not enough to say that mindset creates our lives (although it does), it’s more accurate to say that mindset is our lives. To help understand mindset I want to share an idea I had the other day. I want to share a progression…

A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. – Tom Stoppard The great thing about stepping up and creating a great attitude within yourself, about modeling behavior, is that it confers (at least) two benefits: one you get to feel better and be more effective when you focus…

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. – Marcus Aurelius The simple truth of these words is SO powerful. Whatever you’re feeling is the result of what you think…

Fear’s useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn’t: If it doesn’t, you’ve wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you’ve wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons. – Sarah Brennan There’s a difference between fear/being-scared and recognizing danger. *** What’s more, in a meta sense, the ability to notice and…

I recently read a post on Johnny B. Truant’s blog that really hit home. So much so that I wanted to do two things: share it with my readers and 2) think on and write about each piece of his post. The post is “20 Truths About Life No One Wants To Believe” and the next one…