The Best Within Us

At the end of each you should play back the tapes of your performance. The result should either applaud you or prod you. – Jim Rohn The only time we should spend in the past is to review, understand and learn. Once we have done so, it is time to imagine what we want to…

beautiful, amazing, challenging, rewarding, what you make it, fantastic, boring, excellent, fun, exciting, the sum of our choices so far, breathtaking, dull, to be savored, tough, just what we see, just too busy, pre-destined, much more than meets the eye, simple, complex, easy, hard, to be endured, for our enjoyment, a series of challenges, easy,…

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less. – C.S. Lewis So many people (or at least the ones with enough self-awareness) get this wrong. They think, consciously or otherwise, that they need to make themselves smaller, or lesser, to be “humble.” It’s a mistake of thinking. You’re amazing. You have…

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson You are responsible for what you think, what you feel and what you do. What you think, what you feel and what you do determines what you create, who you become and the legacy you leave. Just as important: your…

Everybody’s heard the saying “That which does not kill you makes you stronger,” Nietzsche I believe said it, or something very similar. It’s wrong though, or at least woefully incomplete. (Or, it’s incomplete in the way we use the words these days.) Nowadays people think that if bad stuff happens to you, you get stronger….

Practice is the best of all instructors. – Publius Syrus In fact, it is really the only true instructor in that you only actually learn something when you actually do* the thing. *  *  * * And the more you do it, the deeper the learning.