The Life You’re Living
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living? – Bob Marley
Well . . . ?
Are you satisfied?
Less than three minutes in to the latest episode of the Good Life Project I heard something that I had to write about. In introducing how he went from soccer-playing college freshman from the ‘burbs to immersed in indigenous Amazonian culture, Tyler Gage talks about how stewardship was part of the language of an indigenous tribe he was “with.” It…
You don’t have to be great to start. But you have to start to be great. – Zig Ziglar Zig’s down-home (often ‘aww-shucks’) words are f’ing genius. So often he can say in a sentence (and not a long one at that) what others take paragraphs or pages to say. His words above are your…
So, I watching the “The Good Wife” the other day and a lawyer who was leaving her current firm and highly-sought-after by many firms meets with Alicia (the main character) and asks: “What do you want?” Alicia’s reply (all the more honest as she had had a couple beers just recently) was: “I want to…
One is dependent on the outside world to the extent that they believe what they need is outside themselves. If you are sufficiently in touch with your core power and peace there is nothing that anyone can deny that will hurt or upset you. The first, and most important thing, is to renew that connection…
Either what happens changes our mood… or our mood changes the way we narrate what happens. – Seth Godin People don’t seem to understand that we can either be blown about by the winds of circumstance or we can feel the winds of life, know that it’s sometimes windy and figure out how to use…
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. – W. Somerset Maugham I said “money” in the title because I think that’s the key factor at play. One of my limiting beliefs about…