The Mind is Everything
The mind is everything. What you think you become. – Buddha
An oldie, but a goodie.
And still true.
“You want to become aware of your thoughts, you want to choose your thoughts carefully, and you want to have fun with this, because you are the masterpiece of your own life.” – Joe Vitale The truth is our thoughts are really, really important. But, because it’s often hard for us – in practice, over…
“There is a secret psychology of money. Most people don’t know about it. That’s why most people never become financially successful. A lack of money is not the problem; it is merely a symptom of what’s going on inside of you.” – T. Harv Eker If your car ran out gas, and you needed to…
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. – C.S. Lewis Each move forward requires letting go of a bar to reach forward to the next one. So it is with life. To move forward we must let go…
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. – Albert Einstein As a coach I am very curious. I ask a lot of questions. I am always reminding myself to wonder and be curious, to ask clients, and myself: “What else might that mean…?” “How does that happen… ?” “Could you see that…
Not everything requires (just) “action.” So often the result of considering a problem or goal is asking: “What are you going to do about it?” It’s a useful question, for the most part. But it’s a micro strategy. Long-standing problems or significant goals require something more than micro – they require a combination of mindset,…
Before I let you go for the weekend, here’s something I found on Darren Hardy’s Facebook page: You get in life what you create. Expectation drives the creative process. What do you expect? You expect whatever it is you’re thinking about. Your thought process, the conversation in your head, is at the base of the…