The Mind is Everything

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score. – Bill Copeland No, not that sort of “scoring!” I mean do you know when you’ve accomplished something important? Something of value, to you? Without goals, you won’t know.

In case you were wondering what the back of my new business card looks like, here it is:                    

It’s 8:45 PM and I need a blog post for tomorrow. I could just blow it off, but I made a commitment to post every weekday. Sometimes I don’t have the motivation/inspiration/will-power to write a substantial, original, blog post (most times, really). Tonight is not only one of those times, but I don’t even have the wherewithal…

He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything. – Benjamin Franklin How ya feeling? Good I hope. But I want to look at health from a slightly different perspective. Most people take the question “How’s your health?” to mean: how are you feeling physically and, perhaps, how are you in…

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. – Gandhi Will, and its more common usage, willpower, is much talked about – and much mis-understood. People think will-power is something they need to get from outside themselves, and once they have it, they need to strengthen it and maintain it. Our…

I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful. – Johann Sebastian Bach Even Bach had to work his butt off. Our bodies and minds are made for work, hard work, and creativity, and sometimes making the impossible real. Do the work. Earn the rewards. For Bach it was…