The Necessity of Door-Building
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. – Milton Berle
Self-explanatory…
“One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you’ll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.” – Earl Nightingale Interestingly, I think Earl wrote this before Malcolm…
Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left. – Hubert Humphrey People discount themselves all the time. Unfortunately many focus on what’s gone wrong or what they don’t have or what seems out-of-reach. It’s the focus that causes the problem. We have…
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible. For the fainthearted, it is unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is ideal. – Victor Hugo Language is the basis and currency of our thoughts and mental life. What we name things, and continue to call them, are what they become and remain….
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…
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. – Albert Einstein Why? What is it about “big dreams” that trumps having “all the facts?” Facts, to some degree, are necessary, but they are indeed insufficient. Without the emotional power…
Any regular reader of this blog knows I am a big Seth Godin fan. I just read another great post on his blog (you can read it here). In the post he talks about the resistance of (certain factions in) business to important changes. One example being the elimination of child labor and the complaint…