The Only Way We See

We are kept from our goal not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal. – Robert Brault This quote came into my Inbox from one of my mentors (Steve Chandler). It offers a powerful nuance to viewing goals: the idea that, often, what keeps us from our larger, lofty – amazing – goals…

Our aspirations are our possibilities. – Robert Browning We never reach further than we are willing to look. Whether or not something is beyond your grasp is irrelvevant. Reach anyway – you’ll grow in the stretching.

Imagine life is a concert. Where’s your seat? Are you in the middle of the lower level, about 30 or so rows back (one of the best places to hear music)? Or are you way back? In one of the last rows, tucked in the corner? Perhaps you’re not even inside the venue!?  Maybe you’re around…

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. – Cicero Putting aside whether life is a “race, and what sort of race it is if we see as such, we must believe in ourselves. There’s really not much…

Happiness is a journey, not a destination. For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin—real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. At last it dawned on…

Do not count the days; make the days count. – Muhammad Ali Counting the days is splitting your time between the past and the future. Usually it’s wishing the days gone by were different and hoping the days to come are better. Living well and achieving is all about being-in-the-moment and making each moment – each…