The Power of Your Environment

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. – Napoleon Hill You have more at your command than you relaize. You’re more skilled than you think. You. Are….

“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” – Seth Godin Pretty self-explanatory, but I’ll buttress the sentiment with what is arguably my personal motto* (borrowed from Viv Savage, the keyboard player in This Is Spinal Tap): “Have a good time, all…

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. – Anaïs Nin We each create our own Reality, with our thoughts. Thoughts are basis and stuff of our entire experience. Thoughts beget emotions. Thoughts beget beliefs. With thought we create our rules and standards. Thought is how we parse, understand, make…

In terms of what you do, I mean? Should you, as so many say, love what you do? Read this article and come back . . . . *  *  * So, what do you think? Has your answer changed, or evolved even? I think, as the author does as well (in his own way),…

While folding laundry just now I had a powerful thought. I realized – not for the first time, certainly – that one’s philosophy is so, so important to quality of life and results. In terms of “philosophy,” I am speaking of our personal philosophy: the set of beliefs we have about ourselves, others and what is possible….

Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out. Tennessee Williams The Japanese word Kaizen means (small and continuous) improvement. The making better of things, over time. Rather than confronting issues, problems and long-festering wounds “head-on” with a Hollywood-action-movie-like-grandiosity, what if you identified a particular component of an issue or problem or long-festering wound and took…