The Power of Your Environment

Character is much easier kept than recovered. – Thomas Paine Whatever it takes to earn the esteem and trust is but a fraction of what it takes to rebuild yourself in the eyes of others. And that’s assuming it’s even possible. Sometimes, once you lose the confidence of people it can be impossible to get…

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. – Michael Altshuler Actually, there is no bad news. You’re in charge. You always have been, just sometimes you haven’t been at your best. But you can do better. You can always do better. You can create a flight plan for your…

Make sure you take the time to regularly schedule nothing. If you’re in the habit of always scheduling something, of filling your schedule, make sure you take time for nothing. Not “nothing” in an absolute sense, but times where you just relax or practice being present, with no particular agenda, maybe with a certain (restorative/renewing)…

“Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.” – Earl Nightingale I written about this before and it’s no less true now. Despite my sometimes best-efforts to deny this truth, I know we are all connected. What we create is simultaneously completely our own and…

“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word,…

. . . and not a camera. We project our thoughts and “sense-of-things” onto the World. Nothing in the world is stressful, or difficult, or complicated or beautiful, elegant or amazing. As Shakespeare said: “for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” We think we see things, but we really just…