A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. – B. F. Skinner
Where do you think you’ve “failed?”
Have you given up on “that?”
What if you took what you learned and began again, more intelligently?
What if you didn’t stop trying?
We say we want things, but there’s a way to determine what we really want. Look at what we have. Whatever it is we are creating in our lives is what we want. * * * That said, in the absence of clear and authentic desires and goals, we have a default want. One that…
If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough. – Vince Lombardi If you’re not making mistakes: you’re playing it safe; you’re playing small; you’re not using all your talents and abilities; you’re wasting the gift that is your life; you’re living in a way that you’ll feel guilty about later; you’re . ….
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Excellence is doing the right things. Wisdom is doing them them at the right time. Practice is how both happen. * * * The little…
I have a theory about where much of our behavior comes from. I trot it out often, maybe too often . . . . But this theory does have value, even if seen again as an abstraction. What I mean is that if I distill this theory and its “implications” I can arrive at something useful,…
. . . a little thin I’ll admit (so glad the “Cognitive and Physical Knowledge” post was drafted days ago) — I was focused on a special report I was writing. If you would like a copy so you can see what had me so distracted, leave a comment or click on the “contact” button on…
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson Results are important, no doubt. But the measure of our lives, and their direction can’t always be discerned at the end of each day, or week, or month. I want you to be careful with my…