The Truth About Perspective
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. – Henry Kaiser
As with everything, it’s all about perspective.
See trouble and you’ll have a problem.
See opportunity and you’ll dig in.
What are you going to look for, now?
You can do anything, but not everything. – David Allen But, you must choose. But, you must know what you truly want. Anything you truly want, you can do. You can create anything you want enough and understand enough. You have to want enough it to do the work. You have to understand enough it to…
As a human being* with both a cerebral** and a limbic*** brain, the ability to accurately, and resourcefully, interpret and assign meaning to events and circumstance may well be the master skill of living well. * * * How do you interpret and understand your life? Its events and results and your thoughts and feelings?…
According to Webster’s New Twentieth Century Dictionary (Unabridged, Second Edition) there are 16 definitions of character; I will list those relevant here: 7. an individual’s pattern of behavior or personality; moral constitution; 8. moral strength, self-discipline, fortitude, etc.; 9. reputation; 12. a statement about the behavior, qualities, etc. of a person; recommendation. What character does is…
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. – Sir Edmund Hilary Extraordinary is not something you achieve, or arrive at, or can even purchase. It’s something that you become. You become extraordinary by what you do. Or is it? * * * As Sir Edmund says, you do extraordinary things…
The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score. – Bill Copeland No, not that sort of “scoring!” I mean do you know when you’ve accomplished something important? Something of value, to you? Without goals, you won’t know.
If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining. – Guy Finley Literally and figuratively. Where do you stand? * * * In terms of the literal bit, where are you? Are you doing work you care about? In a place and with people that connect you…