The Truth About Perspective

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?…

Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning. – Winston Churchill Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s acting anyway. Where are you afraid, where you could act anyway? Which of your fears are just excuses?

You don’t get by what you do, you receive because of who you are. So many people operate from the first part of the above. They think that if they do the right things they will get what they want. And it’s true that you can do certain things and you will tend to “get”…

May you live all the days of your life. – Jonathan Swift I sometimes say that the past is good as a textbook, and the future a place to dream into, but the only place anything actually happens is right now. Now is when you live. Imagine the smallest unit of time/experience. That’s “now.” That…

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not…

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want go far, you have to go with others – Dale Brown The interesting thing, the truth that is sometimes hard to grasp (and accept) is that just about anything worth working on and having, requires partnership and collaboration. Yes, there are things that you…