I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful. – Johann Sebastian Bach
Even Bach had to work his butt off.
Our bodies and minds are made for work, hard work, and creativity, and sometimes making the impossible real.
Do the work.
Earn the rewards.
For Bach it was beautiful, amazing music.
What’s your music?
Trustworthy. Respectable. Admirable. * * * Leadership, more than anything, is a personal relationship between leader and led. It’s not a hierarchical relationship, where one person has power and the other none. Sure, a leader must be technically savvy and proficient, s/he must know “the business,” but at its core, its most fundamental, leadership is…
I subscribe to Steve Chandler’s e-mails (you should too). Because I’m not feeling terribly inspired, but unwilling to not write a blog post, I am just going to pass along something recent from Steve: Selling myself on “the way I am” keeps me locked in my own fearful childhood. I become heavy with a false claim…
Are you making a “living” with some life thrown in here-and-there, when possible? Or, are you making a “life,” with some work thrown in? * * * I understand that I might be mis-stating the proportions a bit, but the point is worth considering. * * * When we “make a living,” at least in…
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. – Peter F. Drucker There’s a little saying that I like to remind myself of: How You Do One Thing Is How You Do Everything. Many may disagree, but it’s very useful for me. It reminds me that when I slack off, or do a…
I am trying something different on Fridays: I am going to offer an external resource for your education and evolution. I imagine most of these offerings will be videos and may require you to set aside a bit of time to view (like when you have your coffee on Saturday morning… ). The inaugural offering…
It’s merely a component of power. Knowledge is no more power than flour is a cake. Flour, with other specific ingredients, combined in a specific order and manner and prepared in a particular way, results in a cake. So it is with knowledge. When you combine knowledge with other key ingredients, such as awareness, intention…