When you make a mistake, the first time, and it costs you (and it will cost you something), learn from it and call it (the cost) tuition.
If you make the same mistake, and it costs you (and it always does, in some way), it’s a tax (and the mistake (i.e. lesson) will keep showing up until you learn it).
Tuition is an investment, and makes you more. A tax is a cost, and a drain.
Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil. – Anonymous The mind loves clarity. Without clarity the mind – actually, our emotions – reverts to safety. Safety, for our emotional brain (the limbic system), is habit and routines and whatever has been shown to contribute to our survival (even if…
“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…
The solution of the problem that you see in life is to live in a way that will make what is problematic disappear. – Ludvig Wittgenstein You can either solve problems, or you repress them. When you solve a problem you address, fully and completely, it’s cause. When you (merely) repress a problem, you will see it…
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop Because, regardless of what happens outside of you, when you’re kind, you chip away at any hardness covering over your soul.
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. – Eddie Cantor People don’t realize that things take time. Becoming takes work. Do the work. Become not just what you might be, become what you truly desire to be. Do. The. Work.
Clarity + Commitment + Action + Iteration = Results Clarity – you must know what, exactly, you are seeking. To the extent you are unclear, you will founder, be frustrated, less-than-effective and even choose, or stop at, the wrong thing (because it resembles what you said you wanted . . . ) Commitment – You…