Walking Out of Safety

This video is amazing. Please watch it. I wish we had stuff like this in my country… Care to venture a guess as to why such a video – both the content and the style – is so unlikely in the USA? (This is an intentionally short post as I didn’t want to take away from the video’s…

Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations. – Cavett Robert In many respects its better to set a goal and fail to achieve it fully, than to accomplish exactly what you set out to do. The latter means you didn’t stretch yourself. And…

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. – Abraham Maslow I would edit Maslow’s suggestion a bit and suggest that rather than (concerning ourselves with) “overcoming fear,” that we focus on its opposite: love. Choose growth…

It is irrational to expect someone to change his or her behavior based on nonexistent feedback. – John A. Allison I’ve often heard, and sometimes said, “You can only fix the problems you know about.” While I could go into awareness and the importance of paying attention and asking good questions, I’d rather alert you…

People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. – Earl Nightingale Doing what I do and having read what I’ve read, I’ve noticed that there’s a great deal of debate on how to do goals properly. But what I’ve found is that the great “difference” isn’t between the different ways to set and achieve…

Love is always bestowed as a gift — freely, willingly, and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved, we love to love. – Dr. Leo Buscaglia Just a gentle reminder of what we can’t remember enough.