What Happiness Is

I was just watching a class promo video by Brian Johnson and needed to quickly share a point he made about one way we develop greater trust/confidence in ourselves. He talked about how the Identity > Action > Feelings (IAF) progression works in helping us to develop high levels of confidence (and skills, etc.). When…

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. – Aristotle What we do makes us. The idea of “muscle-memory” applies to character and life skills as much as it does to playing tennis or baseball….

“No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.” – Brian Tracy (Just about) Anything you want to do has…

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. – Chuck Close If you wait to “be inspired,” you will likely end up waiting a good long while. Instead, get to work, get in motion and make your own inspiration. Create it. Do you need to choose carefully, doing…

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. You don’t have charge of the constellations, but you do have charge of whether you read, develop new skills, or take new classes. – Jim Rohn You can…

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. – Jim Rohn Sometimes people get confused about how to be successful. They think it takes something they don’t have, things others were born with. It’s just not so. First, success is an individual thing and second it’s a process. Success is what you decide it be (even if…