Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. – Peter F. Drucker
This is the essence of leadership, and success in any endeavor.
When a thing is compromised at the outset, it can never be as good as it could have been – and those associated don’t have as great an opportunity to grow as they could have.
86,400 seconds in a day. 10, 080 minutes in a week. ~730 hours in an average month. We all have same amount of time. Time, while relative in its experience, is constant in its duration. There is no adding time. Or slowing it down when we need more. Time is a constant. It is unmanageable…
Right now something amazing is happening in my life. Something I wanted for a long time. Something I wasn’t ready for earlier in my life, but am ready for now. Something really, really special. * * * But it might not be happening. There’s a chance that had one tiny thing gone differently in my…
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. – Winston Churchill We often think we have the right strategy, usually because it isn’t creating something painful or terrible, but don’t regularly examine our results. It’s a form of floating through life that’s really just avoiding pain. Sure, we make some plans and…
Everyone (in self-help and related fields), it seems, talks about “loving-what-you-do.” And how they have the formula/process/program/book to help you do it. It’s bad advice and a disservice to promise such. Putting aside my theory about how purpose is not outside us and nothing we need discover or create (it’s within and covered by by “crap”)…
We are like the little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting we are the tree—deeply rooted to withstand all life’s upheavals. – Dodinsky When the winds of change and challenge blow, remember you are the tree. The strong, flexible tree, able to bend and not break, to both sway with…
Are our lives the result of fate or do we choose our lives? Are we consigned to what our circumstances (/our pasts) allow for in the unfolding of our lives, or can we create our lives, can we be willful? I just watched an interesting video from Marshall Goldsmith that offers a (hybrid) answer: Yes. I…