Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it. – Sam Ewing
Mr. Ewing offers an interesting formula.
But could there be more?
Or something different?
Maybe: do your best, for the right people, in a way that matters to you and them and everyone will like it.
“You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.” – Henry Louis Mencken Where has your life narrowed? Where is it shallow? What do you want instead?
Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. What stops you from doing something different? Something “scary?” I’m not talking about stupid risks that don’t have any personal meaning, but those things that you know will help you to learn, grow and prosper. What is…
It does not matter how slowly you go up, so long as you don’t stop – Confucius Just. Keep. Moving. No matter how scary or daunting or uncertain, just keep moving. (Of course, I don’t mean move just to be in motion, but in general, keep moving.)
Change the belief, and the thinking automatically changes. Change the thinking, and the action changes. Change the action, and the result changes. So here’s the key: depending on the results you personally want, align your beliefs with the desired outcome. – John Assraf There’s really little I can add here, other than: if you are…
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less. – C.S. Lewis So many people (or at least the ones with enough self-awareness) get this wrong. They think, consciously or otherwise, that they need to make themselves smaller, or lesser, to be “humble.” It’s a mistake of thinking. You’re amazing. You have…