What is Wisdom?

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill What’s more, and perhaps more important, is: whatever the mind can conceive, but can’t believe, will never be attempted.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. – Les Brown  The key is to understand that there’s a huge difference between responsibility and blame. When you accept responsibility for your life you acknowledge your role (whatever it was) in creating…

You don’t have to be great to start. But you have to start to be great. – Zig Ziglar Zig’s down-home (often ‘aww-shucks’) words are f’ing genius. So often he can say in a sentence (and not a long one at that) what others take paragraphs or pages to say. His words above are your…

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. – Vince Lombardi Clarity. That’s where will, and its power, comes from. When you’re clear on what you want, and why you want it, there’s little-to-nothing that can stop you.

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Excellence is doing the right things. Wisdom is doing them them at the right time. Practice is how both happen. *  *  * The little…

There’s a place between not taking consistent action on a goal and being unable or unwilling to release said goal. I call this place the Nasty Middle. If I can get real with you for a minute I find myself in the “nasty middle” on something. My weight. I say I want to weigh less… that…