What Will You Choose?

It is more important to reach our potential than it is to reach our goals. – Max de Pree What could be more important than goals? Becoming who we are truly capable of being. I remember being asked what my greatest fear was once and all I could come up with is not living up…

There are seven days in a week and Someday isn’t one of them. – Unknown Whatever you want to do. Whatever you want to create. Whatever you want to become. Whatever relationship you want to start or repair. Begin now. Take some action now. The first step though, often isn’t the first step (at least…

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – William Jennings Bryan We can let circumstance accumulate or we can design our lives. We can do enough to get by or we can act…

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. – Jim Rohn And change is hard. Change is easier, slightly, when approached authentically* and gradually.** Change takes hard work. Sustained, daily, hard work. Get started, now. The time is going to pass anyway, and you’re going to be doing something anyway. *…

I have long thought about, and emphasized the importance of, understanding how the three sub-systems of our brain (reptilian, limbic and cortex) work together (and sometimes don’t)  in creating our experience of life. Our experience can be made better, optimized even, if we bring sufficient understanding of how our brain works and awareness to our…

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…