If you want something you’ve never had, then you need to do something you’ve never done. – Ian Knabel
This is true because what you’ve been “getting” is perfectly in-line with what you’ve been doing.
Even if it’s just a slight tweak, you must adapt and learn and do new things if you want your life to change.
There’s no way around it; more of the same will get you more of the same.
I was reading a recent AdvantEdge newsletter from Nightingale Conant and wanted to excerpt a paragraph from something Zig Ziglar wrote about discipline: Stay Disciplined in your Approach In today’s social climate, many people look with disfavor on the word discipline because they simply do not understand that discipline means “to instruct or educate, to…
While reading this afternoon I came across something interesting: in addition to the Golden Rule (which everyone knows about) and the Platinum Rule (which I learned about in the last couple years, and few know about), there’s the Silver Rule (which hardly anyone knows about, and I didn’t until about 3:00 PM). As we know,…
Never confuse movement with action. – Ernest Hemingway We’ve all had a nice three-day weekend (well, most of us, here in the USA) and we’re headed back to “work” today. * * * As you do so, regularly ask yourself if what you’re doing is useful? Valuable? Building your skills and abilities? Bringing value to…
Genius . . . means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.” – William James So much of our thinking is habitual. With very little actual variation, we think the same thoughts, about the same things, in the same way – day after day. Because so much of the World’s thinking is rote…
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. – Albert Einstein Attachments, as any Buddhist will tell you, are – at the very least – problematic. So, if you’re going to hang your “future hat” on anything, hang it on a goal. (Not people as they are…
Below is an e-mail message I received from a mentor of mine, Steve Chandler. I was inspired to add my take on his inspiring – and useful – message. * * * Rather than being fearless, which as Steve outlines below, is a bit of an impossibility, why not be love-ful? Sure, being “courageous” or “bold” or…