If we don’t change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed. – Ancient Chinese Proverb
Where are you headed?
Do you really want to get there?
Chances are you don’t, at least not completely.
Yes, there are things you like about your life, but some you definitely don’t.
Be brave.
Be true to your inner knowing.
Make the course-correction(s) necessary to head where you really want to go – in all the areas of your life that count.
Character is much easier kept than recovered. – Thomas Paine Just as it’s easier to keep an existing customer than to acquire a new one, character and trust is much, much, much harder to recover once it’s is lost than it is to maintain. Therefore, resolve to live in such a way: That you don’t…
It’s merely a component of power. Knowledge is no more power than flour is a cake. Flour, with other specific ingredients, combined in a specific order and manner and prepared in a particular way, results in a cake. So it is with knowledge. When you combine knowledge with other key ingredients, such as awareness, intention…
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw The only thing you’ll “find” when you look for yourself is who you were. That kind of thinking puts you, and points towards, the past. Nothing can be done, or made, or created, in the past.* Look to create yourself. That happens in…
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. – Washington Irving Every moment we have a choice: to learn and grow or to resist and decay. We can be passive and at the mercy of circumstance or we can be active and create our lives. It all starts in…
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. – Thomas Jefferson I’ve blogged on this one before, but it bears repeating. To achieve a good attitude is necessary, but not sufficient. The wrong attitude however, will negate everything…
This video is longer than most that I’ve posted here, but well worth your time. I draw on Tony’s work in my coaching all the time: work intensely, with no distractions and then rest; eat well; sleep enough… The key take-away from Tony’s work is that (more) time cannot be created, but energy can be,…