“Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.” – Robert Orben
[Warning: edginess ahead… ]
Implicit in the above is having a plan for the flight of of your time. Otherwise, all you have is the best seat in the house for the level of mediocrity you’ve cultivated thus far.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely* try to help another without helping himself. – Emerson Everything is sticky, whether you’re generous or stingy, helpful and conniving, thoughtful or selfish, . . . everything rubs off on you. Be very careful what you rub up against – whether it’s…
“You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.” – Harvey Firestone No one will follow, willingly and to the best of their abilities and capacities, someone they don’t believe in. People recognize character and integrity, and even more easily, its absence. Before anyone — be they a CEO, parent…
You can’t make people change. You can’t make yourself change. People make choices based on the best information they have available, according the concerns most pressing at the time. What’s more, we biologically constructed to resist and avoid change. Change equals the unknown. And we have deep genetic programming to avoid the unknown and stick…
“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” – Oscar Wilde Success is assembling certain components of thought and action in a certain order. “Failure” is what you get when you have the wrong components, or the wrong order, or both. Either way, you get results. Just keep tweaking until…
When it comes time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived. – Henry David Thoreau A great way to live while you’re alive (something I love to say and think about… ) is to write your obituary, as you would like it to read. Write an account of your life that…
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. – Hugh Downs It’s not what’s around you, but what’s within you.