I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. – Albert Einstein So many people associate curiosity with research or innovation, but it has a (wonderful) personal application: How can you be curious about yourself, who you are, what you want and how you can get it? When you use curiosity in this way,…
There is the timeless, changeless core: our humanity — that which we truly ARE, what we have always been (regardless of our (sometimes) behavior to the contrary). And then there is the external: behavior — that which must interact and adapt, this is what leaders DO. The core is who they are, behavior is what they do….
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. – David Viscott No commentary from me here. Just offering you this thought.
A man who wants to do something will find a way; A man who doesn’t will find an excuse. – Stephen Dolley, Jr. It matters less what the ultimate result is; only that one has started, and worked, and learned, and adapted, and finished “something.” Or we can make up a story about why we can’t…
Besides the ‘fact’ that only 8% of people fulfill their New Year’s Resolutions (NYRs), NYRs are a terrible idea. Why? 1) They are a silly social construct that serves little productive purpose and 2) they take you out of the Present. Let’s focus on #2. If you want to be productive and successful you must…
The most important person you can keep your word to is yourself. I had a thought the other day, and didn’t capture it at the time (bad Matt . . . !), but want to (try to) re-construct it now. The gist was that we have many of the troubles we do in life because we…