To paraphrase Vince Lombardi, it’s hard to be successful when you’re confused.
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Get clear on what you want and pattern of actions required to create what you want.
Act each and every day, always looking for what works and what doesn’t.
Improve your actions until your reach desired state.
Today’s post is simple. It’s a supposition really. Putting aside the fact that mastery is an on-going, never-ending process, a practice (for life), what are the keys that fuel a practice of life mastery? Can we distill such a practice to a few elements? I believe we can. First, there’s the fundamental challenge – and opportunity – of…
I’ve worked within organizations that believed that more resources would solve problems or move important initiatives forward. They were wrong because they igonored the fact that their systems were faulty or incomplete. When the HOW of what people are doing doesn’t work well, or work at all, it doesn’t matter how many people – hard-working, smart…
Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. – Brian Tracy The rudder of a sailboat doesn’t control the sea, but it does make a huge difference in where the boat goes. Goals are much the same. Without goals, one is rudder-less, blown about by the sea. But, with goals, one…
May you live all the days of your life. – Jonathan Swift I sometimes say that the past is good as a textbook, and the future a place to dream into, but the only place anything actually happens is right now. Now is when you live. Imagine the smallest unit of time/experience. That’s “now.” That…
In order for you to profit from your mistakes, you have to get out and make some. – Anonymous The great thing about mistakes is that they often the best source of learning. The funny thing about mistakes is that if they never happen they are never useful. Be a little daring. Do something you’re…
As we learn in the Zen philosophy, when you learn to “let go” of problems instead of resisting with all your might, your life will begin to flow. – Richard Carlson Does a drop of water struggle to get to the ocean, or stay in a particular spot in a stream? Of course not. Water goes…