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.
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it. – Kurt Vonnegut Whatever you do is your art, if you let it be. Do everything with an artful intention and touch. Take care and act with awareness and love. Let everything you do…
Have blind faith, just don’t have false hope – Tony Brown I was watching HBO’s Sonic Highways and something one of the interviewees said struck me. Tony Brown is a keyboard player and knows a thing or two about long odds and perseverance. Anyone who has “made it” (and that’s a relative term, of course) in…
“The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.” – William James I have long thought that Kant had it wrong when he said “I think, therefore I am.” Sometime not long after my Intro to Philosophy course at Hobart College…
Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end. – Marcelene Cox This quote came across my Facebook page and I had to share. Some people confuse the idea of being aware of one’s mortality with “focusing-on-the-negative” or “worrying about things you can’t control.” It’s neither, if done properly. Life is a…
“Just because you don’t take an interest in politics, doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” – Pericles Ignorance of the law is no defense. A police officer and/or judge doesn’t doesn’t care if you were aware of a law or not if you get caught breaking it. For example, when you get…
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. – William James I had a powerful conversation with my coach recently and one of the things we talked about was “cares.” Another word would be priorities. What I’m talking about is the difference between what we say we want (fantasies, desires,…