Why Not Just Be Good?

Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. – Denis Waitley Without belief nothing happens. If you don’t believe, you won’t start. And if you don’t start, well . . . .

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” – Peter Drucker I (might) take this idea too far sometimes. I take pride in the idea: “I don’t always do everything I could, or ‘should,’ but whatever I do, I do well.” I know that, deep-down, more-often-than-not, it’s…

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are to some extent a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece by thought, choice, courage and determination. – John Luther The (great) thing about (good) character is how it makes you…

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. – Plato Another version of this is: only talk when doing so will improve upon the silence (paraphrased, from who I don’t know). Talking just because you want to talk is needy, or narcissistic or disrespectful – or all three….

86,400 seconds in a day. 10, 080 minutes in a week. ~730 hours in an average month. We all have same amount of time. Time, while relative in its experience, is constant in its duration. There is no adding time. Or slowing it down when we need more. Time is a constant. It is unmanageable…

Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable. – Zig Ziglar It can be hard to remember this at times. We can caught up in overwhelm and frustration and lose sight of our abilities. It is in these times that we must remind ourselves of how much we have already done. Of all…