No one ‘makes us angry.’ We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. – Jim Rohn I have little to add here. Only to ask, perhaps challenge, you to consider this and agree with it (which has tremendous implications for how you live) or to disagree (which too has tremendous implications for…
“I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.” – Martha Beck A crisis is an opportunity. It is a wake-up call. It is a clear signal that what one has been doing will no longer work. It is a chance to begin anew, with…
If one or two people tell you you’re an ass, you can ignore them. But if three or four people tell you you’re an ass, you might think about putting on a saddle. – Yiddish saying The inverse is true as well. If people keep telling you that you have gifts or talents, you must…
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. – Abraham Maslow I would edit Maslow’s suggestion a bit and suggest that rather than (concerning ourselves with) “overcoming fear,” that we focus on its opposite: love. Choose growth…
I subscribe to one of Brian Tracy’s newsletters and in just the first paragraph of his latest missive I was inspired to write a blog post. The line that got me thinking was: “When Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” he was saying that the emotion of…
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. – Rene Descartes Anthony Robbins would call the above “chunking.” He would say we should chunk everything down to whatever size necessary to take action on something and complete it. There’s a lot to what he, and Descartes, say. *…