What’s your mission today? Every morning people need to review their mission. Otherwise, they start to question themselves and start to slow down. (paraphrased from Alexander Gerhan) Why did you awaken so early today?  What’s your priority?  What do you desire to accomplish that moves you one step ahead of where you were yesterday, one…

“Resolve to surpass your yesterday’s self today.” – Miyamoto Musashi Moving to the better today means recognizing who you were yesterday and why you intend for more today.  The difficulty is that there is nothing outside yourself to enable you to get better.  It’s all in you, and all accountability on you.  Today, and every…

Get comfortable too often and you develop a need for it.  It feels like a reward, but it can become a ceiling to possibility.  The creepage of comfort keeps you blissfully stuck. You’re not suffering. Nothing seems wrong. A year passes, maybe three, and the distance between who you are and who you could have…

Get out of the passing lane and move to the side of the road.   See where you are going, check the map.  Sometimes where you think you are going is not where you are headed.  The passing lane feels fast and decisive, but speed in the wrong direction just gets you lost faster. Pulling over…

You work toward a goal, imagining how good it will feel.  You arrive, and it does feel good.  Then the feeling starts to fade, faster than expected.  You are left wondering if there is something wrong; have you somehow failed? There is nothing wrong.  The satisfaction you felt is designed to fade. If it didn’t,…

How many tasks will you manage today?   How many will you complete? Smaller lists get finished. What you get done is what builds momentum.  Getting things done is the goal for most people.   Juggle 7 tasks and finish 3, it can feel like failure. Take on 3 and finish 2, it feels like progress. Everyone…