Author: Bob Riding

Difficulty isn’t in the way, it is the way. We adapt to challenges.   Otherwise, we don’t adapt, we fail to evolve.  We miss the opportunities hidden within difficulty, and smother under a blanket of safety. Avoiding difficulty is not finding safety, it is nurturing self-limitation.

The moment you were “marked,” what story did you build around it?  Is it still true today? Who were you before the wound(s)?   Who are you now?  What has it taught you? You decide how to proceed.   Will you be forever bound by scars?   Are you breaking free but find you keep getting pulled back…

Why not wait, see how things go, and avoid any possible sting of regret? The challenge is that when we work too hard to avoid regret we often stay stuck.  Our decisions to move forward, to make changes, to attempt something new are never perfect, but can be better than no choice.   Sometimes we have…

There are books I read years ago, but only once.   There are also books I refer to and read again. I consider many of those books classics – the books that stand the test of time because they say something important, beautifully, and still feel alive Mark Twain says, “A classic is something that everybody…

Success and failure follow a similar series of steps.  The path is neutral. What differs is how you take each step. The discipline and persistence that build great achievement can also march you toward ruin when your direction is wrong, your goals are flawed, and you ignore lessons along the way. Your steps reveal character,…

You have enemies and frenemies.  You do.  For whatever reason, they want to see you fail, they want to knock you down a notch or three.  Some are baiters. The baiter throws insults and lies to trigger your emotional reaction, to cause you to make a misstep.  The insult can be blunt street talk, a…