Category: self-help

Failure is not just sometimes in the process. It’s always in the process.  Lurking; ready to seize the moment in a split second. When things are going right. When things are going wrong. Whether fully energized, or fully depleted, we need the mental strength to keep stepping up to the challenges life brings us.  We…

Success or significance? When you focus on significance, you’re drawn toward success, and move closer to your dreams.  Get the sequence right. When you make a difference for others, you make a difference for yourself. The fastest way to succeed is to help others succeed.

What’s more important? Being right?  Or finding the truth? Ego sidetracks careers, destroys relationships, and compromises achievement. Think twice the next time you feel the urge to prove you’re right.  Being right is not the same as doing the right thing.

What is your fatal flaw? Aristotle paraphrased:  “A man doesn’t become a hero until he can see the root of his own downfall.” Every hero has a tragic weakness, a fatal flaw.  Too often it’s wrapped in pride – powered by ego. Know the flaw that can bring you down.  Fix it.  Learn from mistakes.   Errors in judgment, repeated day after…

Choose It’s either change, or create a better lie. The problem with lying is that one lie becomes more lies, and truth becomes an illusion.  In the end, the only one who believes the lie is the liar. It’s easier to just change.   

Not dead, can’t quit. – Richard Machowicz, former Navy SEAL Suffering is the best teacher. In good times, we fail to fully register the value of what we go through when we’re in the less than good times. Follow your bliss. Move through the pain. Embrace the suck. What turns you on, what you really…