Category: self-help

Prepare For the times you’ll be tempted and tested.  For the times situations and forces try to draw you in a direction you know is not in your best interest. It’s too late to wait until the situation shows up.  Be situationally saavy. Be ready with choices outlined in your mind.  Have the script prepared.…

An instant away A bad choice or wrong action can mess up your life in an instant.   Errors in judgment, repeated day after day, can lead to disaster. Read the news.  Every day some poor soul has learned the hard way that the downhill slide happens fast.  That hard won reputation, the trust, the prized…

Make progress, not perfection You’re not as good as you think.  You don’t have it all figured out.  There’s plenty of work ahead for you to get better. Our mind can be a very convincing liar.  We all have blind spots.  It takes higher self-awareness to see ourselves as we really are.  It takes courage…

Expect poor treatment When you are moving fast, when you are breaking barriers and gaining ground, expect poor treatment and abuse from the entrenched.  Expect everything from indifference to outright sabotage. When you move up, you become a threat to those already there.  You threaten the fragile psyche of those desperately clinging to the ground…

Inspiration is for amateurs The pros show up and get to work. Possibilities show up when you start. Do your work. Do it well. Then let go.  Avoid so tightly clinging to what you’re doing that you miss bumping into new possibilities and fail to ride the momentum you’re gaining. Don’t wait for inspiration.  Get to…

It’s about time What does your ideal day look like?  How’s it shaping up today? Is clutter in the way?  Are priorities misaligned with where you want the day to go?  What time wasters are you feeding?  What needs to be jettisoned? Are you working your day?  Making progress? You drive time, or time drives…