Category: self-help

Be accountable Don’t take the “it wasn’t my fault” road tour.   You know the familiar mantra: It wasn’t me, it was really you (or someone else). Blame and excuses never solve a problem.  They are never the path forward.  Blame and excuses never reveal or cultivate the greater person you are inside, or can become.…

Get out of your own head Quit feasting on you own thoughts.   Quit replaying the past and the future. When you’re stuck in your own head, you’re not present in the moment; you’re not listening, or paying attention to what’s going on around you.  You’re not creating deeper connections. You’re focused on your inner game…

Put in the time If you’re not putting in the time to get what you want, know that someone, somewhere is.  And when you meet, they will win. Putting in the time defines the difference between the professional and the dilettante.   Professionals stay focused on what they want.  Professionals practice and prepare to get it. …

Always be learning It’s not how much you know, it’s how little.  How much open space to fill in order to become more, to do more, to create greater value. Maintain the student mindset.  Be a lifelong learner.  Read books.  Have mentors.  Embrace advisers and teachers. The mind, left to its own devices, can turn…

Embrace your funk What makes you different? Discover it.  Work on it.  Perfect it.  Approach your world as only you can uniquely do. Most people are obsessed with fitting in.  Most want to do what everyone else is doing, becoming what everyone else wants to become.  Most will never dare to stand out in the…

Why aren’t you? If the best in the world are working their butts off to succeed, why aren’t you? Then again, maybe you are.  Maybe you start earlier, and stay later.  Maybe you prioritize what you want to do, and then find a way to get it done.  Maybe you surmount levels of high difficulty…