Category: self-help

Extraordinary results require a great answer What’s the question? Your ability to create great answers is only limited by your capability to ask better questions. Those who live on the outer limits of achievement are there because they took time to think critically, to do the research, to seek possibility. They ask the questions that…

Will it matter? If it won’t matter in five months, is it worth being upset about it for another five minutes? Gain perspective. Look further into the future. Make a judgment call on what matters. We waste too much time, devote too much energy, churn too many cycles, on things of too little importance. We…

Make your bed If you want to change the world, begin by making your bed. Big accomplishments start with small, seemingly insignificant disciplines.  One after another, those mundane habits create a powerful cumulative effect. You’re not ready to face the constant stress, chaos, failure and hardships on the road to excellence until you’re ready to…

Any fool can learn from his mistakes (von Bismarck) Let go of the failure porn.  Take the treatment.  Lose the obsession with failure as the way to get excited and aroused about taking action. Don’t wrap your head too tightly around the idea that “failure is the stepping stone to success.”   Failure happens – many failures…

We have no delete key But we do choose whether we’ll stay stuck in the circumstances of the past, or keep moving ahead into the future. We can’t undo the past, but we can choose whether we’ll live in anger, regret and mourning for what once was.  We can choose whether we’ll change the trajectory…

Be the hero in your own story No matter how difficult, how miserable, how messy your story runs, be in control of how it ends. Some things are in control of others, some not.  It’s not the events of life that disturb and create pain, it’s your judgments concerning them. The one thing you can…