Category: self-help

Do your work There’s power in it.  Work that may, or may not, be not found within your 9 to 5.  Maybe it’s the things done purely from passion.  Maybe it’s the extra effort you take within that extra window of time you make within your busy day.  It’s what gives deeper meaning and larger…

How can I know what I think until I see what I say? (attributed to E.M. Forster) Sometimes you have to figure things out as you go.  Sometimes no amount of advance thinking and brainstorming can pull things together.  Sometimes you have to experiment, just try something,  and then choose your next step. Life is sometimes…

How’s your timing? Timing makes the difference between success and failure.   Show up at 8:05 for an 8:00 flight and you’re going nowhere. Every day, opportunities are lost because of a mistake in timing, a miscalculated priority, a lack of urgency. When it’s important, let go of the excuse that you don’t have time.   Let…

Think above the trivial You grow big by thinking big.   Getting stuck on the trivial is the path to becoming small. Why be small?  Why fall into the trap of lowering your sights?  Why settle for lots of less? Stretch your vision.  See what can be, rather than just what is.  Focus your attention on…

This is the year of you Has your year started?  Some got off to a false start.  Some are repeating 2016.  Worse, some are still stuck in 2010.   Where are you? It’s the year when your effort isn’t negotiable, your intentions uncompromising, your progress consistent.   It’s the year of no excuses. The year is still…

Quit wishing  Start doing.  There’s no greater waste of mental muscle than the endless dreaming of success.  Take action.  Acquire knowledge.  Gain mastery, and refine skills.  Develop the time-tested principles of winners –  like focus, preparation and persistence.   Accept the law of cause and effect, and quit blaming luck for what does or doesn’t show…