Category: self-help

If you loved yourself, would you limit your life? Remain open to the possibility of loving yourself.  Even if you don’t today, you can start finding ways to at least like yourself, and let the progression follow.  You can build up to it. Loving yourself is fundamental to doing what you previously thought impossible. It’s…

Prove that you care It’s up to you to believe that what you’re doing matters.  It’s up to you to give a damn and push yourself. Push yourself to serve.  Push yourself to add value.  Push yourself to prove you care. The time for empty talk is over.

When you don’t know what to do, try doing something (Hamdi Ulukaya) Climb out of the hole. Take a step forward, almost any direction will do.  You can correct your course later, but first take the step. Try doing something, and the energy starts to flow.  Try doing something, and ideas show up, momentum builds. …

Disrupt Actively disrupt.  Because it’s so easy to get sucked into suffocating routine. And while some routine may have positive effects – like getting up early to read, write and start your day – routine not managed, routine left unchecked, can lead you to life on autopilot. Routine kills slowly – so slowly you don’t…

Talent alone won’t get you there Knowledge either.  You can be the smartest person in the room, the hardest worker in the firm.  You can possess superior native skills, and grow a powerful network –  and yet still find yourself stuck. You have to cultivate the inner smarts, the street smarts, the mental muscle and…

Kill the censor Who stopped you today?  Who made you pause, lose track, doubt yourself?  The inner censor is not always this big bully standing in front of you, getting directly in your face.  Too often it’s this little squeaky voice, whose message starts to send a chill running through your soul.     You know the voice. …