Category: self-help

Ask the question What’s the one thing you can do – maybe today – that by doing it makes everything else easier?  What’s the one thing that can make some things unnecessary? There is an answer, but you first have to ask the question.   Then seek the answer. Great answers come from great questions.  Great…

Do more If you do only what you can do, you’ll never discover the magic of doing more than you once thought possible.  You’ll never know the magic of moving beyond who you are today. What’s holding you back?  Danger?  Fear?  The desire for comfort that overrides what you know you must do to push…

Balance is bunk The balanced life is an idea, a concept, a myth.  On the surface it sounds like an ideal lifestyle, but if you attend to everything, most things – particularly the important things – get shortchanged. The problem is that most of the magic that shows up in your life happens on the…

Good habits are hard They’re hard to begin.  You’re breaking ground, making changes, swimming upstream against a fast current of all the old behaviors you’ve ingrained into your daily routine. But the old stuff won’t get you where you want to go.  So it’s either break in the new enabling habits, or put up with…

No one knows their ceiling You don’t know your limits.  Possibility stands before you, but you have to recognize and embrace it. Why not accept that you can become as big as you desire?  Why not think big?  Why not see yesterday’s limits as tomorrow’s possibilities?  Why not get better at the art of making…

Do the right thing Too many get this mixed up with doing everything right.  Trying to do everything right is self-defeating. You can’t, and you shouldn’t try. You don’t have to be good at everything, just some things.  Things that synch with your interests, your skills, your capacity to learn and grow.  Things that bring…