Category: self-help

How to avoid criticism ·    Deny ·    Over-react ·    Suppress When you choose to avoid criticism, you become small, inauthentic and distant.   You fail to grow.  Engage your world with truth and honesty – even when it’s not so easy, not so comfortable.

Ask When you don’t ask, the answer is always no. Entitlement won’t get you there.  Wishful thinking won’t get you there. Want yes?  Then step up and ask.

Remind yourself The sun will rise tomorrow.  Another day to engage in the arena.  Another day to feel and express gratitude. When the world seems like it’s crashing in, when you feel overwhelmed and unfocused – remind yourself.

Quit comparing Your competition is you.  Quit judging, quit comparing yourself to others. Their journey is not your journey.  Pay attention to yours.

Tactics vs. principles Don’t let a great tactic override a principle. In the race to excel, to reach goals, we must stay mindful of enduring principles.   Things like honesty, truth, respect, spiritual beliefs. It’s easy to lose sight of these when engaged in the arena.   It’s convenient to justify the wrong actions in the quest…

The courage to live in the gray It takes moral courage to live within the gray.  Few circumstances are black and white.  Few choices are supported by evidence of good and bad, yes and no. It’s up to us to sit in uncertainty, ask the questions, and live the answers