The cumulative effect The secret to a great life is simply experiencing a bunch of great days, one day at a time. The secret to disaster is errors in judgement, repeated day after day after day. Life is a balance sheet of days.  Keep accumulating the great ones.  Maximize the uptime. Stop with the repeated errors in…

It’s the dead fish that go with the flow.  Time to to get out of the comfort zone, find a better channel, and start swimming against the current. The counter to progress is not regress, it’s death.

The main thing The main thing is to keep your main thing the main thing.  No slippage.  No distraction.  No dabbling with other things. If you believe in your main thing, you must focus on it.  You must make it the main thing.

The one thing.  What’s the one thing I can do today that will make a difference for a thousand tomorrows? What single step can I take today to grow, to become more valuable, to chip away at some obstacle in the way of what I want? Tomorrow will be easier when I do that one…

Do you want to be safe or strong? There is no way to wall off some portion of reality and create a fully predictable and safe space.  No way to banish everything threatening and dangerous. To stay too safe is to design a life filled with caution, life surrendered to a more infantile state, life…

Master of chaos You’re doing just fine, living in certainty and order.   Then the bottom drops out, things start to fall apart. The thick ice you thought you were skating on turns out to be thin –  cracking and crumbling at your feet.  Now you’re plunging into the cold, dark abyss of chaos.  Your brain…