There is no perfect moment   Whenever you begin is the right time.  Waiting for ideal conditions is often fear-based postponement in disguise. What you’re waiting for is only unlocked by what you’re avoiding.  Waiting until you are ready is just a well-worn excuse.    Is it time to start, however imperfectly?

Correction is growth.    Mistakes happen, errors show up.   What’s next? I can do the blame game, or I can become accountable and recover. I’m not waiting for circumstances, other people, or luck to change.  I make the shift and turn a mistake into something I can actually work with.

Every path taken comes with its own built-in friction, its own weight, its own quiet cost. The path for growth means accepting discomfort.  One for success demands sacrifice.  Achieving stability requires relentless maintenance. Life is not about choosing easy versus hard.  It’s the choice of which hard path, and the wisdom to pick the one…

Fact, or opinion? Don’t confuse facts with opinions.  Online media and postings make the job difficult, with their constant attempts to persuade and shape reality. In a perfect world, facts are verifiable, and reasoned opinions are based on facts that have undergone critical thinking.  Today you also face the dumpster dive into rage bait, pseudo-opinion,…

Why is my vision so hard when I contemplate it in advance, and so easy when I do it? When I think too hard my imagination loads the process with every possible complication and decision point; every way things could go wrong.  I start to intellectualize the vision rather than just start the work. I…

A lot of what we think about and do is flawed.  We are wrong more than we are right.   We spend too much time seeking validation, and not enough time examining the assumptions, biases and actions that led to our errors.  We take our mistakes personally and make excuses rather than look to them for…