What is the reputation you have with yourself? You’re not an insignificant face in the crowd.  How do you see yourself?  What do you want to be known for? You can cultivate and manage your self-esteem.  You can improve the reputation you acquire with yourself.    

Work is an inspired person’s game Effort without inspiration is churn – just running the cycles. The creative and inspired never stop. They’re ready to engage each new day. Work can be fun when you get creative and stay inspired.

Make progress If you’re still thinking, researching and strategizing; if you’re still pondering and debating; you haven’t started. So start.  Start in some way, the best way you can.  Stop scrolling, close the books, and reschedule the meetings. Begin to make progress. Start.

Failure is not just sometimes in the process. It’s always in the process.  Lurking; ready to seize the moment in a split second. When things are going right. When things are going wrong. Whether fully energized, or fully depleted, we need the mental strength to keep stepping up to the challenges life brings us.  We…

Success or significance? When you focus on significance, you’re drawn toward success, and move closer to your dreams.  Get the sequence right. When you make a difference for others, you make a difference for yourself. The fastest way to succeed is to help others succeed.

What’s more important? Being right?  Or finding the truth? Ego sidetracks careers, destroys relationships, and compromises achievement. Think twice the next time you feel the urge to prove you’re right.  Being right is not the same as doing the right thing.