Read more books Even if you think you have mastery over your world.  Read. Gather more knowledge.  Gain perspective.   Find out what you’re missing.  Read for the simple pleasure of creating curiosity and challenging your mind.  See your world through different eyes.  Visit a bookstore.  Visit Amazon.  Visit your local library.  Get focused.  Get excited. …

Build.  Don’t maintain. Never be satisfied to just hold on – you’re always advancing.   Status quo is death.  If you’re not moving forward, you’re falling behind. Success has a downside if you’re not careful.  You can get a little fatter and a little happier; a bit bloated and lazier.  You can lose the hunger to…

Don’t believe the lie The big lie we tell ourselves is that our good work will be rewarded.   The big lie we were told growing up is that life is generally fair, that doing good is sooner or later rewarded with good.  The truth:  Maybe, maybe not.  A deeper truth:  Do your good work for…

Screwing up doesn’t define you So much has been written about failing.  Fail early and often, the pundits, the writers of self-help books and chronicles of achievement tell us.   But real failure is painful and expensive – often devastating.   I think what they are talking about are mistakes, and not full-blown, wretched, miserable, humiliating failure. …

It’s found between your ears The good you feel is less about where you are, and who you’re with, and what you’re doing, The good you feel starts inside your head when you get engaged with your world. Get outside yourself.  Become part of something larger than you.  Find your greater energy in the act…

Breakthroughs start as crazy ideas The day before something became a breakthrough, it was considered a crazy idea. Today you may conceive of something that can positively change the whole trajectory of your career and life.  But not if you let the inner censor control your thoughts and actions.  The censor fosters fear.  It works…