Tag: passion

  • The tragedy of modern life

    “… a tragedy of our modern life is that everything is interesting but nothing becomes deeply important.” – Walker Percy We like to dabble, to check things out, to explore what’s new and novel.  But when we get distracted by the merely interesting – and there is plenty of it – we lose focus on…

  • Efficiency and Love

    Deeply rooted in the core of each of us, is the desire for love. In this desire we find our true identity, our reason for being, our heart, our soul, our essence. In most of us, our desire for love has been distorted, buried or even purposely brushed under the rug. Pressures of life, careers,…

  • Favorable Conditions Never Come

    “If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.” -C.S. Lewis

  • The Success Principles by Jack Canfield

    Jack Canfield, best-selling author, co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul Series, wrote The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be with Janet Switzer in 2005. In it, Canfield reveals 64 principles to achieve great levels of success.

  • 8 Secrets of Success with Richard St. John

    In order to succeed you must focus and have a passion for an idea to serve something of value, and you must push yourself to work hard, become good at it, and persist in your efforts. In the video below, Richard St. John presents 8 Secrets to Success. These 8 secrets can be remembered by…