“The biggest differences emerge from making lots of little differences.” ~ Thomas J. Leonard Discard the idea that you can move forward in life without making changes. Moving forward requires you to grow and evolve, both are fueled by change. Your attitude towards it conditions the results you will experience from it. Regardless, you direct…
To experience moving forward, takes work. Like diet and exercising, what you put in will determine what you get out. Today, focus on your perspective patterns blocking you. Start with these: Okay, now that you have the time and the inclination, what are the perspective patterns in your life that need a hard review. Don’t…
Belief is a powerful thing. It can propel you forward (empowering). It can hold you back (limiting). It can prop you up (encouraging). It can hold you down (belittling). Today’s encouragement: Start identifying and rooting out beliefs you hold that are limiting or belittling. A simple way to approach this: Nothing is too small or insignificant,…
We are never guaranteed tomorrow. So why spend so much time thinking about it? By definition a goal is “an aim or desired result” for a future outcome. New Year’s resolutions are goals. What’s your success rate with them? You set a goal for six months only to get there, and rationalize your performance toward…
You know the importance of the order of operations are to correctly solving an equation. You get one step wrong, and no matter how accurately you solve each step after it, you still arrive at a wrong answer. When navigating a plane or a ship, being wrong by a single degree can put you miles…
The power of a word. How many times a day do you use the word “should”? Consider the impact using “should” has on your perception. Google “define: should” and you’ll get the following result: What if instead of using the word “should” as a form of self-reprimand or -exasperation, you start doing whatever it is…
Today is Friday the 13th. A day synonymous with horror movies. A day associated with unlucky misfortunes and superstitions. And of course, Jason. Confession, I have never watched any of the Friday the 13th movies. In fact, I generally stay away from anything that scares me. Feeling scared is not comfortable, and so, even though…
When you hear the phrase ‘pursuit of happiness’, what images does it invoke? The framers of the constitution modeled this phrase after the Greek word eudaimonia literally translated as the state of a ‘good spirit’. A more Platonian description of the word can be summarized as ‘a state of well-being and flourishing that results from…