You know you have a lot of potential and creativity. You know you want to be more successful. You know you don’t want to keep feeling stuck and overwhelmed. But you are not sure how to start moving forward again.
I have news for you. You can either bemoan how your are getting older and can’t change things around, or you can decide to take control of your life and do whatever it takes to get to the next level of success. Continue reading »
Practicing any skill, like golf, or horseback riding, should improve it. When you practice on your own, without deep understanding of what you are doing, you may end up repeating the same mistakes over and over again. Thus, you develop bad habits which are hard to break.
Tragedies make us feel vulnerable and fearful, straining our ability to cope. Once again, in a flash, sick hate, a horrible cowardly act makes everything change.
But our vulnerability can teach us to stand together with courage. Sharing compassion and love in times of tragedy can unite us as one.
It depends on how you define success. . .
Maria Popva recent posting on Brain Pickings about Success got me thinking about the whole quest for success. She is right on when she hints there are as many definitions of success as people that talk about it. Maria reports that:
“Thoreau saw it [success] as a matter of greeting each day with gratitude and for designer Paula Scher, it’s about the capacity for growth; for Jad Abumrad, it comes after some necessary “gut churn”; for Jackson Pollock’s dad, it was about being fully awake to the world.”
Most leaders like to think of growth and success as a straight line that keeps going up and up, taking them farther and higher all the time. Yet, reality is different. Growth is more like a series of loops that include moving forward, course turning, and changing course, while continuing to advance.
Of course, you can't be constantly turning around or you will only go in circles and never advance. But there are situations when turning around IS the smart thing to do. Continue reading »
The New Year is almost here. You can almost touch it! This gives you an amazing opportunity. You can either bemoan all the things that have gone wrong in the past year, or you can decide to keep your focus on the positive for the new year. Continue reading »
The New Year is almost here. You can almost touch it! This gives you an amazing opportunity. You can either bemoan all the things that have gone wrong in the past year, or you can decide to keep your focus on the positive for the new year. Continue reading »
