Large, Nutty, Impossible Goals
“I want to make an extra $100,000 this year.” “I am going to run an ultra marathon.” “I am going to lose 50 pounds and …
Mindset
An open, calm, confident mindset. Plugged in, mostly. Opting for feel good, then act instead of get into action to shut down bad feelings.
Choose to Dwell
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” – Shakespeare What Will means is that we can choose to dwell on …
Nobody says “Do successful”
“The trick to being successful is to be successful.” Nobody ever says, “Do successful.” Yet most of the time we think, “If I do this, …
Fail So You Can Win
Despite admonishments to “fail early, often, and well,” we would much rather avoid failure altogether. We fear failure. Practical philosopher Peter Koestenbaum says that we …
Have and Eat Your Cake
We are so accustomed to constraints that we often accept them without question. Statements containing the conjunctions but or or slip by us easily and …
No Shoulds
Catch yourself when, in making a decision, you say, “I should,” “I ought to,” or “I have to.” Even if we seem to be the …
Under Stress, We Do Exactly the Wrong Things
Under stress, we act in ways that directly counter our values/motivators/drivers.. If, for example, we value practicality, under stress we will do very impractical things. …
What Buddha Said
Here’s an interesting quotation: “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.” …
Our Illusions of Failure
We thrive when we go within ourselves for direction, validation, insight, and answers. We fail–or at least get stuck on “meh”–when we reach outside ourselves …
It is Not What We Do
Greet the client using the phrase the other retail automatons use or be genuinely glad they arrived? Profit as the driver or the happy byproduct? …