Stuck with your opinion?
Do you want to be stuck with your opinion? You probably formed your opinion based on limited information or isolated experiences. You can have an opinion of course, but hold on loosely to it. Stay open. Keep listening and observing and looking for how your first opinion should be modified.
No one to blame – but yourself
My friend had a sign on the wall that inspired this post. It said "Looking for someone to blame? I suggest you look in the mirror and start there." To accept responsibility is to claim your personal power. Not blaming anyone or anything else for your situation is the first…
Attractive packaging
When you package goods attractively, you get more money for them. You know this is true. Pay attention to your personal packaging because the world accepts you as you present yourself. Nobody argues with who you say that you are.
You're lucky. Pay it forward.
"The secret to life is to be grateful for the many benefits you have received and dissatisfied with how many you've provided. - Dr. Mardy Groethe I understand that my life is as good as it is because of the benefits I have received from countless others- made possible by…
Boys need fathers
"Young men need fathers. Without fathers they flounder." -Matt Rosenberg In 2021 in Chicago there were 3561 shootings and 800 murders. The neighborhoods with the highest rate of births to unwed mothers were the same neighborhoods with the highest murder rates. Studies show that two biological parent households, regardless of…
Persistence
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." By definition, great achievement is not easy. If everyone was doing it, it would not be noteworthy and admirable. Things that are not easy take time to learn and master. You will try and fail. Try and it…
Not happy with something? Good!
"And from the discontent of man, the world's progress springs." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox When we aren't happy (frustrated, upset, angry) that's when we will do something to change it. If we were comfortable with everything, then we wouldn't be motivated to change anything. It is from this mental adversity…
Do you do difficult things?
"Difficulty is the high fence that keeps out the weak, wannabees, and pretenders. Most people won;t do it if it's hard." - Dr. Mardy Groethe Not doing anything difficult is how to take the easy path and be comfortable - and to live an ordinary unremarkable life and die without…
The best year of your life – starting now
Make a decision that the next twelve months will be the best year of your life. Making that firm decision and making plans gives you optimism. What would have to happen? What would it look like? What do you have to do? List your reasons - your motivations; the more…
Everyone's a fraud – until they aren't
Fake it until you make it. Act the part, until you become the part. Learn, act and talk like the person you want to be, and soon enough, you are that person.
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