One of the most immediate things you can do when you aren’t feeling particularly awesome is to acknowledge it. There is something powerful about acknowledging that there is something bothering you. Acknowledging that you have a gambling problem, or maybe a drug or alcohol problem, or an eating problem is usually the first step to…
Category Archives: Life
we are all cut from the same cloth
One thing that has stuck with me is that we are all cut from the same cloth. What this means is that anything anybody else can do, you can do as well. That’s really important. Far too many times people will idolize their heroes and that actually does more harm then good. A perfect example…
Patience is a virtue, indeed.
“He that can have Patience, can have what he will.” – Benjamin Franklin I read somewhere that Ben Franklin invented bifocal glasses when he was 78 years old. That was a patient man right there. Patience is a lost virtue. The obsession with getting things easily and conveniently have taken precedence. Because of this, people…
What motivates you? Finding leverage.
“Motivation alone is not enough.If you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot.” – Jim Rohn I haven’t been doing as well as I had hoped I would studying for the GMAT. I find myself extremely rusty at math and english and it is definitely showing. I realize it just…
Man on Wire… lessons on balance
Happy Chinese New Year. They did a short interview with me today at The City Bee about the Chinese New Years and some of the customs involved. They changed the interview quite a bit, and took out a lot more which is really unfortunate. It almost feels like half of that interview wasn’t me, and…
Courage under fire
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs…
focus your energy
”If I want to be as successful as I want to be, I have to be thinking about it all the time.” – Michael Phelps I used to believe that multitasking was the way to go. I could juggle 7 or 8 things at a time and felt I was being rather productive. I still…
