“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” Madeleine L’Engle, an American writer who wrote young adult fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels, put forth a wonderful reflection on self and being in her book, Glimpses of Grace. Below is an abbreviated portion […]
Learn from Everyone
The formal education is something that has been given a lot more credence than other ways of acquiring knowledge, the focus on curriculum and standardized methods of learning overshadowing all else. This does not detract from the importance of these methods. Schooling is not a bad thing, and one can learn plenty in a formal […]
Fear
Fear is pervasive, and it is the major paradigm that holds most back in life: fear of failure, fear of criticism, fear of rejection, and so on. Fear cannot be escaped. It is human. But what every person has the power to do, whether they believe it or not, is to evaluate their fear and […]
Keep Going
Persistent people recognize and sweep aside the weaknesses which stand between them and their goals. Their persistence develops into a respected, progressive power. Without persistence, we are defeated even before we start. With persistence and strong desire and consistent action we will win. Be the one who takes the pain of defeat and uses it […]
Letting Go, and Becoming
It takes guts to form the right habits, to stay true to them despite all the things that life does to try and pull us away. Here is one way to look at success habits: Devise – consciously decide what you yearn to become more of. Expectation – seeing yourself in the possession of or […]
Your Opponent is Time
We face many challenges in life, the foes of our success numerous and varied, but far greater than all of them is time–for time is the one obstacle we can never hope to defeat. Each of us only have so many mornings to rise to, so many days to live out, and so many nights […]
Anew
On the eve of this new year, let us remember that there is nothing more valuable or filled with potential than this very moment. We make resolutions on this eve, lofty promises and goals, and yet more often than not they fall along the wayside soon thereafter. And it is because we have let the […]
For Every Choice You Make, Ask This Simple Question . . .
Our motivations drive our actions, yet so often we are blind to what are motivations really are–and whether they are truly good for us. Get in the habit of asking yourself for every dilemma, every relationship, every commitment, or every failure to commit: Does this choice diminish me or enlarge me? Every choice we make, […]
True Silence
We all know what it’s like to sit in a library or classroom or some other public space and try to concentrate there. We all know the people who turn their heads at every noise, who lift their eyes from their books whenever someone talks, whenever a mere pin drops. Maybe that is ourselves. And […]
Be Good To Yourself
It is not easy, the path we tread. The road is long and winding, treacherous indeed, and sometimes we tire so much that we cannot think of moving on. Do not reject such difficulty, but do not chide yourself for feeling this weariness either. We are all finite beings, although infinite in potential. All people, […]