Hard times are an opportunity to exercise your greatest strengths, and to foster your highest self. “Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger.” Dalai Lama Life, and all the hardships therein, are only what we make of them. Hard times are part of the seasons […]
Tag: Personal Development
Nothing Will Change Until You Deliberately Change
Conscious change is the only sure way to bring more good things into your life. “Nothing will change until we change — until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves.” Myles Horton Change is the only constant in this world — but conscious positive change is not. Most people let change sweep them […]
Your Focus Is Only As Valuable As What You Spend It On
Today Not everything deserves your focus today, but everything will demand it anyway. Protect it. “The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.” Marcus Aurelius We live in an age of distraction. We also live in an age that reputes focus as the new […]
Life Throws These Two Things At You Every Single Day — Your Success Depends On How You Use Them
The two eternal sides of life’s daily allotment . . . “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” Napoleon Hill Success has never been an easy thing. But neither has it ever been so complicated that it cannot be grasped. The formula for success is simple, but its accomplishment is hard, very hard, and is never […]
Hope In The Holocaust: Why You’re So Much Stronger Than You Think, Even When It Hurts To Live
When all is dark, when times are trying, and when part of you just wants to give in, what’s the reaction? What’s your response? Most people become smaller, they become less, they break, not by some outward will imposed on them, but by choice.
Here’s the Formula for Success
Success is simple — it’s just not easy. Success is not an accident. It happens for a reason, because of the things put into it. It is the result of a consistent, deliberate process. And it’s nothing new. I find that literature exemplifies this perfectly. Whether one reads the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, or a fresh copy […]