“Everything gets harder if you start going on about how hard it is.” Stephen Covey Have you ever noticed that certain people always want to share how much energy they spent on something and how hard they had to work to get that thing done? The amount of time spent…

“The less I needed, the better I felt.” Charles Bukowski Over the past six months, I have chosen to put down my daily blogging habit. It happened because I missed a few days due to work; there was just too much going on at the moment in July when I…

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” Leo Tolstoy The past 48 hours have been some of the longest and most surreal of my life. (*I wrote this on December…

“The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.” Bennett Cerf Think back over your day yesterday. Did you laugh? Do you even remember if there were moments of levity and joy that created an opportunity to laugh out loud? If the answer is…

“Spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself and a little less time trying to impress people.” The Breakfast Club This quote reminds me of the time I heard Jim Collins talk about his work with Peter Drucker. Jim shared that after working together for a few…

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” E. F. Schumacher Today’s quote reminds me of a post from a few weeks ago that you can find here. fThe burden…

“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.” Bertolt Brecht One thing we must all accept in life is that nothing stays the same. Change is both inevitable and constant. Recognizing and accepting this fact is the key to building a life of…

“Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.” Dale Carnegie As a young child, I can vividly remember having my right thumb slammed in a door when I was six or seven years…