Start your day with a smile. This is one more opportunity to work toward your dreams. Today you get to take another step forward in the slow, steady march of growth and progress. It will not be easy. Things will not always go as planned. The path will not be straight or smooth. The challenges … Continue reading Smile At The Day
To make the greatest change, you must seek out the longest lever. There are certain decisions you can make in your life that will have the greatest overall impact. What is one facet of your life that is disproportionately causing you the most unhappiness? What is the one project, relationship, attitude, or behavior that, if … Continue reading Leveraging Change
Improvement itself is often the only reward you get for all of your effort. Even if you give your all, success is never guaranteed. Too many variables are beyond your control. You can always control your effort, however. Win or lose, succeed or fail, not a single drop of your blood, sweat, or tears is … Continue reading Improvement Itself
We may never be the best at what we do. There will likely always be others who do it better. There are a lot of people in this world and many are born more gifted, more privileged, or simply more driven than ourselves. This is a fact of life. Ignoring it, denying it, or pushing … Continue reading With What We Have
When we first start practicing our art, it will be ugly. It will be messy. Things will not work the way we want them to. What we imagine will not be what happens. Our desires and our intentions will not clearly manifest through our efforts. We will fumble and get frustrated. We will get discouraged. … Continue reading Celebrating Art
