52 STEPS FORWARD

Stating the Case At some point, you have undoubtedly benefitted from a frank conversation with a trusted confidant, which leads to breakthrough growth.   While you may have incredible affection for that person and share incredibly intimate details of your life, that...

We are halfway through the year, and too many of us have made inadequate progress toward our goals. Previously, we have examined enemies of accomplishment, such as fear, discipline, and competing priorities. Today, we address overcoming other impediments. Failure to...

Who Is the Fairest One of All? The issue is not possessing the Evil Queen’s vanity but our negative internal voice.  Too often, we talk to ourselves more critically than we would ever speak to someone else.     Of course, the parents who said, “You will never amount...

Cause Rather than proudly don a (non-Hawthorne) Scarlet A, I shamefully cloaked myself with the lamentable Crimson S.  Admittedly, today's message is a little more "Why and How-To" than my usual messages due to my prior unhealthy relationship with the issue.  ...

Many start the day leaping out of bed as if shot out of a cannon.  Running through our minds is a myriad of urgent obligations, and we send our brains into overdrive by first checking our phones for “vital” messages and “consulting” social media.   We want to start...