Two months into the year - is progress towards your goals fitful, a cycle of starting, stopping, and restarting?  Do you have good intentions but lack the consistency needed for accomplishment?  Discipline is more than girding your lions and powering through; promise and patience are essential.     Promise Ironically, we are far more diligent about meeting commitments to others than ourselves. ...

How did we get here? In an information age that has (i) morphed from two cans connected by a string to wireless networks connecting every corner of the globe, (ii) expanded from three TV channels to hundreds of cable channels/streaming services, and (iii) social media networks ruled by provocative influencers and enticing algorithms, our minds are unavoidably lured by and consumed with the...

His Story A crestfallen friend bared his soul and shared his tale of woe with the expectation of a sympathetic response.  What I heard was a tale of triumph, and I offered my congratulations.  How?  An alternative perspective created this unanticipated, contrarian response.      “Bob” told me the failure of his business cost him his life’s savings and provoked feelings of shame.  Financial...

Each of us can point to circumstances not of our own doing to justify our current state (poor family, “bad” parents, surname ends in a vowel, went to Podunk school, etc.).  All of them may be true, and it is equally true that by taking responsibility for our response, we may prevail against them all.  They Did It Mark Cuban sold plastic garbage bags and ate mayonnaise sandwiches before starting...

And sometimes it rings when we are unprepared or wish someone else was called.  We need to respond affirmatively to the opportunity even when the timing is wrong, we do not want to, or we do not feel suited for the task. It Rings We would immediately jump to the aid of a heart attack victim and perform CPR, armed only with the knowledge acquired from life-saving reality TV.  Without a moment’s...