Suffering Can Wait
“Even bad fortune is fickle. Perhaps it will come, perhaps not; in the meantime it is not.” – Seneca This quote from Mark Twain has always struck a chord with me: “I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.” The vast majority of things we worry about… never come […]
The Failure Lie
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Did you know that it’s illegal to own just one guinea pig in Switzerland? It qualifies as animal abuse because, like us, guinea pigs are social animals that easily get lonely. The Failure Lie […]
10-Day Purpose-Driven Meditations
“Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75.” – Benjamin Franklin Every day you wake up, maybe you go to work, take the kids to school, or exercise. But what is the driving force behind all of that? Just as importantly, are you spending your time doing things that are meaningful to […]
Monopolar
“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” – Sigmund Freud Brandon Sanderson is a writing machine. He wakes up at noon, writes until 5pm, spends time with his family from 5pm to 10pm, and then stays up writing from 10am until around 4am or 5am. He’s become one of the most prolific and beloved […]
Impress Yourself
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” – Mother Teresa David Goggins, the author of Can’t Hurt Me, recently made a Facebook post about how he spent the better part of life caring too much about other […]
Sacred Weekends
“Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.” – Ralph Marston Do you take weekends off? What are your days of REST… and are they sacred? I’m a freelance writer so I don’t really have anyone telling me when or where I have to […]
Unexpected Success
“Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.” – Audrey Hepburn Did you know Australia is wider than the moon? The moon sits at 3,400 kilometers (2,113 miles) in diameter, while Australia’s diameter from east to west is almost 4,000 km (2,485 miles). Unexpected Success Success is sometimes linear. […]
Compounding Optimism
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh “Let me share a little theory I have about optimism, and why progress is so easy to underestimate” is the beginning line of an excellent article by Morgan Housel titled, Compounding Optimism. The 5-minute article […]
Practicing Happiness
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama What more does a person want then to be happier? The good news is that happiness is not just an emotion, but a skill — a skill that, like any other, can be practiced and mastered. You see, happiness isn’t […]
Your 4-Minute Mile
“However ordinary each of us may seem, we are all in some way special, and can do things that are extraordinary, perhaps until then…even thought impossible.” – Roger Bannister Before May 6, 1954, it was universally accepted that the human body simply could not run a mile in less than four minutes. But then Roger […]