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Inner Scorecard or Outer Scorecard?
Inner success or outer success? Which matters most to you? Where did your values and beliefs come from? Truly yours, the result of deep self-awareness,…
July 23, 2024
What is your Ikigai?
Ikigai (ee-kee-guy) is a combination of the Japanese words ‘iki’ (to live) and ‘gai’ (reason) literally meaning ‘reason to live’. What constitutes a fulfilling life…
July 18, 2024
To Live Above the Common Level of Life
‘To live above the common level of life’ means to strive for a life that transcends the ordinary or average, making conscious choices to elevate…
June 4, 2024
Sua Sponte
Sua sponte is Latin for ‘of their own accord’ and refers to action taken without formal prompting. While the phrase is a term of art…
May 30, 2024
Per Aspera Ad Astra
“Per Aspera Ad Astra” is Latin for ‘through hardship to the stars’ and can be taken several related ways including it is through adversity we…
May 28, 2024
Extraordinary Comes From How You Do the Day-to-Day Ordinary
Most of us have heard the quote attributed to Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”…
May 21, 2024
What ill Discipline Adds to Our Plate
Folks, life is challenging enough without you defecting to the opposition. Yet all too many of us decline to follow the 3 Simplest Rules of…
May 14, 2024
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
The quote is by the poet Mary Oliver (1935-2019, Pulitzer Prize winner) and the elegant beauty of it always spoke volumes to me. I live…
April 23, 2024
Who Told You it Would Be Easy?
And if someone ever did, why would you believe them? If it were easy, everyone would do it, so what’s the point? Where is the…
April 16, 2024
Practice is a Skill
Or more fully stated: ‘effective practice is a learnable skillset’. It may sound like heresy, but not all practice is good practice or at least…
April 9, 2024
Will is a Skill
For many of us and for much of our lives we have absorbed the concept that willpower, along with its close cousin, self-discipline, is an…
April 4, 2024