By Chris Widener Have you ever noticed that when you have the time and you sit down to write out your life and work priorities they are relatively simple to come up with? You know, you take an hour or so, go down to the coffee shop to sit and really think about your life and career and to lay out what is really important to you? Maybe when you are done, your list for life looks like this: 1. Family 2. Health 3. Hobbies 4. Work Or maybe for work it looks like this: 1. Set … [Read more...]
Action vs. Self-Delusion
By Jim Rohn Knowledge fueled by emotion equals action. Action is the ingredient that ensures results. Only action can cause reaction. Further, only positive action can cause positive reaction.Action. The whole world loves to watch those who make things happen, and it rewards them for causing waves of productive enterprise. I stress this because today I see many people who are really sold on affirmations. And yet there is a famous saying that "Faith without action serves no useful purpose." … [Read more...]
Leave the World A Bit Better
Ron White Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a poem on success. One of his measures of success in that poem was to, 'Leave the world a bit better.' That line has always stuck in my head. Emerson said you have succeeded if you leave the world a bit better. I have made that line part of my life philosophy. When the tide goes out there is a watermark where the water was. When the waters of life recede from the shore of my being and my heart pumps for the last time, my desire is that there will be a mark … [Read more...]
Leading Change
Dr. John C. Maxwell Leadership is about change. If you need no change, you need no leader. In times of change, people seek out more and better leaders. Those successful sought-out leaders embrace the following thought: "The best reformers the world has ever known are those who began with themselves." Mahatma Gandhi said, "We must be the change that we envision." Tolstoy said, "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." The following comments are about … [Read more...]
