What Lies Within…

 
Ralph Waldo Emerson is credited as saying , "The Great majority of men are bundles of beginnings."
 
Quitting is more about who you are, I read somewhere recently, and less about…

"A Business Without Marketing Is Like A Boy Winking At A Girl In The Dark....
He Knows He's Doing It But No One Else Does!"
 
- common sense gleaned from promotional mail…

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

    - Ambrose Redmoon 

 
This tip is a classic but heard it again recently courtesy of the venerable Keith Cunningham.
 
Like I said, this isn't all that new; y'all remember my little rant against the not-so-humble TV ages ago.
 
 
Have a great day.
 
 
 
 

 
A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
- Rita Mae Brown

Stop, for the love of all that's holy under the heavens, cleaning up! I suffered from this 'ailment' for a long time. I'd arrange my boxes. Then the pencils, then notice the grease tacked onto the window seal. Then I would exercise and make a few 'important' phone calls. I'd do everything but sit at my desk and write.
Leave the house chores alone. Schedule a time to do them and clear up then. In a nutshell:
 
LEAVE THE UNIMPORTANT STUFF TILL LAST, STOP PROCASTINATING
 
 
 

As the late great Jim Rohn once said, "Motivation isn't all that it's cracked up to be; if you keep motivating an idiot then you get a motivated idiot!" 
My girl couldn't make the seminar which was tastily - and somewhat dubiously - titled "Never Work Again!" I'm not against Self Help/Motivational seminars at all. However, I do believe that you have to decide what is most important to you, ensure (as much as possible) that you're gonna get it, before parting with your money. Otherwise, you may just leave feeling shortchanged - or you leave feeling great, only to find that not much has changed…

Woke up at 5.30am - and stayed up. Something I haven't done so far this year. It scares me how so easily one can throw away a good habit. You spend months doing something that's good for you in a certain way - but this requires consistency - only to throw it away with the slightest disruption to your routine. Then the bad habits set in. And if there's one thing I've learnt; it's that your victory will most likely come from somewhere within your habits; within what you do on a consistent basis.  That's why in recent months I keep asking…

 
What's a Slasher?
It's not a bad 80's cringe-inducing, jugular-raping flick, more to do with the careerS you've chosen. And it's not the type of careers in themselves, just the fact that…

"I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't."
- Lucille Ball