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“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” -Michelangelo Perhaps the reason you’re not going all out, not giving it everything you have, is that you’re worried, “What happens if my best isn’t goodContinue reading “What If My Best Isn’t Good Enough?”

“Compound interest is the eight wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it… he who doesn’t… pays it.” -Albert Einstein “No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time.Continue reading “Gotta Stay In It To Win It”

“Your entire life will change the moment you realize it’s not supposed to be easy. The most valuable things in life are hard to earn. That’s precisely why they’re so valuable.” -Shail Bloom It don’t come easyYou know it don’t come easyIt don’t come easyYou know it don’t come easyGot to pay your dues ifContinue reading “Love The Struggle”

“Everybody wants a transformation. Nobody wants the hundred boring, thankless days it actually takes to get it. Progress feels like nothing’s happening when you’re mid-journey. You only see how far you’ve come once you stop and look back.” -Mark Manson For whatever the project, goal or new initiative, ask yourself if you can commit toContinue reading “100 Boring Days”

“To love is to will the good of the other, as other.” -Saint Thomas Aquinas Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ MatthewContinue reading “Godly Love”

“He has the most who is most content with the least…It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.” -Diogenes Speaking of wisdom and wishes… The Greek and Roman historian Plutarch tells a famous story about Alexander the Great visiting the impoverished Greek philosopher Diogenes of Sinope.Continue reading “Alexander and Diogenes”

There’s an adage in basketball that says the team that usually wins the last two minutes of every quarter or half, wins the game. Apply that to your life. No matter how bad today went–whether in or outside your control–stop whatever negative habit you’re continuing to do. And right now, before you go to sleep,Continue reading “End Right”

The LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream at night.God said, “Ask something of me and I will give it to you.”Solomon answered:“O LORD, my God, you have made me, your servant, kingto succeed my father David;but I am a mere youth, not knowing at all how to act.I serve you in the midst ofContinue reading “One Wish: Wisdom”

“Serve Who Shows Up. No matter the size of a group, I show up and give them my best. I’ll bring the same energy and heart to a room full of five people that I will to a room of 500. And I’d suggest you do the same. Truth be told, you’ll never know howContinue reading “Two People In The Audience”

If a country is governed wisely,its inhabitants will be content.They enjoy the labor of their handsand don’t waste time inventinglabor-saving machines.Since they dearly love their homes,they aren’t interested in travel.There may be a few wagons and boats,but these don’t go anywhere.There may be an arsenal of weapons,but nobody ever uses them.People enjoy their food,take pleasureContinue reading “Vacation”