Mattering is a choice. The choice to be consequential. The choice to fulfill your whole capacity for living. The choice to take responsibility for feeling insignificant. At work, in life and in love. -Scott Ginsberg Mattering matters. [...]
Archive > July 2011
Trust is Speed
I never thought of trust as speed until I listened recently to a One Minute video by John Maxwell where he discuses the word Trust. If you trust someone you get more accomplished. If you trust someone you cover more ground.
Spending Time
Time is one of those commodities that’s here now, then gone forever. You can’t take back a moment in time. We can however, determine how we are going to spend the next moment. Outside forces often affect our time. But, even in the midst of that, we can determine how we will spend our time. [...]
Simplicity to get to Creative
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” -Leonardo da Vinci It’s in the simplicity of life that we are renewed. A walk. Coffee with a friend. A bike ride. Prayer. Working in the garden. A nap. It’s in the simplicity of life that we are awakened. A sunset. The sound of the rushing stream. A flower in [...]
Follow Through
Follow through. Completing the task. Doing what you said you were going to do. Finishing the project. If you don’t start, you will never complete the task, or the project, or the dream. But, if you start and don’t follow through – it’s the same result. It doesn’t get done. An unfinished result has negative [...]
Loss
I’ve experienced a number of losses over the past several years. We often think of losing a loved one when we think of a loss. It includes that. But a loss can range from giving up on a dream to changes in a friendship to disappointments to betrayal. It can be a physical loss – [...]
Bouncing Back
Valorie Burton, author and life coach, just released a book called Where Will You Go from Here? with a subtitle: Moving forward when life doesn’t go as planned. Valorie was my life coach several years ago. She helped me work through and implement some of my lifetime dreams. When I first started with Valorie I [...]
Bold Change
“When you start to second guess yourself and let the masses dictate your product decisions, you’re done.” from techcrunch The quote above is about a product recently released by Apple. I think we could take out the word product and it would still hold true: “When you start to second guess yourself and let the [...]
Addendum to “Education”
Does “Education” expand or limit your options? This post, by Dan Miller, came across my inbox the day after my post on Education. Just wanted to share it with you as it offers an interesting perspective on Education.
