We Ask for More of What We Already Have Ask anyone what they need, and listen to the answer. Most people will ask for more of what they already have. A bigger house. A better relationship. More safety. More comfort. More luxury. It sounds reasonable. It sounds...
We Pay for Time, Then Wonder Why Things Take So Long Look at how most working arrangements are set up, and what each one actually asks of the people inside it. The employee sells time. They show their value by ticking off milestones, turning up happily, staying...
Every Strength Has a Fine Line There are fine lines between being kind and being soft. Between being courageous and being aggressive. Between being proactive and being restless. Each pair sits on the same spectrum. The first is a strength. The second is the same...
The Signs of Success Are Not for You Success rarely arrives in one big moment. It shows up in little signs. Nobody hands you a certificate saying you have made it. Instead, the world around you starts to behave differently. Slowly at first, then more noticeably. And...
We Complicate Things by Default Look at what we eat. Simple food is usually better food. A plate of vegetables, grains, lentils or a piece of fish cooked plainly will do more for you than something that has passed through a factory, picked up a list of ingredients you...
Seeing Clearly We all see the world around us uniquely. The world around us is unique to us. We make sense of people, activities, positions and events through our own experience, our own hopes and our own fears. Two people can sit in the same meeting, hear the same...
Success Takes Time to Build. Failure Takes Time to Show. It takes time to achieve anything meaningful. Work, learning and improvement compound over time. None of them pay out much in the first month, or the first year. Then, slowly, the results improve. What looked...
If There Is Only One Blessing, I Would Ask for Strength If there is only one blessing I may get, I know what I would ask for. Not success. Not wealth. Not protection from failure. I would ask for the blessing of strength: to be able to keep going positively in life,...