Do. Or Do Not. There is no Try.

As the great Jedi-master, Yoda, said to his young protégé Luke. Some of the best advice about commitment and goal setting that I have heard. It’s in the power of language. The choices you make when you state – emphatically – to do something. Or not.

This time of year is filled with resolutions that are [...]

Fake it till you make it – instead, try this…

How about this instead, “Live as if…”  Live as if it’s already occurring in your life.  Live as if, you have already achieved it.  Live as if…(you fill in the blank!).
This phrase, as opposed with “Fake it til you make it” allows you and I to be real, authentic and live life with intergrity and [...]

Excellent Habits.

On the elliptical machine at the gym, a women wore a shirt with this phrase – “Excellence is not an act.  It is a habit.” Last night I was reading in The Power of Focus, the precursor to Jack Canfield’s The Success Principles, a chapter of creating habits.  Interesting concept.  Habits are those things I’ve [...]