Life has the meaning we give it — our richness, our enthusiasm, our pride — or our cowardice. ~Miguel Torga. The search for meaning is a constant theme in our lives. In a sense, the search for meaning is our primary pursuit in life, and people have found all kinds of ways to imbue their lives with meaning. But I believe that meaning can be found in the way we
On October 29 1941, the United Kingdom’s then Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited Harrow School – his almer mater – to speak to the students. The speech he made became one of his most quoted – or rather, misquoted – speeches. The myth is that Churchill stood before the students and said, ‘Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, give in. Never give in. Never give in. Never give in.’
If you were unlucky enough to get caught in quicksand, you would find very soon that struggling to free yourself led to your sinking even faster. A man who cannot swim and struggles to stay afloat will end up sinking. The best option would be relax, let go, and stop fighting. A fly caught in a spider’s web can only hasten its demise by continuing to struggle. This, of course,
“I’m just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round. I really love to watch them roll” – John Lennon Setting goals is one of our favorite pastimes. For the most part, we’ve grown up with the idea that things are achieved when we make plans and take the necessary action towards them. We also tend to think similar things about goals. Usually, we associate goals with effort and
Many years ago, I read a beautiful description of the sun shining through the branches of a tree in winter. The low sun’s rays come streaming through, but only because the tree is bare. In the summer, when the tree is in loaded with leaves and flowers, the light cannot penetrate, but in winter, when the branches, stripped of their foliage, stand naked, and no color remains, the sunlight can
There’s an old Swedish proverb that goes, “God gives every bird a worm, but he doesn’t throw it into the nest.” Success is not something that’s given to you; it’s something that you become. It’s something that you go after and change into. Success comes when you follow the principles of success. Today I want to discuss five life-changing principles of success that will strategically position you to succeed and
When I was a child, I heard a wonderful story. Like all good tales, it is appealing in its simplicity, and it stays with you over the years, taking on new layers of meaning as time goes by. It goes something like this … “The sun and the wind were arguing over which of them was the more powerful. After a while, they noticed a man walking along the
Timothy Ferris, author of the “4 Hour Work Week” wrote, “The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits. There is just less competition for bigger goals. If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate
1. What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. ~Ralph Marston 2. Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. ~John F. Kennedy 3. What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals. ~Henry David Thoreau 4. To be a good loser is to learn how to win. ~Carl Sandburg 5. To be wholly devoted to some intellectual
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. ~Henry David Thoreau People are sometimes classified as ‘introverts’ or ‘extroverts.’ Commonly confused with terms such as ‘shy’ and ‘outgoing,’ these two types of people are different in one quintessential way, and it has nothing to do with shyness or otherwise. Introverts generally find the company of other people rather draining and need time