“It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” — Rumi When you break down distances into bite-sized chunks, they don’t seem all that bad. To walk 250 miles over the course of roughly two months I needed to average 35 miles per week,…
Some habits seem to go on no matter what. Others fall by the wayside at the first sign of trouble. If habits define who we are and where we’re going, then a good habit ought to be next to impossible to break, while a bad habit should be made as fragile as we can make…
“The beginning is always today.” ― Mary Shelley “There will never be a perfect time to do something that stretches you. If you were ready for it, it wouldn’t be growth.”― James Clear Each day we start over, usually carrying the weight of yesterday on our shoulders. There is something in this that is comforting,…
I want to break free, I want to break freeI want to break free from your liesYou’re so self-satisfied I don’t need youI’ve got to break freeGod knows, God knows I want to break free— Queen, I Want to Break Free When does a great habit ground another habit before it can take off? Are…
“Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity.” — Rollo May (via Poetic Outlaws) Some of us have an…
As I publish this, it’s the 18th of March, or the 77th day of the year. Lucky sevens, if you will, falling just after St. Patrick’s Day. The luck of the Irish following us? Let’s hope for that, but get back to living with purpose just the same. For we make our own luck, don’t…
“The person who gets 1 shot needs everything to go right.The person who gets 1000 shots is going to score at some point.Find a way to play the game that ensures you get a lot of shots.”— @JamesClear “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” — Wayne Gretzky Too many of us…
Planning is generally done in earnest this time of year, but at some point, action must take over. Too much planning becomes procrastination. We can plan ourselves all the way to the grave if we let ourselves. We must do to become. I believe it was Melissa Heisler who said living is a verb, not…
“Always remember this: whenever you have thought long and hard about a new idea or plan of action, working out lots of details and preparing for all sorts of contingencies, and you first tell someone else about it, they are hearing it for the first time. It will be nearly impossible for any newly informed…
“Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.“ —…