This is the title of an inspiring book, subtitled “A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea,” by Bob Burg and John David Mann. The story is indeed short; the book can be read in no more than three or four hours. Its main character is Joe, who learns the “Five Laws of Stratospheric Success.” […]
M. Scott Peck: “In my practice as a psychotherapist, I regularly told my patients: Psychotherapy is not about happiness, but about power. If you go the whole way, I cannot guarantee that you will leave here even one iota happier. What I can promise you is that you will leave here more competent.” And I […]
Yesterday I was visiting some friends, and the hostess was talking about how every week acquaintances called her to ask whether she could help them find a job. She is very compassionate, and I could sense how she worried about them and suffered because she could not help them. At the same time, I saw […]
“Don’t aim at success – the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the […]
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” — Abraham Lincoln This is an inspiring thought, born from an equally inspiring and successful life.
Neale Donald Walsch: “The problem is not money. The real question is whether you have the courage to give your greatest talent. There is no security in doing something for your livelihood if you are dying inside while doing it. That is taking care of the body while, inside yourself, you are dying as you […]
From a book of parables: “They poured balls into a box—wooden and copper—of the same size. They closed the lid, waited, opened it. Just as they had lain before, so they remained. They closed it again and shook the box well. They opened it and looked. The wooden balls were on top; the copper ones […]
“If you believe you have nothing to lose, you win. If you believe you have something to gain, you lose. It all comes down to motivation. Why are you doing what you are doing right now? To avoid loss? To achieve gain? Both are the wrong reasons. Life is not about winning or losing. Life […]
“Spirit uses the word abundance in the sense of sufficiency — but sufficiency from day to day. And if you are always in the present moment, then every day you will be here and now. This is abundance.”* –Lee Carroll *Translation from Bulgarian
From Noel Button, The Path of Extraordinary Success and Self-Belief: “The only thing that can be said with certainty about life is that every time we set out to pursue a goal or a dream, there will be people who will tell us that it is impossible. In order to succeed in any direction, we […]
