“People spend their entire lives at those lower altitudes without any awareness that this high country exists.” – Robert Pirsig from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance If you spend all your time in the valley, you’ll miss the view, you’ll miss life at the peak, at a higher level.  Going for new, higher goals means climbing to higher ground.  It means moving through the thinner air of uncertainty, maneuvering the switchbacks – the zigzag path you encounter as you climb to greater heights.  . If you want more in your life, you have to go higher.  You have to climb, to move through rough terrain, to persist on your journey as the grade gets steeper and more effort is required.   …

“Life change doesn’t start with inspiration.  Life change starts with education.” – Jim Rohn You can’t do what you don’t know.  Unless you’re willing to continually put in the time to acquire knowledge and expand your skills, you are limiting yourself.  What you knew yesterday will not be sufficient for tomorrow. Working hard is not enough.  Lots of people work hard – wonderful, inspired people with the best intentions.  But to move ahead, and not just run

“Luck is the last dying wish of those who wanna believe that winning can happen by accident.” – from Motivational Video There’s the right way, and there’s the easy way.  Guess which one wins. Achievement, excellence, and mastery – they’re by design; through effort and sweat, not the luck of the draw.  They are the fruits of careful planning, of preparation and long hours of labor – labor of love.   They …

“Powerlessness can be an object of comfort…” – Angelica Powers It’s frightening to discover that you possess power, that you make choices that alter your life, that you are the one who makes your dreams real. Many have dreams, but won’t exercise their power, the power to choose.  They relinquish their dreams to fate, to others.  They refuse to step forward into the unknown, because stepping forward is risky, is scary. There’s a door ahead.  Your dreams are on the other side.  But to open the door you must first walk through a dark, unfamiliar room. To boldly step forward is to acknowledge you are taking charge of your life.  Yet most prefer to stay put, to stay stuck in …

“What’s the point?” What’s the secret to the meaning of life? There are so many books and seminars and online commentaries about how to succeed, how to create wealth, how to get what you want. But is the acquisition of property and things the end game? Is achievement within the ebb and flow of commerce why we’re here? Or is it to be grateful for the beginning …

“Changing is difficult, not changing is fatal.” – Glenn Llopis, in Forbes magazine When companies fail to change, when they fail to keep up with the marketplace, they die.  They go out of business, get acquired, disappear. When we fail to change, or worse, when we refuse to change, we become less and less relevant to our world. Our failure to change doesn’t alter our intrinsic worth, but it certainly diminishes our contribution to ourselves and to our world. Why get smaller?  Why not embrace difficulty and make the change – for the better?

“Those who say yes are rewarded by the the adventure they gain.  Those who say no are rewarded by the safety they get.” – Keith Johnstone So today, what will it be?  The electricity of adventure?  Or the stillness of safety? Today, who will you be?  The originator, or the duplicator?   Someone moving toward the edge, toward possibility, or someone stuck in the middle? Every day, you get to choose.  So today, what will it be?  To gain?  Or to get?