It's easy to do the hard thing when you're motivated. When everything is going well and the idea is fresh. There's an energy and magnetism pulling you towards the work. Then that fades. It dulls out and gets hard. Life starts to get in the way. Excuses that you brushed off earlier now become real.... Continue Reading →
Commit
If you want a great outcome, you need to have a great commitment to the process. Without that, it's just empty words.
Skill
The more extraordinary skill isn't in making something great out of the best resources available, it's making something good out of the worst.
Perception of force
It's rarely an external force that causes us to act, rather our perception of that force. So if we focus our attention on that perception, we can change the acts. Why did something anger us? Was it the thing, or was it the perception of the thing? It’s the perception isn't it? That's good -... Continue Reading →
Candle
Never let how you treat people correlate with how much you like them, that says a whole lot more about you than it does about the other party. "A candle loses nothing by lighting another." - Scott McGee Just be a candle.
It’s always there
When you've tried everything else and you've been through all the excuses, all that's left is what you've avoided from the start... The Work.
Good, not easy
Don't confuse a good life with an easy one. They are not the same. A good life is a hard one that you overcome.
Individual Sacrifice
Communities don't function without individual sacrifice. It doesn't matter what that sentence gets related to, it's true. If you don't sacrifice for your community, then you are hoping someone else will. Luckily, for the most part, we still live in a society where there are more people willing to sacrifice than not. If that scale... Continue Reading →
Lazy in love
When we've been doing something for a long period of time and get comfortable with it, we can sometimes get lazy on it. Some of those things will play out just fine, just don't let love be one of those things.
When no one is watching
Displaying good character only when you have an audience is a facade. That's not who you really are. It's how you act when you know no one is watching that tells the real story.
Inspired Lion 