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“Don’t try to be fearless…Just try to prevent fear from making your decisions for you.” – Chris Guillebeau We mention beliefs a lot in this space (like here, here, and here, for example) because [...]

“An optimist is someone who goes after Moby Dick in a rowboat and takes the tartar sauce with him.” – Zig Ziglar I’m a huge believer that the things we believe about ourselves and our situation [...]

“Some of us have great runways already built for us, and if you have one, just take off. But if you don’t have one, it’s your job to grab the shovel.” – Amelia Earhart One of the inescapable [...]

“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” – Henry Ford One of the things leaders talk about on a regular basis is quality. They may not use that exact word, but when [...]

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” – Martha Washington I recently published a book (I know, it’s hard for me to believe [...]

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt The past few posts in this space (here and here) have spent some time on the [...]

“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.” – Henry Ford It’s always interesting to me to think about people leaving their homes and sailing off [...]

“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” – Gen. Eric Shinseki If you can get past the disaster that his career became over the past few years, Shinseki’s quote is [...]

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln These days, everyone is busy. Almost any time you ask someone how they’re doing, they’ll answer with some form of “busy”. Work, family, [...]

“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I feel like I’ve written about belief a lot lately. If you’re sick of it, my apologies. Unfortunately, I keep [...]