beliefs – Page 4 – CainEllsworth

What to Change First?

“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.” – Katherine Mansfield We’ve talked in this space before about beliefs and attitude, about how your beliefs about whatever situation you’re confronted with dictate your behavior in that situation, which leads to a predictable result. … Read more

Enough Already

“People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.” – Stephen Hawking It feels like lately in this space there’s been a lot of talk about belief and positive self-talk and that kind of touchier, feelier stuff. I have people tell me that they’re not big fans of that kind of … Read more

Obstacles

“The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.” – Woodrow Wilson Last week’s post revolved around the idea that whatever we focus on and believe about the world and about ourselves eventually becomes reality. If you … Read more

What Can You Do?

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden I’m not a psychiatrist, nor have I done any scientific studies, but it seems like most of us humans are very similar. We have all these things in our lives that are great, but what we want to spend … Read more

Attitude = Behavior

“If you don’t think every day is a good day, just try missing one.” – Cavett Robert Over the past year I spent (wasted?) a fair amount of time trying to help a particular local business owner. Finally, after several months of misguided effort, I finally managed to end our business relationship. It took me … Read more

Be Grateful

“You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can be grateful that thorn bushes have roses.” – Tom Wilson It’s a short work week for most of you (me too!) so I’ll keep this brief. Quite often this time of year we remind ourselves of all the things we really appreciate about our lives … Read more

Think Big

“Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.” – David Joseph Schwartz Last week’s post was about attitude. I’ve been reminded of the power of attitude & belief again over the past week, albeit from a slightly different angle. I was visiting with a somewhat successful business owner about … Read more

Leaders and Attitude

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” – Maya Angelou We’ve talked about the idea of locus of control in this space before, and the idea that as leaders we don’t have enough time or energy to waste either on things we can’t control. Reading … Read more

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