“Pay attention to your thoughts, because they become words. Pay attention to your words, because they become actions. Pay attention to your actions, because they become habits. Pay attention to your habits, because they become your character. Pay attention to your character, because it is your fate.”
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The Island That Never Is
Have you booked your summer holiday for this year? We’ve got a couple of weeks in sunny Portugal to look forward to. The villa is booked, as are the flights and now there’s just the hire car to get sorted. Yippee! Sepia Tinged Freedom Of Youth In my single days, (those long-gone halcyon moments of [...]
Had A Good Day?
People use their time in all sorts of different, fun and challenging ways to do all sorts of different, fun and challenging things. Take a few minutes out of your day to watch this short clip and see what you get inspired to do. I’m thinking about the fun activity at 3 minutes 44 secs. [...]
Step Back
How do you know that what you are doing is working? Many people convince themselves that they are moving forward by making sure they are incredibly busy. They think that if they are busy, then that must mean they’re progressing, and it’s an easy mistake to fall into. Making Progress? Especially when they become good [...]
‘ACT’ On It
A brief visit to acronym city today and it’s a great one. Really easy to remember, very very effective and one that almost everyone in the world could benefit from using at one time or another. ACT Action Conquers Terror ACT is a straight to the point, direct and handy little shortcut to one of [...]
Getting Going
Often people find that they can’t seem to get started and a cycle of laziness goes around and around. This cycle is based on the myth that motivation precedes action whereas, it’s actually the other way round. If you start to do something you’ll be more inclined to do more of it. So get up [...]
Final Failure?
I spoke about failure a little while ago and I had an interesting response from one reader who was convinced that I was wrong. This little extract sums up his thoughts succinctly: “Failure is failure, that’s just how it is. If you’ve got it wrong you’ve got it wrong, no matter how you look at [...]
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