Category: Personal Growth

Sometimes we need a little help widening the gap between stimulus and response. Here are five exercises to help you calm down and respond like you want to.

Peter Drucker’s three stonecutters were focused on today’s actions, being their best self, and their vision for the future. We need all three perspectives, but only one will keep you in the game.

It’s easy to get worked up over something, but it doesn’t help. We just might end up farther away from our goals than we started.

We get better through experience. It’s not enough to just let time pass you by.

Getting (and staying) organized is often treated like an end unto itself, but it’s not. Organization is about what it enables.

The person we become is one of the biggest ends we ever have in mind. The higher you can set your vision, the higher you’re going to climb.

We often ask ourselves—out of frustration—why we never get anything done. The truth is, we’re getting more done than we realize. Whether or not it’s the work we want to accomplish is another question.

Don’t let the default solution be “more”. You’ll deny yourself the breakthroughs that come when you figure out how to do it with what you have.

You’ve already decided how you’re going to respond in most situations. Those decisions shape your actions, which in turn shape your reality.