What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.
What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.
What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.
~ from Switch by Chip and Dan Heath
“We can continue to...spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies.” ~ Buzz Aldrin
“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You see everything is about belief, whatever we believe rules our existence, rules our life.” ~ Don Miguel Ruiz
"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew." ~ Saint Francis de Sales
“Amidst the worldly comings and goings, observe how endings become beginnings.” ~ Tao Te Ching
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
“It’s not the size of the step that gets you there. It’s the fact that you’re taking the step.” ~ Mark Victor Hansen
“There is little success where there is little laughter.” ~ Andrew Carnegie
“When you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” ~ Goethe
“Always do what you are afraid to do.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination, they usually just evaporate.” ~ Jack Canfield
“He who fears to suffer suffers from fear.” ~ proverb
“Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.” ~ Chamfort (French playwright, 1741-1794)
“Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.” ~ Chamfort
"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." ~ John Riskin
"You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures." ~ Charles C. Noble
“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.” ~ Alan Alda
"There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction." ~ John. F. Kennedy
"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold." ~ Helen Keller
What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.
What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.
~ from Switch by Chip and Dan Heath
“We can continue to...spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies.” ~ Buzz Aldrin
“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You see everything is about belief, whatever we believe rules our existence, rules our life.” ~ Don Miguel Ruiz
"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew." ~ Saint Francis de Sales
“Amidst the worldly comings and goings, observe how endings become beginnings.” ~ Tao Te Ching
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
“It’s not the size of the step that gets you there. It’s the fact that you’re taking the step.” ~ Mark Victor Hansen
“There is little success where there is little laughter.” ~ Andrew Carnegie
“When you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” ~ Goethe
“Always do what you are afraid to do.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination, they usually just evaporate.” ~ Jack Canfield
“He who fears to suffer suffers from fear.” ~ proverb
“Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.” ~ Chamfort (French playwright, 1741-1794)
“Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.” ~ Chamfort
"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." ~ John Riskin
"You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures." ~ Charles C. Noble
“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.” ~ Alan Alda
"There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction." ~ John. F. Kennedy
"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold." ~ Helen Keller