S:1433 Principle: Change Yourself
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) It’s routine to want to change the world. After all, if they/it/over there would change to the way you want, then your life would be better/easier/happier. Sure, but how best to change them/it/over there? Well, you don’t. You change […]
S:1428 Principle: The Box At The End
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) No, this is not about THE box at the end although that may be the thought that arose from the title. This is about the boxes at the many ends which occur in life. You move to a new […]
S:1427 Principle: Old Socks, New Shoes
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) “Old Socks, New Shoes” is part of the title of a music album by The Jazz Crusaders. Strangely, I think the phrase holds a Coaching thought. Sometimes in life it’s time for something new. We want it, or need […]
S:1423 Principle: Emotions
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Reactions to this S3MC seem to be binary, either agree or not like it at all. So be it. I sure didn’t like it when it was first revealed to me. Upon awakening to its wisdom, I found levels […]
S:1419 Principle: Write To Learn
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) There are many ways to learn. This S3MC is about learning through the process of writing. In first high school, then college I was at best an awkward writer, uncomfortable creating sentences, paragraphs, whole papers. Struggling to write was […]
S:1416 Principle: Study
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) You become what you study. You study because you have to. You have to because someone or some situation makes you. Or you have to because you are so drawn to it that, well, you have to. Research, analyze, […]
S:1415 Principle: Cracked Windshields
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) The windshield cracked from a rock thrown up by a passing truck. Two hits, in fact, two cracks. Over the next few days snaking across right in front of the driver. It’s happened before. No problem, get the windshield […]
S:1410 Principle: Awareness
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Think about shining a light on an object. Seeing the lit object is different from the light which illuminates it. There must be light to see it, but the light is separate from it. There are reasons for this […]
S:1408 Principle: Aces
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) In poker, blackjack, and some other card games an Ace may be played – at the card-holder’s option – as either a high- or low-value card. As in, Ace-King-Queen-Jack-Ten or Ace-2-3-4-5. It depends on the other cards in the […]
S:1404 Principle: Filters
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Filters are some of Life’s little simplifiers. You don’t have to learn everything by yourself. You can use tools, processes, and approaches learned and perfected by others. Filters are some of those. Filters do a lot of the work […]