S:1304 Principle: Own
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) What do you own? Things and stuff? Land and real estate? Freedom? Ideas and creativity? Yes to all of those. And no. Epictetus, a slave in Rome, later freed, later still banished to Greece, was a philosopher who said […]
S:1300 Principle: Ready
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) “Ready!” “Aim!” “Fire!” And the greatest of these is Ready. Sure, nothing happens until you ‘pull the trigger.’ That is the final creator of a result. Some hesitate to fire and miss opportunities. Others fire too soon and miss […]
S:1295 Principle: Anniversaries
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Another S3MC addressed milestones. Anniversaries are similar to milestones, sharing many attributes, while having an important difference. There are countless kinds of anniversaries. Wedding anniversaries, of course. Also, the start date of a business; marking Twelve Step sobriety; birthday […]
S:1291 Principle: Milestones
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Milestones can be of any size, any significance. A milestone’s importance is personal. Birthdays, starting dates, finals, one-of-a-kinds – their significance depends on how you view them, your perspective, your positionality. Some may be shared by others and thus […]
S:1290 Principle: Learning
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Some lessons are learned more deeply than others. The deepest usually have strong emotions. Rarely is a lesson learned by only hearing advice. Case in point is about boots. Or more correctly about scorpions in boots. I had heard […]
S:1288 Principle: Making Progress
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Stuck while improving something recently I bumped into an old bit of wisdom which helped me get moving. Paraphrasing – when you have a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look […]
S:1284 Principle: The Best He Could Be
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) We were talking about his late father, specifically the relentless way his father had pushed him to excel, when he casually said, “He wanted me to be the best he could be.” Whoa! What did you say? “…the best […]
S:1281 Principle: See
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Driving to the farm along back country roads both sides of the road were littered with flowers. Bright and subtle, tall and carpet-like, and in an array of colors almost hard to believe. Beautiful. Miles and miles. Spring, as […]
S:1275 Principle: Revert to the Mean
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) You learned about the mean in middle school math class. You may have even made a wordplay around ‘meanness’ thinking yourself to be quite clever. The mean is the description of what all variables return to. (By the laws […]
S:1271 Principle: Comfort Zone
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Rather than trying to grow by pushing yourself out of your comfort zone (common advice) how about simply expanding your comfort zone? There are many ways. Give up the push. That may be hard for some because their conditioning […]