(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Perspective is everything. Perspective provides the context necessary to understand content. An example of perspective: Fishing can be fun.Digging a tunnel can be work. Unless you are a worm. Different perspective; different context; different meaning. Coaching Point: The need…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Don’t believe everything you think. You think a lot. A nearly continuous stream of thoughts. It’s useful to think. But to have unexamined thoughts, unexamined beliefs, not so much. A belief is a thought you’ve thought a lot. It’s…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Never measure yourself by what others can do. Only by what you can do. Sure, be inspired by what someone else can do or has done. Use that inspiration to motivate yourself. Measuring/comparing relative to them is something else…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) There is an old bit of wisdom – “When a pickpocket meets a saint, he only sees his pockets.” It’s about where we choose to put our focus. Since we tend to see what we look for it’s important…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Happiness is a response. Many look to external events to ‘provide’ their happiness. The only thing externals do is trigger responses from within. One response is happiness. The unrestrained laughter of a child; a sunrise or sunset; your sports…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Nothing changes if nothing changes. Coaching Point: If you are stuck, why?If you are waiting for change to happen, why? Copyright 2019 Steve Straus. All rights reserved…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) It is not the events in in your life which are causing how you feel. It is how you are reacting to those events. Coaching Point: What do you think might happen if you never blamed again? What would…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   If you don’t have clarity, don’t make up a story. Clarity is one of the ‘secret’ tools of highly successful people. Whether taking or withholding action to do so with clarity is smart. People who struggle tend to…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   An issue of mine sidestepped for years became clear. (If you have never sidestepped something, you may ignore the rest of this S3MC.) The issue: I enjoy the first time nearly always, the ninth nearly never. Discovery, curiosity…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Deciduous trees drop their leaves. They lie there. Having ever tried to blow the leaves into piles – while the wind is blowing! – you’ve experienced an attribute of life which shows up in other than leaves. If…