(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Today’s issue of the S3MC (issue #1135) begins the 23rd year of the weekly publishing of my thoughts on life, liberty, freedom, and the human condition. Since we, you and I, are unimaginably complex beings I’ll never run…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   “And I could cry for the time I’ve wasted But that’s a waste of time and tears And I know just what I’d change If went back in…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   There was an interesting sentence in an aviation magazine (I seem to be shown a lot of ideas from aviation!) about some folks who flew around Iceland for a one-week adventure: “In Iceland, the weather doesn’t care about…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   What is real to you depends on content and perception. Perception depends on context. The meaning of content, then, depends on the context within which it is experienced. Recall an event from your past about which your opinion…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   If you see something as a problem, it’s hard to see the gift within it. If you see something as a gift, it’s hard to see the problem within it. What you look for determines what you see…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   An interesting sentence stood out in a recent magazine article – “Machines don’t care about operator ignorance.” Of course they don’t, they’re not sentient. (At least not yet!) But what the sentence reminded me is that when we…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Draft ugly, edit pretty is a approach recommended by many writers. Great writing, it has been said, does not happen in the writing, but in the rewriting. In the movie/video business the phrase is, “Fix it in post,”…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Reading a book that is so good, wanting it to not end. Not rush on. Watching a movie’s engaging and likeable characters, wanting the story to not end. Not rush on. Visiting with a dear friend. Not rush…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Inspiration is insight. Non-linear. Sudden. Whole and complete. Inspiration is an ah-ha. An awakening. Simultaneously subtle and profound. Inspiration teaches, guides, supports, encourages, uplifts. It enhances discovery. Inspiration opens up, adds to, fills in, expands, and completes. Inspiration…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   I read a phrase recently which had a lot of power in a few words. “You spot it, you got it.” A bit of clarifying translation, “If you spot something in someone else which is upsetting you, then…