(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Purpose. A lot has been written and said about it because purpose is a significant part of a life well lived. Its power may lie in one simple thought: There is no forward without purpose. Purpose is a…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Currently popular advice, in a world speeding up, is that you should slow down, live your life more slowly. All in all, not bad advice, but there is another side to it. It has to do with flow…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   A recent book review by Cecily Sailer had some interesting language. (I haven’t read the book; it was the language in her review which caught my attention.) The book is a memoir and the reviewer said, in part…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Talking with one of my grandsons about his struggle with a math class I asked him a question, “What are your thoughts about the math you learned two years ago?” Oh well, he said, that stuff is easy…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Having stewardship of a timber farm has taught me a few lessons. An important one is the benefit of effective pruning. There are many types of pruning and many reasons for it. Some kinds of trees have major…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Dense jungle can be intimidating. I was recently reminded of such while reading an engaging, humorous, interesting book about the Inca culture of Peru (Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Today’s issue of the S3MC is the start of its 21st year. To assure that you get all the benefit from your weekly email/blog: First, there is a database of all 1000+ issues freely available online at https://steves3minutecoaching.com…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   There is The Road Ahead and The Road Behind. The one ahead is better. Some people tend to drag the past along with them and use it to explain why they’re not getting what they want today. Their…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   A few days ago a speaker used, in passing, the phrase, “We can do better.” For some reason it lodged in me. Now I see why. We are, each in our unique way, on the journey of our…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   The American writer Flannery O’Connor once said that every story has “a beginning, a middle, and an end, though not necessarily in that order.” Life can be like that. Just because time seems to unfold in a linear…