(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Opportunities abound. At least they do for the person who is looking and aware. The more you look for opportunities the more you see. But few people spend much of their time looking. They are content to just…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Recently re-reading the entire collection of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons, written and drawn by Bill Watterson, I was struck by a recurring theme of Calvin’s and how it shows up in adults, too. Calvin, a six-year-old kid, and…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   It’s easy to get caught up in the work-hard-to-succeed model. Encouragement to do so is all around us. But my Coaching clients (highly successful folks) have demonstrated some compelling alternate views. For one thing, nobody ever became successful…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Letting go is an art. Initially it is a skill to be developed, but once developed, it becomes an art. Your art. That’s because the way you learn to let go will be unique, in all the universe. I…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Proficiency is Perishable. The truth about proficiency intruded my space recently. Having deferred learning to fly for forty years, I happily earned my Private Pilot’s…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   I read a new book the other day about the early days of the space program when I had an ah-ha. He describes how the astronauts — for the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Today starts the eighteenth year (870+ issues) of writing and sharing these weekly tips, from a Coaching perspective, about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It’s time for a change. I made the decision in the beginning to…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) What if you left people alone to just be themselves? What if you could enjoy them as they are? Radical ideas? Sure, but consider it. You would probably need to change some things in yourself and you can do…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   In the film business FPS means frames per second. To an engineer it stands for feet per second. For other arenas FPS has other meanings. In this S3MC F-P-S is short for ‘first there is Form, then there…

(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)   Okay, this may seem a weird example, but have you ever baked a cake and had it fall in the middle? If so, your first response was probably, “What ingredient did I leave out or which ingredient was…