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"All men dream, but not equally." ~T.E. Lawrence

" However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. " ~Winston Churchill

What You Can Learn from the Daily Routines of Top Performers ~Outside | Repost What the greatest adventurers, artists, runners, and entrepreneurs prioritize throughout their day, and how to incorporate that into you life ~ Brad Stulberg Feb 10, 2017  Photo: L to R: ryan_holiday/flickr; Hyosub Shin/AP; David Hanson/Aurora Photos; Christian Pondella/Red Bull Content Pool; cmichel67/flickr Routines bring structure to our days so we can get the most out of them. In his book,  Daily Rituals , author Mason Currey examines the routines of more than 150 great performers across diverse fields—artists, scientists, poets, mathematicians—and concluded that “a solid routine fosters a well-worn groove for one’s mental energies and helps to stave off the tyranny of moods.” Although there is no single best routine—the best routine is the one that works for you—learning from others is still instructive. Here, we consider the daily routines of some of the top athletes, artists, autho...

The Vital 3 Feet to Achievement ~Art of Manliness | Repost Art of Manliness’ note:  The following selection on “The Vital Three Feet to Achievement” comes from The Technique of Building Personal Leadership (1944) by Donald A. Laird. It has been condensed from the original chapter. For many years I have kept a magic rule on my desk. It has literally been worth more than its weight in gold to me. When I have an impulse to quit, this rule keeps me at work. When I become discouraged, it whispers encouragement. When I stop too long to watch the river, the rule calls me back. It all started back in the Colorado gold rush. A small-town Marylander was bit by the gold bug. This young man made the long trip to Colorado and started to dig for his fortune. And he did strike gold—an unusually rich vein. His find was so large that pick-and-shovel digging was inadequate. He needed machinery. He hurried back to Maryland, breathlessly told friends of his gold strike, of the great opp...

The Doing Mindset > The Thinking Mindset ~Thomas Oppong,  The Mission  | Repost " There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.  " ~   John F. Kennedy Balancing thought and action will always be a challenge for many people. How much time should you spend thinking vs. doing? With respect to goals, projects, and other to-do items, it’s easy to get stuck too long in the thinking and planning phase. Many people get excited about a lot of ideas. But unfortunately they easily begin pushing them further back on their to-do lists, if not completely disregarding them as being unfeasible or unreaslistic. When you value “the thinking mindset” more than “the doing mindset” you will eventually end up with a note app or notebook full of dozens or even hundreds of ideas and plans. Greater percentage of them will never be done. And you will most likely not think about a lot of them again....

The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness, by Jeff Olson  This edition published:November 4, 2013 Description:  “The Slight Edge” is a way of thinking, a way of processing information that enables you to make the daily choices that will lead you to the success and happiness you desire. Learn why some people make dream after dream come true, while others just continue dreaming and spend their lives building dreams for someone else. It s not just another self-help motivation tool of methods you must learn in order to travel the path to success. It shows you how to create powerful results from the simple daily activities of your life, by using tools that are already within you. Purchase:  Amazon Books Simply put, this is one of the best books I’ve read on the subject of making smart choices and seeing them thru.  Jeff Olson destroys the myth of the “over night success”, based on the principles of compound inte...

" Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. "~Warren Buffett

Easy to forecast that there will be about a million articles, blog posts, Facebook statuses and tweets dealing with New Year's Resolutions.  There will be triple the number of opinions on doing them or not doing...how you should do them or how you shouldn't do them...why you should do them or why shouldn't do them that way...and on and on. I'll tell you right off the bat, this posting is in favor of doing them.  Many of those opinions mentioned above will tell you not to waste your time.  They'll say that New Year's Resolutions just set you up for failure.  And, well, they are mostly correct.  Most of us get psyched about the New Year, the clean slate, new beginnings, we make a big grandiose list of our dreams and desires and wants.  But then the old habits trump the new desires and the gravity of the day to day pulls us back down to earth.  The next thing we know, is that it is March and we've forgotten all about our list. There in...

The Common Denominator of Success by Albert E.N. Gray This inspiring message first appeared as a major address at the 1940 NALU (National Association of Life Underwriters) annual convention in Philadelphia.   Several years ago I was brought face to face with the very disturbing realization that I was trying to supervise and direct the efforts of a large number of men who were trying to achieve success, without knowing myself what the secret of success really was. And that, naturally, brought me face to face with the further realization that regardless of what other knowledge I might have brought to my job, I was definitely lacking in the most important knowledge of all. Of course, like most of us, I had been brought up on the popular belief that the secret of success is hard work, but I had seen so many men work hard without succeeding and so many men succeed without working hard that I had become convinced that hard work was not the real secret even though in most ca...

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least." ~ Goethe