How to Stop Overthinking and Take Action Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. Attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte The email is ready. You have checked the recipient’s name, corrected a typo, and read it twice. Then you read it again. Perhaps the opening sounds too Read more…
How Adversity Makes You Stronger, Even When It Doesn’t Feel That Way A rejection email rarely arrives at a convenient time. You open it between errands, perhaps, or just before dinner. A few polite sentences undo weeks of hoping. Then someone tells you it might be a blessing in disguise, and you have to resist Read more…
How to Push Beyond Your Limits and Make the Impossible Possible The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke Most of us know what it feels like to stand at the edge of something unfamiliar and immediately begin listing Read more…
What If Passion Is Not the Problem? There is probably something you have been meaning to do for a while. Perhaps you want to start writing, learn to paint, apply for a different job, or turn an idea into a small business. You think about it now and then. You may even have a document Read more…
The Stories We Never Hear If your life is free of failures, you’re not taking enough risks. H. Jackson Brown Jr. A few years ago, I watched an interview with a business owner who had built a company worth millions. The conversation followed a familiar pattern. The interviewer wanted to know about the turning points, Read more…
Why Taking Risks in Life Often Matters More Than Winning Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. At first glance, this quote sounds motivational in the way many internet quotes do. Short. Clean. Easy to agree with. But the more you sit with it, the more Read more…
When Desire Becomes Stronger Than Fear In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. Bill Cosby At first glance, it sounds like one of those motivational lines you nod at and scroll past. But if you pause for a second — really pause — it starts to Read more…
