We live in a society that breeds discontent by defining success as bigger homes, nicer cars, and fuller closets. Gratitude is the cure.
01155 – Gratitude Cures Discontent
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00818 – What Really Matters
At the end of life, what really matters is not what we bought but what we built; not what we got but what we shared; not our competence but our character; and not our success, but our significance. Live a life that matters. Live a life of love.
00536 – Step Outside Your Comfort Zone
Risk is stepping outside your comfort zone to a place where you cannot predict with any degree of certainty the outcome of your actions. Risk is taking on something that holds an enormous chance of failure. Most importantly, risk is the only real key to outrageous...
00301 – Living in Someone Else’s Imagination
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else’s imagination, as if that were the only place in...
00300 – Don’t Just Fail; Learn from Failure
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
00299 – Success vs. Happiness
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
00145 – New Every Morning
The amazing thing about love and attention and encouragement and grace and success and joy is that these things are infinite. We get a new supply every single morning and so we can give it away all day. We never, ever have to monitor the supply of others or grab or...
00011 – Identifying with the Majority
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.