251 A Rough Diamond

What does a rough diamond look like? Do you know? I don't.   A man sold his Homestead and wandered the world to return one … [Read more...]

207 Begin, Middle, End

Some people are good at starting things, projects, proposals. Saying yes. Some at doing the middle stuff that makes it run. Continues … [Read more...]

199 Everything

Repeat after me: I am NOT good at everything. I will stop trying to be good at everything. Or 'implying' I am good at … [Read more...]

195 Four Stages

We all go through these steps and in this order: 1. Un-conscious In-competence You don’t know that there is something to which you … [Read more...]

162 Consider the Source

My best friend always gives me advice. On almost everything. But when I consider the source, I discount almost everything he … [Read more...]

100 Ransom Notes

Bad guys take a newspaper, cut out certain words and reorganize them into a Ransom demand. And we all know the newspaper did not say … [Read more...]

90 Good/Bad

It's impossible to understand something without also automatically understanding its opposite.   Can you build stairs just going … [Read more...]

64 Natural Talents

Natural Talent is automatic and invisible. "Honey, where are my keys?" He says, knowing she automatically knows where they are. And she … [Read more...]

39 Increasing Intuition

The common belief is men have Reason and women Intuition. Yet everyone has some sort of Intuition. So how does one go about ‘exercising' … [Read more...]

36 Prime Time

Here is a guarantee of sadness and failure: try to ‘look young' your whole life. As if that were the only value you had/held. As if that … [Read more...]

2 Normal Luck

When things go ‘right' I say I'm LUCKY. That, though, keeps me ‘here' with LUCKY over ‘there'   One day someone asked me … [Read more...]