Have you got too comfortable?
Have you got too soft? As we approach the New Year I’ve got a question for you; ‘Is it time to move forward in your life, to stretch your abilities, and contribute more?’ Is being comfortable the way you really …
Author: Tim Gibney
Is there a proven path to success?
Is success even possible? Back some time ago my friend Linda Ferguson of NLP Canada recently posed this question ‘Is there a comfortable, proven way to build success?’ The area of her posting that truly got my attention was this …
Do you pay attention?
Or do you always assume that what people say is sensible? The Washington Post recently contributed the following to the discussion by addressing the sentence “wholeness quiets infinite phenomena.” Does it make sense to you? Can you see how becoming …
What is it that you want?
What is it that you really want? Recently I read the following quote from Thomas Merton, it made me stop and ponder the above questions. “Why do we spend our lives striving to be something we would never want to …
Would you like to get noticed?
Would getting noticed help you succeed? Would you consider doing any of the following? Driving an Army Tank down New York’s Fifth Avenue to launch a soft drink brand in the United States Crossing from Dover, England to Calais, France in …
Are you self-focused?
Or are you focused on the needs of others? Yes, I know we live in a world that says we must take care of our needs first, but is that really working? I know that you are a lot like …
How are things going?
Are there ways you can move you or your organization from good to great? Are you thinking that there is no need to improve on the way things are? If you are, this is a mistake. I write that because no matter …
What were they thinking?
Why do people do these things? The other day I received a wonderful letter from a charity with some stationary as a ‘gift’. The stationary was well prepared and was of high quality. In fact, it was so wonderful I …
What type of mind-set do you have?
Are you a person who is fixed in your thinking or do you have a growth mind-set? The fixed mind-set according to Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck presumes that our nature, intelligence, and creative capacity are unchanging; meaning that we …
Being optimistic vs. being positive?
Is it important to understand the difference? I think it is and let me tell you why. According to the dictionary being positive is that seeing everything as favorable or encouraging. While according to the same dictionary being optimistic is …