When we are preoccupied with our opportunities in business and life, we can lose sight of the end goal. In business and life, there is no bigger emergency than having no customers. Without customers (think of customers in a new and different way - friends, family, associates etc.) there is no Continue Reading
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The journey to wisdom
Wisdom cannot be found in books or travel, in learning or philosophy, it is acquired by practice only. A man may read the precepts of the greatest sages continually, but if he does not purify and govern himself he will remain foolish. A man may be intimately conversant with the writings of the Continue Reading
Disposition
What is disposition but a habit formed by repeating the same thing over and over again? Cease repeating (doing) the thing, and lo! the disposition is changed, the character is altered. To cease from an old habit of thought or action is, I know, difficult at first, but with each added effort Continue Reading
Action vs Folly
Wisdom is right action, right doing; folly is wrong action, wrong-doing. All reading, all study, all learning is vain if a man will not see his errors and give them up. Wisdom says to the vain man, "Do not praise yourself," to the proud man, "Humble yourself," to the gossip, "Govern your Continue Reading
