Posts tagged success.

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection, we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.

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If I ever…

If I ever accomplish something so extraordinary that someone asks me how I did it, I hope I have the good sense and wherewithal to tell them that I just did it, the only way anything gets done: I decided that it was more important than doing the dishes in the sink, or finding a snack, or surfing the web for pictures of mammals in compromising poses, so I did this other thing instead.