Self-Confidence

John: What if I sleep in today and I am a late or worse, I miss it? What if I don’t get everything done today and I let my team down and my boss thinks I am a loser? What if my investments are [...]

John: Here is a full confession. I don’t believe perfection exists at all. I have a theory. I can do something perfectly or I can do something that is good enough. Things that fall into the [...]

John – For the longest time, all I ever wanted was a stable home. When I was growing up my house was filled with chaos; organized chaos would be a better characteristic. There was a lot of [...]

John: When I was younger, I used to think I had a lot of friends. But I really didn’t. I had a great group of friends when I as growing up, a bunch of neighborhood kids that I always ran with, [...]

John: I don’t want to struggle for the sake of struggle. I think that’s dumb. Some of what we see as struggle is really just paralysis and bad decisions by choice. Back in the day, you could go [...]

John: Goke tells the story of two monks – Tanzan and Ekido were once traveling together down a muddy road. A heavy rain was still falling. Coming around a bend, they met a lovely girl in a [...]

John: Kelly tells me more times than I would care to admit, “John, shut the refrigerator door; John, please take the bowl out of the sink and put it in the dishwasher like I asked you; John, I [...]

John: According to Hyght (2019), we as human are hardwired to avoid pain and seek pleasure. But to be super-extraordinary and perform extraordinarily well, you must take the hard road and do [...]

John: I can just tell you what works for me. When I get faced with a challenge, I put my head down and I go to work. It worked for me 10 years ago and it works now. My foundation is rooted in [...]

John: I told this story recently, but it bears repeating again. Goke says there are three types of people. He calls them Fred, Thomas and Clark. Think of Fred, like you would Fred Flintstone, the [...]