“Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job you’ll make a living, if you work hard on yourself you can make a life.” — Jim Rohn

We should invest in people, not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people, and good people can always make a bad idea better.

Hypothetically, if you were to begin asking the world – best friends, complete strangers, or natural born psychics – why some things haven’t worked out the way you wanted, how other things got so crazy, or what might be wrong with you (oh, please, no), they’d have answers. Oh, yeah.

Of course, at first they’d be taken aback that you even asked, but they’d hide this so as not to hurt your feelings, quickly accept the authority you surrendered, and then talk their little heads off with reasons, rationale, and insight… glad to be recognized and sincerely happy to be of service. And you’d both be further convinced that you have “issues.”

So, let’s not ever invent such opportunities.

 

 

Self-confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect, and still show respect in response.