Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential

Resilience

Resilience, according to the Stoics, is about having the good sense to know what can and cannot be changed in life.

Setbacks

Setbacks and failures are designed to be learning lessons.  So don't overreact or panic.  Rather, take a step back, search to the lesson, and move forward better prepared.

Faith

Don't let your circumstances alter your faith.  Let your faith alter your circumstances.

Lighten Up

If you're serious all the time, you'll wear out before the truly serious stuff gets done, and if you don't regularly appreciate the small wins, you will never appreciate the big wins.

Change

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."  -James Baldwin, writer

Being Present

Being present demands all of us.  With all the distractions today, it may be the hardest thing in the world to do, but well worth the effort.  It's the only way to slow down time. 

Focus

Gallup has reported that the average American spends 17-minutes a day reading books and 5.4 hours a day on their phone.  

Present

This moment we are experiencing right now is a gift (that's why we call it the present).   Even if it is a stressful, trying experience - it could be our last.  So let's develop the ability to be in it, to put everything we have into appreciating the plentitude of the now.  

Determination

Determination trumps IQ.

Grind

If you only do the work when it's convenient or exciting, then you'll never be consistent enough to achieve remarkable results.