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.

Faith

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

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.  

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.

Letting Go

"Holding onto anger is like gripping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."  -Buddha

Obstacles

When you have a goal, obstacles are actually teaching you how to get to where you want to go - carving you a path. 

Distractions

Professor Gloria Mark, at the Department of Infomatics at the University of California, Irvine, has discovered that the average American worker is distracted roughly once every three minutes.

Hubris

If you don't have the patience to read something, don't have the hubris to comment on it.