Personal Development

Reaching your goals is not success if you compromise your values along the way. Getting ahead shouldn't force you to leave people behind. No accomplishment is worth sacrificing kindness or integrity. Ambition shapes what you achieve. Character is defined by how you achieve it.

Every interesting outcome in my life was unpredictable and was the result of good habits, strictly practiced. This is the opposite of “vision” “big, hairy, audacious goals” and “accomplishments.” The best kind of success is continuous, every day, not occasional.

Blaming and complaining are mixtures of genuine grief and defensive anger.