rules to live by

Coach Lou Holtz offers 3 rules:

“I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.”

Adversity is a terrible thing to waste

1. "Discipline is the greatest thing in the world. Where there is no discipline, there is no character."

2. Guard your habits. Bad ones will destroy you."

“You can’t improve what you don’t understand.” —Peter Drucker

“Always go to the funeral” means that I have to do the right thing when I really, really don’t feel like it. I have to remind myself of it when I could make some small gesture, but I don’t really have to and I definitely don’t want to. I’m talking about those things that represent only inconvenience to me, but the world to

When stumped by a life choice, choose “enlargement” over happiness. I’m indebted to the Jungian therapist James Hollis for the insight that major personal decisions should be made not by asking, “Will this make me happy?”, but “Will this choice enlarge me or diminish me?” We’re terrible at predicting what will make us happy: the question swiftly