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If success is a catalyst for failure because it leads to the “undisciplined pursuit of more,” then one simple antidote is the disciplined pursuit of less .

The Five Steps of Emotion Coaching:

1. Be Aware of Your Child’s Emotions: Recognize your child’s feelings as opportunities for connection and teaching.


2. Recognize Emotion as an Opportunity for Connection and Teaching: Use emotional moments to bond with your child and impart valuable lessons.


3. Help Your Child Verbally Label Emotions: Assist your child

career is a device that businesses and managers can use as a motivation to get the deference and feigned enthusiasm that they want (and often feel they need) from employees.

The price we pay for dreaming is the possibility of drowning; the price we pay for not dreaming is the surety of coasting through life in a stupor of autopilot, landlocked in the givens of our time, place, and culture. The dreamer, then, is the only one fully awake to life — that bright technology of the possible the universe invented to prevail

Strategy vs Tactics — Sun Tzu: “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”

The modern understanding of a career in most knowledge work fields involves a non-trivial amount of sacrifice. You are expected to pay your dues, work your way up, and ride out the rough patches. Endurance is key. If you stick it out long enough, there’s something great on the other side — primarily security. Even in jobs where management is less

Our jobs have become prisons from which we don’t want to escape

o overcome procrastination, find a way to start your task in less than two minutes.

So why don’t we live life that way? Why don’t we accept falling — even if it’s a failure — as part of the ride?

Because we’re afraid of feeling.