Prepare for hard. The harder it will be, the harder you must prepare. Prepare for Hard Sometimes it’s hard I swim in cold water. In winter, our pool gets cold. It gets almost no sun in the day, and the winter wind and rains just keeps draining every bit of heat energy from it, day after day – the kind of cold that when you stick your hand in it, it is physically painful. Every two or three days, I swim in this pool first thing in the morning. Before sunrise. Getting into that water is...

There are only three sources of motivation that get us to take action. Fear, discipline, or direct desire. Understanding this and being deliberate about it can enable you to build an environment where you and your people become more positively motivated and live lives free from fear. Only three sources of motivation The Three Sources of Motivation Understanding the basics of motivation, both in yourself, as well as in people you deal with, can help you be much more effective in accomplishing...

Thinking that you are evaluating a situation rationally, whilst ignoring the emotional realities of how you are responding to the situation, and how those around you are responding to the situation, is not rational – it's just denial. You cannot be truly rational without being deeply emotional Let emotion cloud your judgement I grew up with, and carried for most of my life, the belief that I should not let emotions cloud my judgement. Over the past few years I have come to learn that when...