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One topic. One honest look at it. Each Peace of Wisdom takes a single idea — a habit worth building, a setback worth reframing, a word worth choosing carefully — and turns it over until something useful comes loose. Short enough to read in a minute, sturdy enough to stay with you.
When Bear Bryant greeted his incoming freshman at the University of Alabama, he always delivered the same message first. It was written on a card he kept in his wallet and the coach referred to it often during their tenure there. Today, almost every man who plays...
It’s been said that suffering is guaranteed for anyone who takes on the arduous task of living – but have you ever considered how boring life would be if we had nothing with which to contrast joy? Would we even recognize it as joy? Part of the blessing of life’s...
You’ve no doubt heard the adage “Actions speak louder than words.” I like the way Ralph Waldo Emerson put it — “Your actions speak so loud, I can’t hear what you say.” Do you know someone whose only consistency is inconsistency? Worse, does that describe you? ...
Practicing a spirit of service invokes gratitude and empathy. It perpetuates kindness. Volunteering your time and skills pushes you outside yourself and plunges you into your community. Carrying a heart of service simultaneously and subconsciously acknowledges you...
You’ve probably heard the saying “Curiosity killed the cat”. And you’ve probably observed that cats are very curious creatures. They’ll fix their attention on something for an extended period of time, or just as easily pretend that something doesn’t exist, which in...
"Delayed gratification." Have you ever heard that phrase? If you have, it’s probably because you practice a few of the principles we’ve discussed before. You know, qualities like patience, effort, focus...Interesting how those three things could work in tandem to...
How do you eat an elephant? It is said that you do it… one bite at a time. But what if you have an elephant in front of you… and you just aren’t hungry for elephant? We all experience times when it’s hard to find motivation to do certain things. It’s even more...
Have you ever felt like not doing what you knew was the right thing to do? What’s the harm if there’s nobody around to see you? It’s not always easy or convenient to make the better choice. One’s character determines what we do even when no one is watching. Some...
Is it all you can do to drag yourself out of bed every morning? Are you irritable in situations where calm is the norm? What about stomach upsets or headaches? You might be tending toward burnout. Burnout is simply exhaustion that happens when you’ve been overwhelmed...