Entries Tagged as 'quotes and illustrations'

Do you have a personal plan for growth?

February 8th, 2010 · 39 Comments

On Twitter and Facebook on Sunday, I quoted my friend Paul Meyer, mentioning that he was the person who helped me create my first personal growth plan. In the hours afterward, I received dozens of requests, all asking the same thing: “How do you create a personal growth plan?”
The answer to that takes more than [...]

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Tags: Twitter & Social Media · personal growth · quotes and illustrations · success

On success and stupidity – TAKE TWO

January 28th, 2010 · 49 Comments

We are all failures – at least, all the best of us are.
~James Barrie, author of Peter Pan
This is one of the many thoughts and quotes that I’ve been posting on Twitter this week on the subject of failure. Some others:
There are many ways to be a winner, but only one way to be a loser:
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Tags: Failing Forward · mistakes · personal · quotes and illustrations · success

File under F for Filing

April 2nd, 2009 · 39 Comments

A few posts ago, I described how I jump-start my creativity with quotes and articles from others. I wrote that whenever I need to prepare a new book, lesson, article, or sermon, the first thing I do is pull all of my files on the topic. I’ve spoken and written about this a lot. But [...]

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Tags: quotes and illustrations