Penny Wise

Anglers know that it’s important to fish close to the bottom of the lake, because that’s where the fish are, even though we get snagged on rocks, branches and logs. That same idea relates to workplace relationships, productivity, profitability, peace and harmony.

I think everyone wants to be more attractive—in other words, to attract more of what we want. Perhaps it’s a partner; maybe it’s the desire to attract more wealth, opportunity, success, love, or respect.

I know you’re busy so I’m going to get to the point: we use the excuse or story that we’re ‘too busy’ too often.

I believe that discipline is the most lacked skill in over 80% of entrepreneurs. What holds people back from their potential is not knowledge or competition or the marketplace conditions, rather, our inability to say ‘NO’ to the things that distract us from the most profitable tasks, and the reverse … our unwillingness to say ‘YES’ to the activities that provide the results we’re seeking.

You can’t always mend a broken relationship, but there’s no such thing as a failed one if you learn the lessons from the tumultuous times. Find your lessons. Whether its workplace or business relationships, family or friends, cherish what you have and when sweet relationships go sour, take the high road, know what’s yours and have faith.

We don’t become rich by dreaming and planning. We become rich by putting our dreams and plans in to action. We expand with the experiences of trying and trying again, fine tuning and being wide open to receiving all that comes, distilling the ideas and ways to spend our time down to what works, and where to focus.

Having coffee with an influential woman in my life the other day had some food for thought tossed on the table. She said that people see me as ‘near perfect’, and that it could possibly hold them back from connecting. I was surprised to hear this feedback, because I have a messy life, but it wasn’t the first time I’d heard it.

A reboot for ourselves—like our technology—is needed more often than we think, because we have so much going on in our minds. If we want to regenerate our ways of being, we need to escape the busy-ness and find our stillness. You might be saying “I already know that”, but do you do it?

Love is the glue that bonds teams together, and clients to businesses. Love is also priceless—it does not have to cost a cent. The currency of love is our heart energy. We all have it, and can tap into it if we open up.

Commitment is not a feeling. It's a decision! It's continuing to do what you’ve said you’d do, 
long after the feeling you had when you made the commitment has gone.