Sterling Terrell

recovering economist

Doomsday Approaching

Doomsday Approaching

With doomsday approaching – or possibly approaching – in your life, maybe this post is just what you need to see right now.

Maybe a crisis is on its way.

Or, maybe, fate is pointing you a different direction all together.

Good-grief, I hope you got to step 5!

But we got this.

If anything, we should use this adversity (whatever it is for you) as an opportunity to re-prioritize what we truly want out of this short life.

Understand: Fate decides our future.

I started looking for ways to set up personal behaviors that I would never want to manifest (rewarding a jerk with my hard-earned money being one of them) in order to drive me to do things that were difficult (finishing a draft of my book). It’s amazing how quickly your mind clears with a doomsday approaching.

-Tim Grahl, Running Down A Dream

Focus At Work

Focus At Work

If you are trying to get somewhere or acomplish something, having an intense focus at work might get you further than you think it will.

But this focus is just so blasted hard to sustain sometimes. Isn’t it?

You start all excited about something, and one day realize that what you started might be a bit harder than you thought.

For most people, it becomes too hard to continue.

If you had any idea how many times I have considered starting a “new and fun” website…

But take heart, P.T. Barnum agreed: Just pick one thing and stick with it until it takes.

For a constant attack might can accomplish just about anything, if you are willing to work at it.

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he forms a good plan, and then makes the execution of that plan his sole study and business.

-Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Sterling Terrell