What do you want to accomplish?

New and early users of E+R=O get sucked into the gravitational pull of event fixation. Because the equation is EVENT + RESPONSE = OUTCOME, most people naturally think from left to right, beginning with the event."When I experience [ABC or XYX] event, I will try to respond better."

Within you resides the most powerful engine in the known universe. It can think, feel, and reason. It can imagine, invent, and intuit. It is equally capable of believing without seeing as it is seeing without believing.

Discussions about goals focus more on how to pursue goals than on what goals to pursue. I told you last week to take the next shot and charge the next summit. It got me thinking.

Three Observations:

If you want to succeed, you must fight your way through failure. I do not have access to a special failure-free path. I do not offer solutions that prevent all failures. Even if I did, I would not give them to you. Failure is too instrumental, too necessary to your growth, development, and journey....

On Monday night, Ohio State and Notre Dame played for the college football national championship in Atlanta. Each team earned their way to the title game by winning three playoff games in the first 12-team playoff at the FBS level of college football.

The dark cloud of pessimism wants to convince you that you are stuck in a relentless storm where outcomes are predetermined, and effort is pointless. Pessimism lets emotion masquerade as logic.

I found myself thinking about destiny last week. Not my own destiny but destiny itself. Is destiny real and worth paying attention to? It is real and deserves your attention, but people misinterpret what it is and how it works.

It’s not the experience of conflict that shapes your life but how you resolve it. Not all conflict is created equal, though. Some matter more than others. Here are four camouflaged conflicts that shape your life.