Continuing deeper into the vault, I look through the themes of happiness and purpose.

I feel a bit behind the times with this, but the information is still valuable to me, even if it is decades old. I recently read about Covey’s concept of a Time Management Matrix, in which tasks/goals are placed into four quadrants based on importance and urgency (see...

As we continue this Quote Vault series, we explore the theme of challenges and growth. 

Supercharge Your Thinking 

I believe I have already mentioned this, but Brian Tracy’s Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life is full of amazing tidbits of advice.  One of the things he talks about in Chapter 1o: Supercharge Your Thinking is becoming an inverse paranoid - “A...

Similar to the Word Treasure series I wrote a few weeks ago, in which I shared my list of unknown (to me) words that I come across while reading, I am going to share a short series of quotes that I have kept track of over the years. These are quotes that I have found to be...

The Timeless Wisdom of Brian Tracy

I will start by saying that I am well aware that the book Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life by Brian Tracy is old. However, it is amazing, and everyone should read it. And I mean, go out and find a copy of it now and read it.

The last Book Brew post discussed beginning with the end in mind and mentioned how we can fall victim to “climbing the ladder of success only to discover it’s leaning against the wrong wall.” Another piece of this is falling into what Covey calls the “Activity Trap.” He...

The idea seems paradoxical to start at the end, but it is a recommendation I keep seeing over and over again—so it's kinda hard not to listen to it.

I like to play games. Games were a huge part of my childhood—whether they were board games (Clue was one of my favorites!) or card games (huge Canasta fan), in our house, we played a lot of games. Gonna date myself a bit here, but once computer games became a thing, I...

“We didn’t measure!!  We didn’t measure!!” - Cleveland Brown, Jr.

“You want me to do TWO things!?!” - Bender

The proverb “measure twice, cut once” is very well known since it has been around for centuries. (Funny story here: I just learned the difference between an adage...