If you took some time to relax between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, good for you! Now you’re back in the thick of it. With urgency on more things than any one person should have to deal with. Oh, there’s this goal you dreamt up in December while you were chilling out – oh, forget that now! It’s never going to happen. No time to deal with that. Really? Just like that you’re going to toss it in? Give up before you even start? B.S. to that idea! If this dream, this goal, was … [Read more...]
How Determined Are You?
When you have a specific project to complete – do you dive right in and figure out what is needed and start the process – or do you check the deadline first and that drives your answer of when to start? Or, in your own business, you know you need to make some personnel changes, hiring some new people and letting some others go. Do you take action as soon as these decisions are clear or do you wait hoping something will change? These are for example purposes, however, the question about … [Read more...]
How Much Do You Want Your Dream To Come True?
If you read the recent article on attitude you know how important your attitude is. How much do you want your dream to come true? Do you have this attitude – Not to be denied! As in – “I will not be denied!” The reality is one fact from the Covid-19 virus is that more entrepreneurs started a business from home or multiple ones than ever before. How many will make it? Don’t know…I’m here to help. Here is another fact – the attitude needed to carry you through the rough patches, the … [Read more...]
What Will You Do in the Next 77 Days?
Every person out at sea count the days... Days until they return… Days they will be onboard… Days until the next port… “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” Rumi Meanwhile back at home there is family and friends missing their presence too. Here are a few thoughts for the family and the seaman to think about in their loneliness… We chose this. We live this. We can do this. When I’m with you, hours feel like seconds…when we’re are apart, days feel like … [Read more...]
Mark Off The Date With A Big X
A favorite and consistent habit of every person working aboard an ocean going merchant ship is marking off each day on the calendar. A big X signifies another day done and dusted. Sometimes the calendar is a large one on the bulkhead (that’s the wall you land lubbers!) and for others a smaller calendar on the writing desk or by their bunk. It’s a combination of seeing the days gone by and looking ahead to the days when it’s time to leave the ship and go home again. Other than a few words … [Read more...]
What Do You Value More – Physical Attributes or Mental Toughness?
"Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them―a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." – Muhammad Ali Simon Sinek asks us to “Start With Why”. Why does he ask us this question? It’s so we think about and come to grips with this – define our why? Define our desire, our dream, our vision. It’s what Muhammad Ali is saying to us. Yet, even with Covid and lock downs, have … [Read more...]
