August 2016 – CainEllsworth

More Attitude

August 29, 2016

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” – Maya Angelou Last week in this space the topic was our beliefs and attitude and how those drive our behavior and, effectively, the outcomes in our businesses and personal lives. Apparently I didn’t get it all out … Read more

What to Change First?

August 22, 2016

“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.” – Katherine Mansfield We’ve talked in this space before about beliefs and attitude, about how your beliefs about whatever situation you’re confronted with dictate your behavior in that situation, which leads to a predictable result. … Read more

Is It Worth It?

August 15, 2016

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt The past few posts in this space (here and here) have spent some time on the idea of priorities and making sure we’re focused on stuff that’s really important. Our time and energy … Read more

The Critical Few

August 8, 2016

“The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.” – George Bernard Shaw Whether you’re talking about honor or your business, it’s extremely easy in today’s world to let yourself get stretched thin. There are so many things flying at us that if we … Read more

Finding Your Way

August 1, 2016

“As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.” – Rumi The world is full of business leaders who feel completely overwhelmed. They have almost literally a hundred things to do every day, and that doesn’t count the things that will come up that are completely unexpected. A lot of them started … Read more

Month: August 2016

More Attitude

What to Change First?

Is It Worth It?

The Critical Few

Finding Your Way

It's time to go "Beyond the Numbers".