Lead your charge!

I’ll be the first to admit, I’m no life coach. More than anything, I’ve simply followed my passions and lived my life accordingly. What’s the recipe for success?   …I really have no idea?  From what I have observed in those who are successful (“success” being defined as living up to one’s full potential) is that they have a few underlying principles in common:

Find Your Beat – No matter what your definition is of success, if you are not happy doing what you do all else seems immaterial. Follow your passions. Do what you love. There is no higher calling. As Thoreau famously put it: “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears the beat of a different drummer.” Find your beat and dance to it.  And dance with reckless abandon!

Focus – My grandmother once told me, “You can have anything you want, you just can’t have everything...