Building on our willingness, rationality, efforts, intentions and ideas, we can effectively act. An intention and an idea bear fruit only when they are carried into action. For the committed person, ... Read More about Executing – Keeping Commitments
Great accomplishments begin with ideas, and visions of how things might be. Everything begins with an idea. [Earl Nightingale] And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was ... Read More about Conceiving – Having Ideas
Forming intention and making commitments cuts across the domains of emotion and thinking. Once we act on our commitments, we are in the domain of action. Every purposeful action begins with an ... Read More about Forming Intention – Making Commitments
In the domain of acting, the first thing we must do is to make an effort – to try. This is a necessary predicate to higher levels of function such as being responsible, reliable and innovative. . . ... Read More about Trying – Making an Effort
Intellectually, before we can be reasonable, we must be rational. Rationality is a predicate to reason, which is the level-two intellectual virtue in our relations to the material world. It is ... Read More about Being Rational
In the emotions, the first step toward accomplishing anything is being willing. This is far more basic than being eager or enthusiastic. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the ... Read More about Being Willing
Now we explore level one of development in our relations to the physical world. The first thing we must do is engage the world, at a basic level – get out of bed if that is the issue. In the sweat of ... Read More about Engaging the World