a daily blog on well-being and how to feel better by Mark Barger Elliott…

“If I look back, my greatest frustrations are probably… that I have, far too often, made the urgent rather than the important my priority and that as a result, some of the books I should have written I haven’t written.” Noted business auther Peter Drucker wrote those words. His point is it’s advantageous to discern…

“Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued… in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it.” This is Victor Frankl’s observation from…

There is a fun and insightful instagram page called Visualize Value that depicts creative ideas and wisdom in simple and engaging ways. This morning it reminded me that any project we begin doesn’t start with something great or perfect, but likely with something terrible. We then progress and improve from there – the terrible. If…

Steve Aoki is a Grammy-nominated DJ and record producer who launched his record label with $400. He began this daunting task inspired by Malcolm X’s charge that sometimes to achieve a big goal we have to appropriate a mindset of, “by any means necessary.” This phrase reminds us it’s important to define the “means” we…

I came across the idea, “Know before you go.” Which is one way to approach life. The other I realized is, “Go before you know.” Likely you gravitate to one concept or the other. You only decide to go or to do something after you know about it. Or, you are comfortable going or doing…

We often study our scars or pick at scabs. Wounds leave their marks. I came across an intriguing observation yesterday that noted we have no “scar” for happiness. In other words, it’s worth considering what marks in our lives do we have for joy, peace, or happiness? Perhaps the simplest answer is a memory. But…