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Bring Out the Magic in Your Mind. It was written almost thirty years ago by a man named Al Koran,
“The hand that gives is the hand that gathers.”
The real secret to getting things done is knowing what things need to be left undone.
“The person who chases two rabbits catches neither,”
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
The things that are easy to do are also the things that are easy not to do.
deep-seated
According to U.S. News & World Report, over the course of your lifetime, you will spend eight months opening junk mail, two years unsuccessfully returning phone calls and five years standing in line. Given this startling fact, one of the simplest yet smartest time management strategies you can follow is to never go anywhere without a book under your arm.
“So long as you live, keep learning how to live,” noted the Roman philosopher Seneca.
ideas are the commodity of success.
salutary
perchance
How high you will rise in your life will be determined not by how hard you work but by how well you think.
Aristotle, Emerson, Seneca, Gandhi, Thoreau, Dorothea Brande,
As Emerson said so eloquently, “Without the rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.” Or as Tolstoy wrote, “The means to gain happiness is to throw out for oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in all that comes.”
“Just to make sure I understand you, are you saying … ?”
“A problem well stated is a problem half solved,” said Charles Kettering.
The mind is a strange creature in this regard: the things you want it to remember it forgets, but all those things you want it to forget, it remembers.
fester
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it,” observed David Starr Jordan.
paths are made by walking, not waiting.
Thomas Carlyle, “The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest.” The smallest of actions is always better than the boldest of intentions.
if you don’t act on life, life has a habit of acting on you. The weeks slip into months, the months slip into years
The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, observed, “The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.”
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life’s Greatest Lesson.
Tuesdays with Morrie
Paul Bowles
The problem with losing your temper on a daily basis is that it becomes a habit.
“Three Gate Test.”
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and help them become what they are capable of being,” said the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
“Every arrow that hits the bull’s eye is the result of one hundred misses.”
The Aladdin Factor,
Fast Company. It provides a refreshingly human look at the new world of work.
“The job of leadership today is not just to make money, it’s to make meaning.”
Maxwell Maltz’s classic Psycho-Cybernetics
Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic,
great philosophers, such as Epictetus and Confucius.
wisest poets, such as Alfred Lord Tennyson, Emily Dickinson and John Keats,
Leo Tolstoy, Hermann Hesse and ...
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Norman Cousins once noted that “The Tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live.”
Ashley Montagu wrote that “The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.”
Are you using the best within you to its fullest capacity? If not, you are not only doing yourself a disservice, you are doing the world, and all those within it who could benefit from your unique talents, a disservice.
Swiss designer George de Mestral developed Velcro after examining the burdock burrs that clung to his dog while he hiked in the mountains.
transform their driving time into learning time and make their automobiles moving universities.
“something magical happens when you write down your goals on paper.”
As novelist Saul Bellow once observed, “A clear plan relieves you of the torment of choice.”
Glenn Bland wrote, “Goals and plans take the worry out of living.”
As human beings, we are genetically programmed to resist change and maintain a state of equilibrium. The condition, known as homeostasis,
