Will to win
May 21, 2009
“If you have the will to win, you have
achieved half of your success.”
- Unknown
“Always give hundred percent, and you’ll
never have to second-guess yourself.”
- Unknown
June 4th
May 20, 2009
Real work
May 20, 2009
“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”
- Thomas Alva Edison
1440
May 19, 2009
“Imagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 – with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440 you failed to use during the day would be erased from your account, and no balance would be carried over. What would you do? You’d draw out every cent every day and use it to your best advantage. Well, you do have such a bank, and its name is time. Every morning, this bank credits you with 1,440 minutes. And it writes off as forever lost whatever portion you have failed to invest to good purpose.”
- Ann Landers
Challenge
May 18, 2009
“How do you want to be in the world today? The power of this one question has the ability to open up our sense of authenticity and invite us to be more honest with others and ourselves. By asking this question a space opens where there can be conscious choice rather than just a reliance on old habits and ways of being. It is easy to blame and excuse behaviors because “that’s just the way I am” but it is much more challenging to be accountable for each choice we make and the affect it has on the world around us. So as you wake up in the morning ask yourself “How do I want to be in the world today?” and as you go to bed at night ask yourself “Did I live in integrity to my intention from this morning?” This exercise can be challenging but eye opening as well as it opens us up to a commitment to personal integrity.”
- John Sovec, The Life Group LA
Moments
May 17, 2009
“Life isn’t a matter of milestones but of moments.”
- Unknown
Boldness
May 16, 2009
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Geothe, Philosopher
Bounce
May 15, 2009
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
- George S. Patton
Win/Win
May 14, 2009
“The Law of Win/Win says, “Let’s not do it your way
or my way; let’s do it the best way.”
- Greg Anderson
Goodness
May 13, 2009
“Above all, let us never forget that an
act of goodness is in itself an act of
happiness.”
- Count Maurice Maeterlinck
A few days ago I saw a man in a wheelchair carrying a small dog. The dog was wearing the coolest looking sunglasses. I guess it made me smile! We were inside a county building, and I wondered if the dog was a therapy dog. JMD
