Never too late
August 31, 2009
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
- George Eliot
Cheerful
August 30, 2009
“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind,
and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.”
-Joseph Addison
Big Rocks!
August 26, 2009
Put in the Big Rocks First
One day an expert in time management was speaking to a group of business students and, to drive home a point, used an illustration those students will never forget. As he stood in front of the group of high powered overachievers he said, “Okay, time for a quiz.”
He pulled out a one-gallon, wide-mouthed Mason jar and set it on the table in front of him. Then he produced about a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully placed them, one at a time, into the jar. When the jar was filled to the top and no more rocks would fit inside, he asked, “Is this jar full?”
Everyone in the class said, “Yes.”
Then he said, “Really?” He reached under the table and pulled out a bucket of gravel. Then he dumped some gravel in and shook the jar causing pieces of gravel to work themselves down into the space between the big rocks. Then he asked the group once more, “Is the jar full?”
By this time the class was on to him. “Probably not,” one of them answered. “Good!” he replied.
He reached under the table and brought out a bucket of sand. He started dumping
the sand in the jar and it went into all of the spaces left between the rocks
and the gravel. Once more he asked the question, “Is this jar full?”
“No!” the class shouted.
Once again he said, “Good.” Then he grabbed a pitcher of water and began to pour it in until the jar was filled to the brim. Then he looked at the class and asked, “What is the point of this illustration?”
One eager beaver raised his hand and said, “The point is, no matter how full your
schedule is, if you try really hard you can always fit some more things in it!”
“No,” the speaker replied, “That’s not the point. The truth this illustration teaches
us is: If you don’t put the big rocks in first, you’ll never get them in at all.”
What are the ‘big rocks’ in your life? Your children; Your loved ones; Your education; Your dreams; A worthy cause; Teaching or mentoring others; Doing things that you love; Time for yourself; Your health; Your significant other?
Remember to put these BIG ROCKS in first or you’ll never get them in at all. If you
sweat the little stuff (the gravel, the sand) then you’ll fill your life with little
things you worry about that don’t really matter, and you’ll never have the real
quality time you need to spend on the big, important stuff (the big rocks).
So, tonight, or in the morning, when you are reflecting on this short story, ask
yourself this question: What are the ‘big rocks’ in my life? Then, put those in
your jar first.”
Feel free to pass this on to those you care about – I just did! 
Make changes
August 26, 2009
“If you don’t like something, change it.
If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
Don’t complain.”
- Maya Angelou
Blessings!
August 25, 2009
Count Your Blessings
Count your many blessings, name them one by one,
Count your many blessings, see what God has done!
–from “Count Your Blessings” by Johnson Oatman Jr.
This week I will be with my big sister to welcome Baby Noah into the world. As Oprah would say, his future is so bright it burns my eyes. I also found out this week my little brother and his wife are having a baby this winter. Two blessings, count them one, two. JMD
I am what I am
August 24, 2009
“I yam what I yam.”
- Popeye, the Sailor Man
Do your best
August 23, 2009
“You have to accept whatever comes and the
only important thing is that you meet it
with the best you have to give.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
September 26th
August 22, 2009
Society of Latino & Hispanic Writers
celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
Barnes & Noble Bookfair
San Pedro Crossing 321 NW Loop 410
(210) 342-0008
1 p.m.
Saturday Sept. 26th
The following authors will discuss and sign copies of their work:
Gil Dominguez, Carlos Flores, Barbara Renaud Gonzalez, Bertha Jacobson, Diana Lopez, Josie Mixon, Roxanna Montes-Bazaldua, James Muñoz, & Jim Stewart
Truth
August 22, 2009
“Some of your griefs you have cured
And the sharpest you still have survived ~
But what torments of pain you endured
From evils that never arrived.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God’s will
August 21, 2009
Anything forced into manifestation through personal will is always “ill got” and has “ever bad success.”
- Florence Scovel Shinn
God’s will, Nothing more, Nothing less, Nothing else.
