“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” -Helen Keller If you don’t know much about Helen Keller, do a quick Wikipedia search on her and read up, she’s truly an inspiration. For someone like her to grab onto life and refuse to allow her circumstances to dictate how [...]
“Choice, not circumstances, determines your success.” -Author Unknown Consider there are multiple realities, alternate universes if you will. In addition to that, consider that we can drift in and out of each one from moment to moment depending on the choices that we make. We may stay [...]
“A great man is always willing to be little.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson Consider these notions: Those who are great want to be amongst the people, those who are not want to be above them. Those who are great understand that no matter how much knowledge they have accumulated, there’s an infinite amount still to learn. [...]
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” -T.S. Eliot Are you the risk-averse or the risk-inviting type? Neither is good or bad, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages. Each carries its own pitfalls and opportunities, and each can move you forward in life. [...]
“Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.” –Theodore N. Vail I’m going to be bold enough to state that in any given person’s lifetime, (s)he will have 100 times more imaginary difficulties than real ones. What do you think? If we go through a typical week and imagine [...]
“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” – Dalai Lama Dictionary.com’s definition of Religion: Re-li-gion (noun) A set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a super human agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral [...]
“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.” -James Thurber This is the essence of living in the present moment. The past has gone, the future has not yet arrived, but the present will always be here. You can create something out of nothing when you “look around [...]
“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” -William Feather This is never more apparent than right now in this economy. Some say this is the worst depression that businesses in America have ever seen. We’ve all witnessed buildings in our towns closing down and boarding up their [...]
“They conquer who believe they can.” -Virgil (Roman Poet) What does this quote mean to you? At first glance I thought this quote was about being confident that one can accomplish anything they put their mind to. And that may still be what Virgil meant. But when I changed my perspective, I got something [...]
“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.” -Thomas Jefferson We all tend to think our ideas are brilliant, but that really doesn’t matter unless we’re creating something solely for own enjoyment (meaning an idea that is not to be shared with others). Businesses, however, are about the customers, books about the readers, [...]
