“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the staircase”
Martin Luther King Jr.
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In other words, start and see what will happen…but do something now.
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November 28, 2010
Faith…
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November 25, 2010
American Thanksgiving
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“Instead of concerning ourselves with what will come tomorrow, we should be thankful for what we have today, which is good health for most of us, a roof over our heads, food to fill our stomachs and free time to enjoy with our family and friends. This does not mean that we should not plan for tomorrow. It just means that we should not let it control us to the point where it takes us away from what we are able to do today.”
Stephen Lafond
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November 25, 2010
Pat Burns n’a pas perdu son combat…
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C’est le titre de bien des journaux et de nombreux sites internet: Pat Burns a perdu son combat contre le cancer.
Et ça m’agace.
Pat Burns n’a pas perdu. Il est allé au bout de sa vie. Comme nous irons tous. Vrai, il a du se battre pour vivre au cours des dernières années, mais sa mort n’est pas une défaite. C’est juste que la cloche a sonné. Comme elle sonnera pour nous tous. Et si l’arbitre en haut a un bras à lever, ce sera sûrement celui de Pat Burns. C’est lui, le champion. Pas le cancer.
Et c’est ainsi pour Pat, comme pour tous les autres affligés par le crabe maudit. Ils ne perdent pas leur dernier combat. Le combat se termine. Point.
Non, la mort n’est pas une défaite. La mort est un fil d’arrivée.
Pat est arrivé. Et il peut être fier du chemin parcouru.
Savoure ta plus belle victoire, Pat: l’amour que tu as transmis à ceux qui te pleurent aujourd’hui.
Source, LaPresse, Stéphane Laporte. 20 novembre 2010
November 24, 2010
Who was your favorite teacher?
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“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils”
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) French composer
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Time is a great teacher when we dare to make mistakes.
Time is a greater and more effective teacher when we accept to learn from our mistakes.
Time is the greatest and wisest teacher when we learn from the mistakes of others and avoid to make them ourselves.
Time will eventually kill all of us, and since we don’t know when, one of the most important lessons Time can teach us is: To live each day to the fullest..
What did Time teach you recently?
What would you do differently if you learned that you had 3 months left to live?
Oh really!
Why wait?
November 17, 2010
What are you postponing?
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“Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.”
Henry Miller
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When I can drive a car…
When I get my degree…
When I find Mister Right or Miss Perfect…
When I have kids…
When I have a better job or salary…
When the kids leave home…
When I retire…
When… fill your own excuse here ______________________
When… when…when will you stop making excusessss?
November 14, 2010
Are you in motion?
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“Chance favors those in motion”
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I believe this is so true… Do something, go somewhere, meet new and different people, work on a project, learn something new and move it, move it.
Did you move it recently?
Whatever you think you should be moving…
November 12, 2010
Though it’s not impossible to hate what you do and be good at it, it’s rare. Not to mention, it’s not much of a life (which if I may remind you, is short) .
A small majority of my friends have reached this state. Some rich, some poor, they are without question the luckiest people I know.
Hugh MacLeod
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November 7, 2010
An Irish blessing…about life and time.
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May love and laughter light your days, and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours, wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world with joy that long endures.
May all life’s passing seasons bring the best to you and yours.
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November 6, 2010
Good news or Bad news?
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“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot”
Michael Altshuler
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A lot of people talk about time management. There is no such thing as time management. We cannot manage time. We can only manage ourselves.Time manages itself very well without us.
We should talk about life management in relation with the time that is given to each one of us. This starts with checking on our priorities.
Did you clarify your priorities recently?
November 5, 2010
It’s time for action!
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“Time to live with your priorities in mind and stop wishing things were different.”
“It’s time to start living and stop waiting”
Stephen Lafond
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Will you take time to live this coming week-end?
Will you take time to do something for yourself?
Will you take time to do something for someone else?
It’s time for action!
P.S. Sometimes relaxation is the right thing to do…
November 4, 2010
I think laziness has changed.
It used to be about avoiding physical labor. The lazy person could nap or have a cup of tea while others got hot and sweaty and exhausted. Part of the reason society frowns on the lazy is that this behavior means more work for the rest of us.
When it came time to carry the canoe over the portage, I was always hard to find. The effort and the pain gave me two good reasons to be lazy.
But the new laziness has nothing to do with physical labor and everything to do with fear. If you’re not going to make those sales calls or invent that innovation or push that insight, you’re not avoiding it because you need physical rest. You’re hiding out because you’re afraid of expending emotional labor.
This is great news, because it’s much easier to become brave about extending yourself than it is to become strong enough to haul an eighty pound canoe.
November 1, 2010
An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.
To be enterprising is to keep your eyes open and your mind active. It’s to be skilled enough, confident enough, creative enough and disciplined enough to seize opportunities that present themselves… regardless of the economy.
Are you an enterprising person?
October 30, 2010
Away from the hustle and bustle of society.
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“Let today be a day to spend time alone in nature, if possible. Take a walk as far from the hustle and bustle as you can. Take off your shoes and walk barefoot in the grass to reconnect with nature.”
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October 29, 2010
Is your time on the Web invested or wasted?
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Did you ever add up the time you spend browsing the net, going on Facebook, Youtube and Linkedin?
According to recent surveys, more than 500 million people spend 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook. 700 billion minutes…
The Internet can save us a lot of time when we search for something useful for our job or for school. We can also pay our bills, do our banking online and do a lot of other useful tasks. There are lots of benefits of using the web but we must discipline ourselves to use our time wisely. It is tempting to go on the Internet and spend an hour to look at random stuff. We must check our habits and set boundaries to avoid wasting precious time.
We all have 168 hours every week. How many of these hours do you invest or waste on the Web?
October 28, 2010
Donna Karan (DKNY)
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Donna Karan had planned to be a stay-at-home mom, but when her boss and mentor, Anne Klein, passed away, Donna stepped up and created a line just days after her daughter was born. And guess what? It has been a huge success…
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“You’ve gotta to live in the moment, be prepared for anything at any time in your life”
Founder DKNY
October 27, 2010
Stop hitting the snooze button of your life
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Life is similar to lying in bed; it’s easier to hit snooze and delay what you must do.
Whenever you get that hit-the-snooze feeling, try do go against your natural response, try to get out of your comfort zone. Sometimes it is as hard to do what we must do as it is to get out of bed in the morning.
No more delay. No more hesitation. Stand up and start your life.
Are you ready?
October 26, 2010
Are you an actor or a spectator?
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“Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, … you’re wasting your life.”
Jackie Robinson
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Do you prefer to watch “So You Think You Can Dance” or take dancing lessons with your partner?
Do you prefer to watch ” Property Virgins” or to invest your time taking care of your own property?
Do you prefer to watch a “NHL game” or to go play hockey with your friends?
Do you prefer to live your life or watch other people live their own?
Personally I prefer the acting part…because life is in the living.
What do you prefer?
October 25, 2010
Do you dare to think differently than your friends?
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“To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.”
Theodore H. White
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This is risky business! But when we are convinced that our ideas are the right ones, we must fight for them. Just think of Galileo, Martin Luther, Gandhi, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King…
October 24, 2010
A double dose of Mother Teresa
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“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
Mother Teresa
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When we jugde people, we waste our time and we hurt other people’s feelings. I have never seen any good coming out of it when I found myself guilty of judging others. I have never seen any good when I witness others judging others.
So my question to you is; why do we keep falling in this trap?
October 22, 2010
Two problems with whining
The first is that it doesn’t work. You can whine about the government or your friends or your job or your family, but nothing will happen except that you’ll waste time.
Worse… far worse… is that whining is a reverse placebo. When you get good at whining, you start noticing evidence that makes your whining more true. So you amplify that and immerse yourself in it, thus creating more evidence, more stuff worth complaining about.
If you spent the same time prattling on about how optimistic you are, you’d have to work hard to make that true…
October 20, 2010
Do you know who you are?
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“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.”
Kofi Annan
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It’s not always easy to choose because we must take responsibility for our choices. In my opinion, when we choose for ourselves, we increase our own personal freedom and we cannot blame others for what happens or what doesn’t happen to us.
Another difficulty with choosing is that when we say YES to one thing, we are saying NO to another thing because our time and space are limited.
October 19, 2010
Old age.
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“Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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This is exactly the way I always felt…but didn’t find a way to express it…in a polite way.
Well said Oliver!
October 18, 2010
Do you remember Forrest Gump?
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“My Mama always said you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on.”
From the movie Forrest Gump
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October 16, 2010
Beauty of the dream
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“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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The beauty of the dream is what keeps us going when the going gets tough. In the face of many obstacles, it is what gives us the strength and what tests our resolution to persevere all the way until the end.
October 14, 2010
Confucius said…
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“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Confucius
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We are so good at making life complicated. Don’t you find it amazing that we can send people on the moon and bring them back and yet, so many of us have a hard dealing with their day to day lives?
October 13, 2010
Attitude of thankfulness
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The more we practice being thankful, the more we experience the feeling of gratitude and thankfulness.
The action precedes the feeling.
Stephen Lafond
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October 12, 2010
Helen Keller
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“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
Helen Keller
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Helen Keller was not born blind and deaf; it was not until she was 19 months old that she contracted an illness described by doctors as “an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain”, which might have been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness did not last for a particularly long time, but it left her deaf and blind.
For the rest of her life, she has learned many lessons even with what most of us would consider severe handicaps.
October 9, 2010
Thanksgiving
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“Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends”
Courtland Milloy
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October 7, 2010
Dare to dream the impossible.
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“All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim and have fixed their gaze on a goal that is high; one that sometimes seems impossible.”
Orison Swett Marden
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The chinese people have a proverb that goes like this;
“A journey of a 1000 miles begins with a first step”
There is a lot of controversy about this confucean proverb but it really doesn’t matter because the principle remains the same.
We have to actually start doing something to get somewhere. I believe that when we start something and persevere, there is a conspiracy in the universe to make us succeed. I can’t explain it ,I can’t prove it , I only witness it over and over again in the lives of many people for whom the odds were against them.
Sometimes we just need a kick in the right place to get started, and keep persevering when the obstacles will appear in our way.
36525 days to live 