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July 7, 2010

Live a long life or die young?

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“Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse.”

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I don’t know who wrote this, but he or she probably had some hedonistic tendancies or a good sense of humor.

It brings to my mind the following questions;

It is better to live a very long  life and experience illness, old age and slowly losing  most of our physical and mental capacities or is it better to live fully and die younger before we experience all these inconvenients?

I don’t know, what are the pros and cons?

What do you think?

Which one would you prefer?

 

July 5, 2010

What is life?

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A good friend of mine wrote this little note after one of his good friends passed away;

What is life?

“Sometimes life goes by too fast for anyone to see what is really going on around them.Why do we always wait for someone we love to leave this world for everyone around them to realize how little time we have? We have to see the sadness in the people we love before asking ourselves the same question over and over. What else am I going to miss in life before I decide to slow down?”

Ritz Pesce

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Why, why, why???

 

July 5, 2010

Coco Chanel

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“There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.” 

Coco Chanel

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After she lost the love of life ( Arthur “Boy” Capel), all was left to Coco Chanel was time for the other passion in her life; her work. This is where she put her time and look at the results that she produced. Concentrated efforts can sometimes give impressive results.

Many times when you like what you do for a living, work becomes play, and play becomes productive and both of them together can be very enjoyable.

What do you do to have fun at work and still be productive?

 

July 4, 2010

Stuck in the past? Worried about the future?

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We can learn from past failures and mistakes, but we shouldn’t get stuck there. We can keep future goals in mind, but we shouldn’t get stuck there either. One of the best ways to improve our circumstances and our quality of life is to focus on what we must do right now, at this very moment.

Stephen Lafond

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July 3, 2010

Did Mark Twain inspire the author of Benjamin Button?

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“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”

Mark Twain

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July 2, 2010

Life is like a hot bath!

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“Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you’re in it, but the longer you stay in, the more wrinkled you get.”

Robbert Oustin
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July 1, 2010

Do you sometimes feel under attack?

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“I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.”

Ashleigh Brilliant

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June 30, 2010

Is your life about to begin?

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“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.”

 Alfred D’Souza.

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June 28, 2010

What do we want most? It may not be what you think…

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“Time is what we want most, but… what we use worst.”

William Penn

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June 27, 2010

The butterfly

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“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”

Rabindranath Tagore

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June 25, 2010

It’s Normal to Have Mood Swings!

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“Time cools; time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.”

Thomas Mann

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Good news, bad news, good mood, bad mood, joy, disappointments, new and exciting projects, boring routine, sunny day, rainy day, entertainment, lazy sunday afternoon…

This is what life is made of and each one of us must make the best of it.

One of the best lines I have ever read is from Anthony Di Mello who said: I AM NOT my depression.

He meant that we all have bad days but we can choose to watch our bad mood as a spectator would watch a movie, we don’t have to identify with it, we can simply become the observer of our mood.

Remember that it is not what happens to us but how we react to what happens to us that matters.

Do you spend too much time worrying about your mood swings?

Do you accept that you can have a bad day and just witness yourself having a bad day?

 

 

 

June 23, 2010

What Do We All Receive Equally Every Day?

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“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein.”
 
— Jackson Brown Jr., writer
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June 21, 2010

The future

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“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”

C.S.Lewis

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June 19, 2010

Equal opportunity employer

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“Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.”

Denis Waitley

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June 18, 2010

Making the most of the time we have.

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“Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.”

Josh Billings

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When I was 5 years old, I couldn’t care less about time.

When I was 15 years old, it seemed to me that everything was always taking too long to happen.

When I was 25 years old, it seemed like I was always so busy and running out of time.

When I was 35 years old, with a wife and children, a business to run, and bills to pay, I really had less and less time.

Now at almost 45 years old, I know that we never have enough time to do everything but we always have time to do the most important.

The more pressure we have with time, the more productive we seem to become.

Are you making the most of the time you have?

 

June 16, 2010

Forget your past mistakes.

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“Forget the mistakes and the disappointments of the past. It has nothing to do with your future. “

Stephen Lafond

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Everyday is a new day.

 

June 15, 2010

Instant or delayed gratification?

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“There are very few men – and they are the exceptions – who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment”.
 
 Carl Von Clausewitz 1780-1831
 
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One of the most difficult things to practice in our lives is to delay gratification and to take a long term perspective with our projects. Our consumer society doesn’t help us when it encourages us to BUY NOW and PAY LATER. Many times, we buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people who don’t care. We should always try to make the difference between an expense and an investment. We should try to avoid instant gratification. It’s a big challenge because it goes against every major trend in our society.
 
It applies to other areas in our lives as well;
 
The Olympic athlete has to make a lot of sacrifices to reach his/her goal. The medical student has to concentrate on his/her classes in order to get the diploma. The investor has to learn patience if he or she wants to earn dividends.
 
It is difficult because we should enjoy every day like if it is the last and at the same time invest our efforts and our resources for the future. The challenge for us is to find the balance between these two concepts.
 
Do you have the right balance between your daily activities and your long term projects?
 
 

June 14, 2010

Perseverance takes time.

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“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”

— Julie Andrews, actress

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Why do we give up on some of our projects? Because it’s too hard. It takes too much time. We don’t have the patience.

The irony is that when we keep persevering, we usually save time in the long run.

 

June 13, 2010

Sweat and Struggle

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“Don’t feel entitled to anything you don’t sweat and struggle for”

Marian Wright Edelman (1939- )

American activist and founder of the Children’s Defence Fund

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Did you ever hear the saying “Easy come, easy go”? There seems to be an unwritten law in nature that takes away what we don’t deserve or what we didn’t work hard enough for. There is no way to prove it, but we can witness it over and over again in the form of people winning the lottery and spending everything very quickly, or children who inherit from rich parents without having to work for their money. Another variaton of this is when people have such an easy life that they are unable to cope when disaster strikes.

Do you often try to take some shortcut in order to get what you want?

 

June 12, 2010

Advice from Napoleon

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“Space we can recover, time never”.
 

Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821.
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I guess Napoleon was right about this advice because the space he tried to conquer is still around, but he is no longer among us.

 

 

June 11, 2010

Don’t be afraid to admit you were wrong?

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“Don’t ever be afraid to admit you were wrong. It’s like saying you’re wiser today than you were yesterday.”

— Robert Newell, humorist

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It takes a lot of humility to admit when we are wrong. I hate to admit when I’m wrong, but I like the idea that I am getting wiser.

The sooner we admit our faults, the more life experience and wisdom we acquire. It saves a lot of time and useless suffering.

Which one will win?

Pride or Wisdom?

 

June 10, 2010

The speed of life

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“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”

Gandhi

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Are you driving at one hundred miles an hour going nowhere?

Are you constantly busy doing unimportant things?

Are you repeating the same things over again and again? 

 

 

June 9, 2010

The generosity of Mother Teresa

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“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

— Mother Teresa, charity worker

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When we give a sincere compliment, it costs us nothing, but it enriches the person who receives it. It usually doesn’t take much of our time, but it has a long lasting effect on the recipient.

Why don’t we take time to give more compliments?

 

May 22, 2010

Can’t sleep?

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“Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep”

Fran Lebowitz ( 1950-      )

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I still feel like a kid most of the time. I really don’t like going to sleep at night. I can’t wait to get up early in the morning.

By the time I’m ready to go to bed, I’m so exausted that I fall asleep right away. In between I try to live life to the fullest.

Do you have a hard time sleeping sometimes?

If you do, I reccommend that you do something very enjoyable until you’re so tired, that you will need to rest very quickly.

 

May 21, 2010

How do we spell love?

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When it comes to relationships with your loved ones;

Love is spelled  T-I-M-E.

 

May 20, 2010

How to make your life easier?

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Our life is frittered away by detail…simplify,simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

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How much time do you spend taking care of things that are not important?

How much time do you invest in things that are important?

Do you take time to get rid of what’s not essential?

 

 

 

May 11, 2010

A short time to live

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It’s the age-old question, how to reconcile the fact that life is so short?

Make the most of every nanosecond.

Or at least, die trying…

 

May 10, 2010

Day by day

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  “Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense.”
   
  Marcus Aurelius (121–180)
Roman emperor, philosopher

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In other words, we should try to be fully aware of each moment, to do one thing at the time with people, to be active and productive and to simply be ourselves.

 

May 8, 2010

Advice from Vince Lombardi.

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“If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough.”

— Vince Lombardi, football coach

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There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. This is how we learn.

Where did we get the idea that we have to avoid making mistakes?

What we should try to avoid is repeating the same mistake over and over again.

When we learn from our mistakes, we improve our quality of life and we save time in the long run.

Do you try to avoid making mistakes at all cost?

 

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