July 15, 2010
“If you’re not doing something with your life, it doesn’t matter how long it is. If you’re doing something with your life, it doesn’t matter how long it is. Life does not consist of years lived, but of its usefulness.
If you are giving, loving, serving, helping, encouraging and adding value to others, you have a useful life”
Author unknown
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July 14, 2010
“He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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July 9, 2010
Change is constant in the world we live in. We all know that but somehow, many of us seem to forget this at times.
Why? It is not change most people resist, but rather the pain and discomfort during the period of transition. From birth on, we are constantly changing with never ending new experiences. Our bodies change with time, our thoughts and emotions, our relationships, our finances and our health. Every thing within us and around us is changing constantly.
The change is sometimes so slow that we don’t pay attention to it. If you find yourself resisting to change without being aware of it, I recommend that you hide a fresh banana somewhere for 30 days. Take it out of its hiding place after a month and you will witness the transformation in action. The banana experiment is a clear demonstration of the nature of change. Not all changes will be so noticeable, but the principle of change remains the same.
Winston Churchill said something like this many years ago;
“Take change by the hand before change grabs you by the throat”
It means to me; accept and cooperate with the change that is inevitable before it will be imposed on us.
Do you find yourself resisting to change in some areas of your life?
If your answer is yes, is it because of fear, comfort or any other reasons?
July 8, 2010
“Before my cancer, I was often afraid to try new things or do something different. But I just began singing lessons and this summer I’m off on my first kayak camping trip. I have a chance at living again, and I try to take a moment every day to really appreciate just being alive.”
Joshua, 24 years old, testicular cancer, 2-year survivor
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July 7, 2010
“Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse.”
Author unknown
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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
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
“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 3, 2010
“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. 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
“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
“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 29, 2010
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent.”
Carl Sandburg
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Our time is like a bank account; every day we each have 1440 minutes that we can withdraw and we choose to invest as we want, the only difference with a financial bank account is that we cannot make a deposit, only withdrawals.
What will you do with your withdrawal today?
June 28, 2010
“Time is what we want most, but… what we use worst.”
William Penn
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June 27, 2010
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
Rabindranath Tagore
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June 26, 2010
“With money you can buy a clock but not time”
Chinese proverb
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With good health, we have the energy to be productive,
When we are productive, we can earn a good living,
When we earn a lot of money, we can afford more things,
With more things or resources, it can improve our quality of life, ( up to a certain point)
When our quality of life improves, we can become more generous,
When we become more generous, we feel good about ourselves,
When we feel good about ourselves, it contributes to our general well being and health.
If I keep reasoning this way, it seems that all this should have a positive effect on our longevity.
But sometimes it doesn’t.
Why?
It is difficult to admit or to accept, but we don’ t have control over a lot of things.
One of the thing we don’t have much control over is; Time.
So money can buy us a lot of things, but not Time.
If you have time to read this post, it is because you have more than most people in many areas of your life.
But do you take good care of your time?
June 25, 2010
“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
June 22, 2010
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
Auguste Rodin
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This quote from Auguste Rodin was sent to me from a good friend. I really like this quote because it says;
Nothing is a waste of time… if … which implies that we can learn from good and bad things happening to us,
if and only if we use the experience wisely.
I know it is easier said than done.
Do you experience wisely what is happening to you?
June 21, 2010
“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
“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
“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 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
June 14, 2010
“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
“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
June 11, 2010
“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?
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