“Life is an adventure, dare it”
Mother Teresa
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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 29, 2010
The coin of your life
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“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
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 26, 2010
What money can buy.
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“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
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 24, 2010
Are You Stucked in The Middle?
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“People always make time to do the things they really want to do.”
Stephen Lafond
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How creative do we become when we really want to do something? It is too bad we are not as motivated when we have to do something. Then again we are extremely motivated when we must.
So is it possible that only intense desire and extreme fear are the most effective motivators?
In the middle, aren’t we just bored?
What do you think?
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 22, 2010
Nothing is a waste of time…
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“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
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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 20, 2010
From the father of Anne Frank
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“To build up a future, you have to know the past”
Otto Frank
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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?
June 8, 2010
What do you really control?
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“To some degree, you control your life by controlling your time. ”
— Conrad Hilton, hotel executive
36525 days to live 