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 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?
June 10, 2010
“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
“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
“To some degree, you control your life by controlling your time. ”
— Conrad Hilton, hotel executive
June 7, 2010
“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do”
Aristotle
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To choose or not to choose?
To invest or to spend?
To compliment or to criticize?
To exercise or to be lazy?
To eat healthy food or junk food?
To study or to watch TV?
To smile or to look sad?
To look at things positively or to look at them negatively?
To feel gratitude or to complain?
To look forward or to look back?
To use our time in a smart way or to waste our limited time?
What will you choose?
June 6, 2010
“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.”
Thaddeus Golas
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I agree but it is easier said than done Thaddeus!
OK OK I will try.
When something happens, stop yourself from reacting, and notice if your reaction is about to benefit you or disadvantage you. The way you choose to react can actually help you grow positively, regardless of the problem, it will most likely not be worth the reaction you were about to attribute to it.
June 5, 2010
“Nonsense is so good because common sense is so limited”
George Santayana
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When we waste our time, this is what I call nonsense. And there is so much time that is wasted.
When we are being smart with our time, this is what I call common sense. And there should be more of this.
Being smart with our time has a different definition for each one of us.
But wasting our time will give us similar results; Frustration, Dissatisfaction, Regrets, Procrastination…
Do you use common sense more often than nonsense?
June 1, 2010
“Hope for a miracle. But don’t depend on one.”
Talmud
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This is like the saying that goes ;
“Pray like everything depends on God and work like if everything depends on you”
To me, it means that we have put our trust in destiny, however we must put in the effort.
We reap what we sow! Help yourself and the universe will help you!
May 26, 2010
“Avoid with fury the killers of time “
Og Mandino
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Most of the time, we are not even aware of how we waste our time.
One of the ways that I found to avoid repeating the same mistake too often is to write it down after becoming aware of it.
The more I become aware of something, the more I will increase the chances of correcting the undesired behaviour.
Have you identified your “killers of time” ?
May 23, 2010
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hope for.”
Epicurus
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May 22, 2010
“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
When it comes to relationships with your loved ones;
Love is spelled T-I-M-E.
May 20, 2010
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 18, 2010
“It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness”
Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson was describing the “Flow” before it was clearly defined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Flow is the mental state of operation in which a person in an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. Proposed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the positive psychology concept has been widely referenced across a variety of fields.
According to Csikszentmihalyi, flow is completely focused motivation. It is a single-minded immersion and represents perhaps the ultimate in harnessing the emotions in the service of performing and learning. In flow the emotions are not just contained and channeled, but positive, energized, and aligned with the task at hand. To be caught in the ennui of depression or the agitation of anxiety is to be barred from flow. The hallmark of flow is a feeling of spontaneous joy, even rapture, while performing a task.
Colloquial terms for this or similar mental states include: to be on the ball, in the zone, in the groove, or keeping your head in the game.
(source: Wikipedia, english, May 18, 2010)
How often are you experiencing the Flow?
May 16, 2010
Act now because now is all you have. Too many times, we wait before doing what we know we should be doing.
This is called procrastination. But why do we wait? Is it because of fear? Is it because of laziness? Is it because of a lack of self-confidence?
Whatever the reason, time will not wait for us.
May 15, 2010
“At the end of each day, you should play back the “movie” of your day”
Stephen Lafond
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If you do, ask yourself if you would like to produce this kind of movie again.
May 14, 2010
Did you ever hear about a simple but powerful concept: the Ant Philosophy. I think everybody should study ants.
Ants never quit. That’s a good philosophy. If they’re headed somewhere and you try to stop them, they’ll look for another way. They’ll climb over. They’ll climb under. They’ll climb around. They keep looking for another way. What a neat philosophy—to never quit looking for a way to get where you’re supposed to go.
Never give up, look ahead and do all you can.
How many times do we start a project without finishing it?
I declare myself; GUILTY. (too many times…)
Have a great week end!
May 12, 2010
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”
Walt Disney
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Walt Disney said, “If you can dream it, you can do it.” Life is too short to spend it doing the possible. Learn to pursue the impossible, pursue what others say can’t be done, pursue what has never been done before, pursue your dreams, and turn them into a reality.You must believe in the beauty of your dreams. Walt said, “When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.” If you’re going to believe, you might as well believe all the way.
May 11, 2010
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
| “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 9, 2010
“Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others”
Morrie Schwartz ( Tuesdays with Morrie p.164)
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Why is it so important to forgive ourselves? Why is it so important to forgive others as soon as we can?
Forgiving ourselves and others is an act of letting go, it is also an act of selfishness because when we let go, we let go of the emotions that are poisoning our day. Who needs these emotions? Shouldn’t we use our limited time and energy for more exciting activities?
Morrie said “Forgive yourself and others before you die”
But since we don’t know when we are going to die, why not forgive NOW?
If we know that we will eventually forgive, why wait?
May 8, 2010
“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?
May 7, 2010
“Forget the past and live in the present hour”
Sarah Knowles Bolton
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There is not much you can do about your past. The only thing you can do is learn from it and try not to repeat the same mistakes.
But what if I cannot learn from my past mistakes? First, forgive yourself for not learning the lesson, then pay the price one more time until you sick of learning the same lesson over and over again.
Which lesson are you willing to learn over and over again?
May 6, 2010
I will never be able do it all! I can only live every moment to the fullest. NOW !
Stephen Lafond
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