June 24, 2010
“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 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?
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 31, 2010
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Gandhi
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This wraps up my whole philosophy in 2 very wise sentences. Stick this quote on your door, so that every time you leave the house you apply this philosophy.
May 30, 2010
“Do not allow the little things of today to disturb you.”
Author unknown
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When an issue upsets you, try to remember how small and insignificant that issue is in comparison to what other people are going through all over the world. Some people have no food, no water, no shelter, no health…is your problem really that important?
Why do we give so much time and attention to the little things?
Why are the causes of disagreement so often on the little things?
Why don’t we invest our time on the real important issues of our lives?
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 17, 2010
“To choose time is to save time”
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
English philosopher
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It’s all about choices! At every moment, we must choose.
Choose to eat well. Choose to sleep enough. Choose to be physically active. Choose to learn some new skills. Choose to teach to younger people. Choose to be friendly. Choose to be patient. Choose to give. Choose to relax. Choose, choose, choose.
We each have to make our own choices individually.
Which choice will you make today?
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.
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