Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either.. Just pretty much leave me alone.
It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.
Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
Always remember that you're unique. Just like everyone else.
If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.
Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same day
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Friday, January 25, 2008
Axioms, Truisms, and Theories
By Rick Torcasso, -
Through all those years, I have come across some “truisms.” Of course, some of these you likely already know and have experienced. Maybe a few will jog a thought and improve what you do day-to-day.
Do not focus on weakness at the expense of strength.
There is a reason that phrase “Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water” has survived a few hundred years! I have learned that most strength has inherent weakness. I have also learned that researchers and consultants tend to focus on all those things that you do wrong. Nevertheless, I think that is easy. People dwell on dissatisfaction and take what they like for granted.
Know your strengths, and make those things observable and recognized on behalf of your prospects. If you do that, most weaknesses go away or simply do not matter anymore.
Success means change and the risk of failure.
The failure of those who do not try anything great, or simply stay the status quo, is commonplace and comfortably private. The failure of those who attempt extraordinary accomplishments is much more public and generally accompanied by sighs of dissatisfaction or criticism from ordinary failures. So, do what you can to transcend what is ordinary.
Success requires the risk of disapproval.
All independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval ranging from skepticism and ridicule. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and unshakable conviction. Many of the things you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of an individual who had the courage to believe what their own heart and mind told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.
Do not fight your battles at the bottom of the pyramid; it is much too crowded down there.
Pushing an idea up is much harder than pushing it down. If you want to get ahead, find the highest place you can to start.
Through all those years, I have come across some “truisms.” Of course, some of these you likely already know and have experienced. Maybe a few will jog a thought and improve what you do day-to-day.
Do not focus on weakness at the expense of strength.
There is a reason that phrase “Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water” has survived a few hundred years! I have learned that most strength has inherent weakness. I have also learned that researchers and consultants tend to focus on all those things that you do wrong. Nevertheless, I think that is easy. People dwell on dissatisfaction and take what they like for granted.
Know your strengths, and make those things observable and recognized on behalf of your prospects. If you do that, most weaknesses go away or simply do not matter anymore.
Success means change and the risk of failure.
The failure of those who do not try anything great, or simply stay the status quo, is commonplace and comfortably private. The failure of those who attempt extraordinary accomplishments is much more public and generally accompanied by sighs of dissatisfaction or criticism from ordinary failures. So, do what you can to transcend what is ordinary.
Success requires the risk of disapproval.
All independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval ranging from skepticism and ridicule. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and unshakable conviction. Many of the things you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of an individual who had the courage to believe what their own heart and mind told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.
Do not fight your battles at the bottom of the pyramid; it is much too crowded down there.
Pushing an idea up is much harder than pushing it down. If you want to get ahead, find the highest place you can to start.
Through all those years, I have come across some “truisms.” Of course, some of these you likely already know and have experienced. Maybe a few will jog a thought and improve what you do day-to-day.
Do not focus on weakness at the expense of strength.
There is a reason that phrase “Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water” has survived a few hundred years! I have learned that most strength has inherent weakness. I have also learned that researchers and consultants tend to focus on all those things that you do wrong. Nevertheless, I think that is easy. People dwell on dissatisfaction and take what they like for granted.
Know your strengths, and make those things observable and recognized on behalf of your prospects. If you do that, most weaknesses go away or simply do not matter anymore.
Success means change and the risk of failure.
The failure of those who do not try anything great, or simply stay the status quo, is commonplace and comfortably private. The failure of those who attempt extraordinary accomplishments is much more public and generally accompanied by sighs of dissatisfaction or criticism from ordinary failures. So, do what you can to transcend what is ordinary.
Success requires the risk of disapproval.
All independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval ranging from skepticism and ridicule. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and unshakable conviction. Many of the things you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of an individual who had the courage to believe what their own heart and mind told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.
Do not fight your battles at the bottom of the pyramid; it is much too crowded down there.
Pushing an idea up is much harder than pushing it down. If you want to get ahead, find the highest place you can to start.
Through all those years, I have come across some “truisms.” Of course, some of these you likely already know and have experienced. Maybe a few will jog a thought and improve what you do day-to-day.
Do not focus on weakness at the expense of strength.
There is a reason that phrase “Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water” has survived a few hundred years! I have learned that most strength has inherent weakness. I have also learned that researchers and consultants tend to focus on all those things that you do wrong. Nevertheless, I think that is easy. People dwell on dissatisfaction and take what they like for granted.
Know your strengths, and make those things observable and recognized on behalf of your prospects. If you do that, most weaknesses go away or simply do not matter anymore.
Success means change and the risk of failure.
The failure of those who do not try anything great, or simply stay the status quo, is commonplace and comfortably private. The failure of those who attempt extraordinary accomplishments is much more public and generally accompanied by sighs of dissatisfaction or criticism from ordinary failures. So, do what you can to transcend what is ordinary.
Success requires the risk of disapproval.
All independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval ranging from skepticism and ridicule. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and unshakable conviction. Many of the things you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of an individual who had the courage to believe what their own heart and mind told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.
Do not fight your battles at the bottom of the pyramid; it is much too crowded down there.
Pushing an idea up is much harder than pushing it down. If you want to get ahead, find the highest place you can to start.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
8 Things No One Tells You About Marriage (from Redbook)
You will look at the person lying next to you and wonder, Is this it? Forever?
You'll work harder than you ever imagined.
You will sometimes go to bed mad (and maybe even wake up madder).
You will go without sex -- sometimes for a long time -- and that's okay.
Getting your way is usually not as important as finding a way to work together.
A great marriage doesn't mean no conflict; it simply means a couple keeps trying to get it right.
You'll realize that you can only change yourself.
As you face your fears and insecurities, you will find out what you're really made of.
You'll work harder than you ever imagined.
You will sometimes go to bed mad (and maybe even wake up madder).
You will go without sex -- sometimes for a long time -- and that's okay.
Getting your way is usually not as important as finding a way to work together.
A great marriage doesn't mean no conflict; it simply means a couple keeps trying to get it right.
You'll realize that you can only change yourself.
As you face your fears and insecurities, you will find out what you're really made of.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Inspirational Story
Profits are Better Than Wages by Jim Rohn
My mentor, when I was 25 years old, dropped a phrase on me that changed my life forever when he said, "profits are better than wages. Wages will make you a living, profits can make you a fortune." You know it is a bit difficult to get rich on wages, but anybody can get rich on profits. Profits change your whole attitude, even if you start part-time. Whether it's part-time on your entrepreneurial business, network marketing company or service business.
It can be a landscape business in the summer or hanging Christmas lights in the winter. It can be training, consulting or tutoring. It can be your hobby such as painting, writing, crafts, woodworking, computers or cooking. But once you start investing even part time effort into your own business, you will find how much more exciting it is to get up in the morning and go to work on your fortune, even if you're only spending a few hours a week doing it.
How empowering it is to be able to go to work on your fortune every day rather than going to work to pay the rent. Now - it is noble to go to work to pay the rent, but if you could also parcel out part of your time - go to work to make your fortune. Your whole attitude changes; your spirit changes. It is in your voice. It is in your face. It is in your gestures. And then you can say, "I am now working full-time on my job and part-time on my fortune because I found a way to make profits." Wow!
Let the adventure begin…
My mentor, when I was 25 years old, dropped a phrase on me that changed my life forever when he said, "profits are better than wages. Wages will make you a living, profits can make you a fortune." You know it is a bit difficult to get rich on wages, but anybody can get rich on profits. Profits change your whole attitude, even if you start part-time. Whether it's part-time on your entrepreneurial business, network marketing company or service business.
It can be a landscape business in the summer or hanging Christmas lights in the winter. It can be training, consulting or tutoring. It can be your hobby such as painting, writing, crafts, woodworking, computers or cooking. But once you start investing even part time effort into your own business, you will find how much more exciting it is to get up in the morning and go to work on your fortune, even if you're only spending a few hours a week doing it.
How empowering it is to be able to go to work on your fortune every day rather than going to work to pay the rent. Now - it is noble to go to work to pay the rent, but if you could also parcel out part of your time - go to work to make your fortune. Your whole attitude changes; your spirit changes. It is in your voice. It is in your face. It is in your gestures. And then you can say, "I am now working full-time on my job and part-time on my fortune because I found a way to make profits." Wow!
Let the adventure begin…
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
GENTLE THOUGHTS FOR TODAY
Submitted by Suze Unger
A penny saved is a government oversight.
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.
When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Then you forget to pull up your zipper. It's worse when you forget to pull it down.
Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today, it's called golf
A penny saved is a government oversight.
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.
When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Then you forget to pull up your zipper. It's worse when you forget to pull it down.
Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today, it's called golf
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
THINGS I'VE LEARNED -- BY ERIC ZORN
Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn's latest column is about turning 50, and the 50 things he's learned in that time. Some of them, in no particular order:
It’s better to sing off key than not to sing at all.
Promptness shows respect.
You can’t avoid offending people from time to time. When you don’t mean it, apologize. When you do mean it, accept the consequences.
Don’t be bothered when people don’t share your tastes in music, sports, literature, food and fashion. Be glad. You’d never get tickets to anything otherwise.
Keeping an open mind is as big a challenge as you get older as keeping a consistent waistline.
It’s never a shame when you admit you don’t know something, and often a shame when you assume that you do.
Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you’re not failing from time to time, you’re not pushing yourself. And if you’re not pushing yourself, you’re coasting.
If you’re in a conversation and you’re not asking questions, then it’s not a conversation, it’s a monologue.
In everyday life, most “talent” is simply hard work in disguise.
It’s better to sing off key than not to sing at all.
Promptness shows respect.
You can’t avoid offending people from time to time. When you don’t mean it, apologize. When you do mean it, accept the consequences.
Don’t be bothered when people don’t share your tastes in music, sports, literature, food and fashion. Be glad. You’d never get tickets to anything otherwise.
Keeping an open mind is as big a challenge as you get older as keeping a consistent waistline.
It’s never a shame when you admit you don’t know something, and often a shame when you assume that you do.
Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you’re not failing from time to time, you’re not pushing yourself. And if you’re not pushing yourself, you’re coasting.
If you’re in a conversation and you’re not asking questions, then it’s not a conversation, it’s a monologue.
In everyday life, most “talent” is simply hard work in disguise.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Cherokee Legend
Submitted by Kyle Brooks
Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth's rite of passage? His father takes him intothe forest, blindfolds him and leaves himalone. He is required to sit on astump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of themorning sun shine through it. He cannot cry outfor help to anyone. Once he survives thenight, he is a MAN. He cannot tell the otherboys of this experience,because each lad must come into manhood on hisown. The boy is naturallyterrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely beall around him. Maybe even some human might do him harm. The wind blew the grassand earth, and shook his stump, but he satstoically, never removing the blindfold. It wouldbe the only way he could become a man! Finally, after a horrificnight the sun appeared and he removed hisblindfold. It was then that hediscovered his father sitting on the stump next tohim. He had been at watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm. We, too, are never alone.Even when we don't know it, there is Somebodywatching over us, sitting on the stump beside us. When trouble comes all we have to do is reach out to Him.
Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth's rite of passage? His father takes him intothe forest, blindfolds him and leaves himalone. He is required to sit on astump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of themorning sun shine through it. He cannot cry outfor help to anyone. Once he survives thenight, he is a MAN. He cannot tell the otherboys of this experience,because each lad must come into manhood on hisown. The boy is naturallyterrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely beall around him. Maybe even some human might do him harm. The wind blew the grassand earth, and shook his stump, but he satstoically, never removing the blindfold. It wouldbe the only way he could become a man! Finally, after a horrificnight the sun appeared and he removed hisblindfold. It was then that hediscovered his father sitting on the stump next tohim. He had been at watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm. We, too, are never alone.Even when we don't know it, there is Somebodywatching over us, sitting on the stump beside us. When trouble comes all we have to do is reach out to Him.
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