My actions are my only true belongings. – Thich Nhat Hanh
Your legacy, what you truly leave behind, is what you’ve done.
All your possessions are fleeting and can be lost in an instant — and will fade and decay anyway.
What endures are the choices you made, the work you’ve done and lives you’ve touched.
Concern yourself less with “stuff” and more – much more – with what you do.
Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do. – Marilyn vos Savant We are not X because of Y, we are X because of our thinking about Y * * * In the above X = how we’re feeling and Y =anything outside us. * * * So many don’t get this. They…
I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful. – Johann Sebastian Bach Even Bach had to work his butt off. Our bodies and minds are made for work, hard work, and creativity, and sometimes making the impossible real. Do the work. Earn the rewards. For Bach it was…
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. – Jim Rohn And change is hard. Change is easier, slightly, when approached authentically* and gradually.** Change takes hard work. Sustained, daily, hard work. Get started, now. The time is going to pass anyway, and you’re going to be doing something anyway. *…
As a human being* with both a cerebral** and a limbic*** brain, the ability to accurately, and resourcefully, interpret and assign meaning to events and circumstance may well be the master skill of living well. * * * How do you interpret and understand your life? Its events and results and your thoughts and feelings?…
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. – John F. Kennedy When our words don’t match our actions we’re lying. Lying to, at least ourselves, but quite possibly others. Better to make small pronouncements and act accordingly, than speak…
Human labor, through all its forms, from the sharpening of a stake to the construction of a city or an epic, is one immense illustration of the perfect compensation of the universe. The absolute balance of Give and Take, the doctrine that every thing has its price, — and if that price is not paid,…