The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score. – Bill Copeland
No, not that sort of “scoring!”
I mean do you know when you’ve accomplished something important? Something of value, to you?
Without goals, you won’t know.
It’s “interesting” how some people just don’t understand how mortgage rates work. There’s a train of thought that says: “as the Fed lowers interest rates mortgage rates will come down.” That’s just not so. The Fed only controls the Fed Funds Rate, which does impact floating rate instruments, like, say, credit cards and high-yield savings…
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. – Jack Kinder So many people have low expectations. It’s “safer” that way. If you don’t want much, you can avoid “failure.” The thing is there’s no such thing as failure, just results. Sometimes the results are not what we desired and/or anticipated. That’s…
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. – Henry Stimson Who do you wish you could trust? Trust them. Go ahead, it will be okay. * * * But, “What if they abuse that trust!?” you object? Create a life impervious to the actions of others – a life free of attachments,…
“I must learn to love the fool in me—the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also…
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. – James Bryce As we, in the United States, take a day to honor those who gave their lives in battle, for our country, let us ponder that ultimate sacrifice. Let us examine ourselves as…
Each one has to find his peace from within. And for peace to be real it must be unaffected by outside circumstances. – Mahatma Gandhi This reminds me of something I heard in the past: real peace-of-mind is being unaffected by both the bad and good opinion of others. So, cultivate and nurture a peace that…