Learn To Say No

I told you there was a collection of books written by wise men and women who have worked very hard to investigate, research and describe the ways to transform our lives into ones of effectiveness, excellence and fulfillment? There is. I have one on my bookshelves. I have collected them over the years and reading…

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. – Thomas Jefferson Yes, the past is a good teacher . . . just don’t spend all your time in that classroom.

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else. – Cyrus H. Curtis One of the greatest challenges of living in a society (or a community, or family, or relationship) – with its myriad influences and normative (and sometimes…

Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky. – Hafiz I recently had a realization similar to the quote above. I was waiting for love to come to me, to be loved and cared for…

Do not count the days; make the days count. – Muhammad Ali Counting the days is splitting your time between the past and the future. Usually it’s wishing the days gone by were different and hoping the days to come are better. Living well and achieving is all about being-in-the-moment and making each moment – each…

“Only free people can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.” – Woodrow Wilson Wilson, of course, is speaking of the freedom that citizens (of a country) with liberty have. That, when encumbered by oppression and the like…