What Takes The Longest
It’s the job that’s never started that takes the longest to finish. – J.R.R. Tolkien
Just let that one sink in for a minute . . . .
Make sure you take the time to regularly schedule nothing. If you’re in the habit of always scheduling something, of filling your schedule, make sure you take time for nothing. Not “nothing” in an absolute sense, but times where you just relax or practice being present, with no particular agenda, maybe with a certain (restorative/renewing)…
The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, ‘If you will take care of me, I will take care of you.’ Now I say, ‘I will take care of me for you if you will take care of you for me.’ – Jim Rohn Is this…
If the unexamined life is not worth living, . . . it’s equally true that the unlived life is not worth examining. – Parker Palmer This quote pretty much speaks for itself. Yes, we must examine our lives, and ourselves, continually throughout our lives, but that’s only half of what’s necessary. We must have a…
If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature. – Buddha Couple things come to mind when I read that quote: 1) You’re more than you think. It’s okay to “walk alone” if that is what’s needed. 2) You’re the average of the…
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. – Wayne Dyer
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. – Washington Irving Every moment we have a choice: to learn and grow or to resist and decay. We can be passive and at the mercy of circumstance or we can be active and create our lives. It all starts in…