If you want to get the best out of a person you must look for the best that is in him. – Bernard Haldane
Which would you rather have: a boss who doesn’t know you very well and doesn’t give you challenging or interesting assignments, or one that gets to know you and asks you to stretch and learn and grow?
I imagine you chose the latter.
That’s human nature.
Be the kind of person who assumes the best in people and seeks to bring out the greatness in us all.
The most important person you can keep your word to is yourself. I had a thought the other day, and didn’t capture it at the time (bad Matt . . . !), but want to (try to) re-construct it now. The gist was that we have many of the troubles we do in life because we…
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. – The Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama) Happiness is not something you buy. Happiness is not some place you get to. Happiness is not something you trade misery for. Happiness is something you create – by your thoughts, feelings and actions. What…
It seems as many of us act as if death is the greatest tragedy. It’s a mistaken view. The greatest tragedy is not living while you’re alive. So many of us, myself included at times, “half” live in a state of muted fear. We live in a smaller, chastened way that keeps us from many…
Character is much easier kept than recovered. – Thomas Paine Whatever it takes to earn the esteem and trust is but a fraction of what it takes to rebuild yourself in the eyes of others. And that’s assuming it’s even possible. Sometimes, once you lose the confidence of people it can be impossible to get…
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life – happiness, freedom, and peace of mind – are always attained by giving them to someone else. – Peyton C. March Whatever we hoard withers and contracts. Whatever we give away regenerates and expands. The things that matter…
I’m reading what I believe is a great book. How do I know? How can I know when I’m not done yet? Because I’ve already received a great idea. A powerful new way of seeing something. What’s that “something?” There’s a difference between serving and pleasing. One brings forth your best, and creates good for…