I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
— Diane Ackerman
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [...]
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
—Buckminster Fuller
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Think about the incredible change that occurs during metamorphosis … from crawling to flying .. from dull to spectacular … from fat & sluggish to light and airy. What metamorphosis can you go through? Nothing is too great a [...]
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“‘We don’t manage the business to maximize anything but the quality of the coffee’ … He wasn’t calculating how to maximize sales; he was providing people with something he believed they ought to enjoy. It was an approach to business and to selling that was as fresh and novel to me as the Starbucks coffee [...]
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“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince)
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I always try to make “right” decisions. But if I only search with my eyes, I make superficial ones. When I stop and allow my heart to have input, then truly [...]
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“This morning I woke up and really wanted to have a soda and a pizza for breakfast … but I didn’t. It seemed more logical, more ‘normal’ to have toast and juice. I think that on my death-bed, I am really going to regret all that pizza that I didn’t eat.
On the other [...]
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“You can gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
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There is a cliché which says “If you keep doing what you’ve been doing, you’ll keep getting what (or where) you’ve been [...]
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“On what he did to win the gold medal in gymnastics at a past Olympics “… every day when the coach said practice was over, I stayed another 20 minutes, … that meant that I practiced over 100 hours more that year than the other gymnasts did”
—Peter Vidmar
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This simple success formula can be applied to [...]
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“Throughout your life, there is a voice only you can hear. A voice which mythologists label ‘the call.’ A call to the value of your own life. The choice of risk and individual bliss over the known and the secure.
You may choose not to hear your spirit. You may prefer to build a life [...]
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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
– Nadia Boulanger
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Good CHOICEs are a critical ingredient to a great life (and bad choices ruin lives that could have been so good).
Nothing wonderful gets created without LOVE.
True success is never achieved without PASSION.
What choices will you be making in the near future?
If we each [...]
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“Often our inner struggles come from our tendency to jump on-board someone else’s problem, … then later, you feel stressed or resentful that you are behind schedule and that everyone seems to be making demands on you. Remembering that you don’t have to catch the ball is a very effective way to reduce the stress [...]
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