“ All great speakers were bad speakers at first.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Have you ever been asked to speak in front of a group? Did it make you freeze up like a deer in the headlights? Why is it that public speaking is right up there with skydiving when it comes to [...]
“ A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.” ~ Phyllis Diller You’re at the bank, the return counter, or yes, even the dreaded DMV. Two or three people are ahead of you, and you notice the person behind the glass window with the little hole to speak through is repeatedly scowling [...]
“ Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ~ Viktor E. Frankl Look immediately in front of you. Take a glance at your calendar or your clock. Cast your eyes on the path ahead. [...]
“ The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” ~ Pablo Picasso Do you ever catch yourself indulging in black and white thinking? Have you sometimes fallen into the trap of binary logic? What kind of life does one have if everything is a zero-sum game? You [...]
“ Rivers know this: There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” ~ Winnie-the-Pooh You have a limit. Everyone does. If you’re reasonably lucky, and keep your wits about you, you shouldn’t get pushed to there too often. But despite your best laid plans, your good karma, and your better instincts, once [...]
“ If seven maids with seven mops Swept it for half a year, Do you suppose,' the Walrus said, That they could get it clear?'I doubt it,' said the Carpenter, And shed a bitter tear.” ~ Lewis Carroll Remember Sisyphus? Apparently, this famous figure from Greek mythology was something of a bad dude. [...]
“ The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.” ~ Helen Keller If you can see, you have vision. If you can daydream, you can have a vision. So wouldn’t it be cool if you could build those muscles like any other part of your body and limber them up to [...]
“ The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” ~ Albert Einstein OK, it’s riddle time again. Name something that you need but you can’t buy. Everything and everyone has some degree of it. When you’ve got plenty of it, you rarely think about it, but when it’s missing, you know you [...]
“ Youth has no age.” ~ Pablo Picasso Remember cassettes? Those little compact plastic boxes that held a spool of analog magnetic tape? If you wanted to skip from one song to another you had to use the fast-forward or rewind buttons on your tape player. Well, cassettes (and videotapes for that matter) are [...]
“ Your soul becomes dyed with the colour of your thoughts.” ~ Marcus Aurelius What is your soul anyway? Is it your consciousness? Is it your collection of life experiences? Is it something you’re born with that stays the same throughout your life? Or is your birth just the starting point and your [...]
