Monday Memes June 29 2015

One of my favorite quotes over time is that “the only thing that is constant is the rate of change”, which is based on the sayings of Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher who lived from 535 – 475BC. If that was the case then, then it is certainly even more true today. The change that I’m…

With The New Day Comes New Strength Or, as the old saying goes, things will look better in the morning. The title for this post comes from a quote by Eleanor Roosevelt, and actually says: “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” Sometimes we only need to get through that long day,…

Don’t be afraid to step out and take a risk. You don’t want to end up rotting away in a backwater someday wishing that you had… Years ago when we were considering purchasing a new house, and weighing up the risks, a friend said “some days just getting out of bed can be a risk”….

“Out pf the fullness of the heart, the mouth speaks…” If there are all sorts of negativity, unforgiveness, bitterness and anger on the inside, it’s a bit hard to have positive experiences on the outside. In my life, it wasn’t until I found reconciliation with people that I’d hurt, others who had hurt me, and…

There have always been distractions, and reasons why we can’t succeed at something, but in today’s world, it’s even harder to focus. Just the pace and demands of life, let alone the intrusions of things like social media and the 24 hour news cycle, makes it harder to focus. Lets define success here for a…

Albert Einstein said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. A counter argument may state that consistency and persistence pays off, but as always, the truth probably is probably there in the middle somewhere. I’ve had the experience in recent times of sharing with a young man…