Archive for Quotations
Re-Write Your Default Future
We all have a future that’s already been written – our default future, made up our hopes, fears and dreams, but based on and guided by, our experience What is likely to happen if nothing unexpected comes along? The actions we take are hard-wired into our default actions, unless we do something to re-write that [...]
16. For Every Frustrating Situation, Find a Creative Solution
Someone once said that frustration is the creaky, stiff door to the Secret Garden. I don’t know if you’ve watched that childhood drama, but it centers around a garden which is unapproachable and whose entrance has overgrown, remaining almost completely hidden until accidentally discovered by one of the main characters of the film. Sometimes our [...]
15. Understand the Importance of Taking Full Responsibility…
All my mistakes belong to me! Even the ones I do by mistake. OK, enough tongue-in-cheek word-twisting – what do I mean by this statement? Well, I’ll be honest here – I still find this secret of success something of a challenge. It’s easier, after all, to find some external reason why I am not [...]
14. Be Wise in the Course of Persisting
Those who doesn’t persist, gain nothing. Those who persists without wisdom, may lose everything. Those who persist with wisdom have everything to gain. The key here is to allow the pathway that you are forging to be altered as you monitor your progress, or its lack. Skilful downhill skiers have this to a fine art, [...]
13. Learn to Live in Today – Tomorrow May Never Come
Learning to live in today is about appreciating what there is now more than harking back to what once was, or anxiously awaiting what tomorrow might bring. It doesn’t mean negating the responsibilities you have, by any means. It is more to do with attempting to capture the ever present now. Can such a habit [...]