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“Success is peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you’re capable.” -John Wooden “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”Continue reading “Peace Of Mind”

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response…Everything can be taken from a person but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” -Viktor Frankl There is a Buddhist proverb thatContinue reading “The Parable Of The Two Arrows”

“Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no matter how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm, I am doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it I can accomplish miracles…Enthusiasm,Continue reading “When Enthusiasm Fades”

“You’re welcome to spend your day with your face buried in your phone. Just don’t expect to also create interesting and meaningful things with that day. Expecting tech companies to quit distracting you is like expecting a dragon to quit spitting fire. That’s what dragons do. Your job is to figure out how to slayContinue reading “Intentional Attention”

“I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you becauseContinue reading “Love and Live The Questions”

Christmas Poem by Mary Oliver Says a country legend told every year:Go to the barn on Christmas Eve and seewhat the creatures do as that long night tips over.Down on their knees they will go, the fireof an old memory whistling through their minds! I went. Wrapped to my eyes against the coldI creaked backContinue reading “Christmas Poem”

Silent night, holy night. All is calm, all is brightRound yon Virgin, Mother and ChildHoly Infant so tender and mildSleep in heavenly peaceSleep in heavenly peace -song “Silent Night” by Franz Xaver Gruber “The three worst things in life are to try to please and not be able to. To lie in bed to sleepContinue reading “On Waiting Well”

“All I’m saying is I want to look back and say that I did the best I could while I was stuck in this place.” -Don Dawson from the film Dazed and Confused While Wooderson’s “Just Keep Livin’” is the most famous line and has gotten all the glory over the years, Dawson droppin’ someContinue reading “Don Dawson Wisdom”

Definition of Assertion (noun) a : insistent and positive affirming, maintaining, or defending (as of a right or attribute)b : a declaration that something is the case “The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing…My biggest success and my biggest failures have in common: They began with an assertion.” -SethContinue reading “Proper Assertions”

“We really need to normalize boredom. Some of your most creative moments come during periods of boredom. In the shower, on a walk, at a dinner by yourself. You’re bored, your mind wanders, your thoughts mingle. Bam! Creative insight strikes. Schedule boredom into your weeks.” -Sahil Bloom “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inabilityContinue reading “Do. No. Thing.”