Simple strategy for cleaning The next time you have a big mess to clean up try “the pile method”. The pile method is when you collect all the stuff that needs to be put away in one giant pile, and then sort those things — like with like — into smaller piles, and put those …
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“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” — Maya Angelou
An insight into what we (humans) are… really! All species are invasive species Human beings as we know them have only been around for 70,000 years or so. Honeybees got to North America around the time Columbus did. And the same is true for technologies and companies. Western Union was an interloper, telegrams were the …
“Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice may distort it. But there it is.” – Winston Churchill
Complacency and Ignorance are humanities biggest enemies. We cannot sit on our laurels and expect the future to be the same as the past. We owe renewed vigilance to the next generation. Or we will disappear like all life forms. Please read this history lesson provided by Peter H. Diamandis, MD: The Eradication of Smallpox: …
Jesuit priest Anthony de Mello calls you to find what grips your soul: “You must cultivate activities that you love. You must discover work that you do, not for its utility, but for itself, whether it succeeds or not, whether you are praised for it or not, whether you are loved and rewarded for it …
Shaped by optimists An idea that is lost when we’re walking around in a cynical state of mind is that the many wonderful things in the world around us were all shaped by optimists who refused to let the world around them get them down. Outside of the incredible gifts we’ve gotten from nature, it …
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“You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. …
“To Learn and not to DO is not to Learn”
Are we so complacent and narcissistic that we don’t see what “could be” and just “what is”? Having challenges allow us to grow and if we don’t grow we die. Simple. Rohan Rajiv, the author of A Learning A Day reminds us: One way to measure if we’re stuck in our comfort zone is to …
