The year is winding down and so we will be making our New Year's resolutions and setting out personal goals for 2007.
I read a lot of motivational and leadership books and articles, and I pulled a couple of things for the readers to ponder. There are some serious thoughts and some light-hearted ones, as well.
Here is a passage from Michael Levin's book, "Bottom Line Personal Book of Bests: Winning Words of Wisdom."
– Live your life in the manner that you would like your children to live theirs.
– You know you are doing something right when you start being copied.
– Extraordinary people are most often ordinary people with extraordinary determination.
– Many important batters in life have to be fought more than once to be won.
– We must train ourselves not to see the worlds only through tour own eyes.
– In terms of choosing a career, the trick is to find a job that you would do for free if life afforded you the opportunity.
– The job of a manger is to do everything it takes to make sure that every task gets done.
– The only job security in the world is to be more talented tomorrow than you are today.
– Nothing is as stressful as trying to be a different person than who you are.
– A pessimist is someone who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
– As a leader, you must constantly change the definition of winning. Keep moving the goalposts.
– I am not a closet minister or anything like that, but I know that everything in life happens for a reason. I believe that opportunity knocks more than once you just have to be home to answer the door.
Here are some humorous thoughts to amuse you. They are from a collection coined by National Baseball Hall of Fame catcher, Yogi Berra.
– Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they will not go to yours.
– If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
– I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
– Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.
– You wouldn't have won the game if we had beaten you.
– It's like d?j? vu all over again.
In closing, a little more meaningful are these two:
-Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of candles will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Chinese Proverb.
– There is no such thing as can't or won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward or go backward. Whatever it takes. But you can not blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are all special people. Ian Ashford.
There you have it; thoughts to ponder and maybe even share with others.
I read a lot of motivational and leadership books and articles, and I pulled a couple of things for the readers to ponder. There are some serious thoughts and some light-hearted ones, as well.
Here is a passage from Michael Levin's book, "Bottom Line Personal Book of Bests: Winning Words of Wisdom."
– Live your life in the manner that you would like your children to live theirs.
– You know you are doing something right when you start being copied.
– Extraordinary people are most often ordinary people with extraordinary determination.
– Many important batters in life have to be fought more than once to be won.
– We must train ourselves not to see the worlds only through tour own eyes.
– In terms of choosing a career, the trick is to find a job that you would do for free if life afforded you the opportunity.
– The job of a manger is to do everything it takes to make sure that every task gets done.
– The only job security in the world is to be more talented tomorrow than you are today.
– Nothing is as stressful as trying to be a different person than who you are.
– A pessimist is someone who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
– As a leader, you must constantly change the definition of winning. Keep moving the goalposts.
– I am not a closet minister or anything like that, but I know that everything in life happens for a reason. I believe that opportunity knocks more than once you just have to be home to answer the door.
Here are some humorous thoughts to amuse you. They are from a collection coined by National Baseball Hall of Fame catcher, Yogi Berra.
– Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they will not go to yours.
– If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
– I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
– Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.
– You wouldn't have won the game if we had beaten you.
– It's like d?j? vu all over again.
In closing, a little more meaningful are these two:
-Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of candles will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Chinese Proverb.
– There is no such thing as can't or won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward or go backward. Whatever it takes. But you can not blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are all special people. Ian Ashford.
There you have it; thoughts to ponder and maybe even share with others.