We are changing the world faster
than we can change ourselves,
and we are applying to the present
the habits of the past
Winston Churchill
The grand irony is that in learning something new, we have both accepted, and beaten, the challenge of the future. To learn something new, we have likely invested in an old, possibly outmoded, strategy. Each [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Learn to Learn Differently
Posted in Challenges, Change, Creativity, Decisions, Life, Management, Managing, Problem Solving, change management on June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Happiness is Personal
Posted in Belief, Challenges, Life, Life Balance, Love, Self Reflection on June 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Unhappiness is best defined as
the difference between our talents
and our expectations.
Edward de Bono
We suffer from too many options, enticements and temptations. The possibilities before us, make us richer than the Kings of yore. But that nagging desire for even a fraction of what we see, but cannot own, makes us feel as poor as paupers.
The [...]
I Cry… therefore I am
Posted in Belief, Change, Life, Love, Memorial, Self Reflection, religion on June 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It better befits a man
to laugh at life,
than to lament over it.
Seneca
Lamentation and grief soon come easy in a world offering ample opportunity for practice. They can, if we let them, become the pre-packaged response to a world that doesn’t seem to care.
The worst tragedies of today, become the rarely told stories of tomorrow… [...]
Count the Laughter
Posted in Communicating, Creativity, Life, Love, Self Reflection, Soft Skills, communication, humor on June 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Laughter is the shortest distance
between two people.
Victor Borge
Laughter is more intimately contagious than a yawn. A child’s bright laughter in a crowd ignites of a ripple of response. Turned heads, smiles and nods of acknowledgement from strangers to parents.
In a street where wordless unconnected strangers brush closer than lovers embrace. We find ourselves laughing together, [...]
Hope and Tears
Posted in Belief, Challenges, Change, Communicating, Ethics, Life, Love, religion on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
He who has never hoped
can never despair.
George Bernard Shaw
To speak frankly of hope, to one who has never had the need of it, is to utter sounds devoid of meaning. Hope is an enigma, beyond understanding, until experienced.
To speak frankly of hope, to one currently clinging to it for life and sustenance, is to commit [...]
