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Continue reading →: When you move your focus from competition to contribution, life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people. Just win their hearts.When you move your focus from competition to contribution, life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people. Just win their hearts. From the beginning of school, we are raised in a competitive society in which we are all jostling for highest scores, best grades, best performance and aiming to…
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Continue reading →: Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express, not to impress. Don’t strive to make your presence noted, just make your absence felt.Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express, not to impress. Don’t strive to make your presence noted, just make your absence felt. Is it possible that we are continually supporting the wrong value system, while simultaneously feeling the vacuous nature of a society that celebrates those…
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Continue reading →: Doing the right thing is never the wrong thing.Doing the right thing is never the wrong thing. TED LASSO I thought this was a humorous choice given the last couple of posts this week. I do not always get happy feedback from my friends when I choose to opine about the state of our country. I will not…
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Continue reading →: Violence does not spring from a vacuum. It’s born out of other men’s violence It gets nurtured and it grows in a soil of prejudice and of hate and of bigotry.Violence does not spring from a vacuum. It’s born out of other men’s violence It gets nurtured and it grows in a soil of prejudice and of hate and of bigotry. ROD SERLING I found this quote on Meta. It is a post from Rod’s daughter, Anne, who was sharing…As…
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Continue reading →: Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge. CARL JUNG If ever there were a time in history for this truism to be evaluated and its implied warning heeded, it would be now. We are living in a time of massive turmoil, created predominantly on the core issue that Jung…
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Continue reading →: It’s the lack of hope that kills you.It’s the lack of hope that kills you. TED LASSO Continuing in my Ted Lasso series of aphorisms, I enjoyed watching them debate this topic (albeit briefly) on an episode. One of the characters was chiming in about the supposed truism… “It’s the hope that kills you.” And, as quickly…
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Continue reading →: Every disadvantage has its advantage.Every disadvantage has its advantage. TED LASSO We are so quick to lament the variables that hold us back. They are an assault on our dreams. A barrier to our hopes and expectations. A source of disappointment, frustration and aggravation. But… what if they are all components of creating all…
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Continue reading →: I get up and nothin’ gets me down. You got it tough, I’ve seen the toughest around. And I know, baby, just how you feel. You got to roll with the punches and get to what’s real.I get up and nothin’ gets me down You got it tough, I’ve seen the toughest around And I know, baby, just how you feel You got to roll with the punches and get to what’s real VAN HALEN Separating the wheat from the chaff. Isn’t that truly one of…
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Continue reading →: All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move.All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move. Alfred Lord Tennyson I was attracted to this aphorism because of the word smithing that Tennyson used to craft it. His sentence construction and visual imagery is as succinct and precise…
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Continue reading →: My hope is that the 21st century will be the first century where there will be no violation of human rights, and to that end, Japan would like to do our outmost.My hope is that the 21st century will be the first century where there will be no violation of human rights, and to that end, Japan would like to do our outmost. Shinzo Abe The assassination of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday left yet another scar on the continued hopes…
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