Denis Waitley
My grandma, Mabel Reynolds Ostrander, and I shared one of those special relationships as rare as a double rainbow. She was 53 when I was 10. That’s when we planted our first Victory Garden together during World War II. We planted seeds together—in the soil—and in each other.
Grandma lived 87 seasons without a complaint. [...]
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I Learned from My Grandma that the Seeds of Greatness Are…
December 30th, 2009
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How to Lift the Stress Out of Your Morning: 7 Quick Tips
December 18th, 2009
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by Henrik Edberg
Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfgangstaudt/ / CC BY 2.0
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely…” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Another morning. Another day begins.
You [...]
Covey’s Greatest Six Principles
November 16th, 2009
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By: Stephen R. Covey
No. 1: Be Proactive: Be a ‘Trim-Tab’
To be proactive means more than taking the initiative. It means that we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
I am a big fan of Buckminster Fuller, who said he always wanted to be a “trim-tab,” [...]
