The Impact of a Mosquito
“If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.” – Dame Anita Roddick
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Reinforced Behavior Gets Repeated
“Without a doubt, providing recognition is one of the best ways (if not the best way) to build and maintain superior performance. The reason for that is quite simple: reinforced behavior gets repeated.” – Eric Harvey
Continue reading →Worry is…
“Worry is interest paid on unborrowed debt.” – Dan Caringer
Continue reading →If You Are Called, Do the Job Well
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth … Continue reading →
This is the World
“This is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.” – Frederick Buechner
Continue reading →Darkness and Growth
“Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.” – Joan Chittister
Continue reading →The Help of Others
“No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Continue reading →Called to Create Our Own Lives
“It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives.” – Thomas Merton
Continue reading →Happiness Cannot Come from Without
“Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first … Continue reading →
Healthy Discontent
“Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.” – Mahatma Gandhi
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