Guard Your Spare Moments
“Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Power of Gratitude
“Gratitude is the capacity to stare doubt, loss, chaos and despair right in the eye and say, ‘I am still here.’” – Diana Butler Bass
Continue reading →Define Yourself
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.” – Harvey S. Firestone
Continue reading →Choose Well
“You are the product of your choices. We can’t grow by repeatedly following prescriptions. We can grow only by making new choices. We are the sum total of the choices we have made in the past. We can change what … Continue reading →
Today Need Not Overwhelm Us
“Today is only a small manageable segment of time in which our difficulties need not overwhelm us.”
Continue reading →The First Step
“Once you have set a goal, you can always see the first step. And when you have the courage to take the first step, the second step will appear. When you take the second step, the third step will appear. … Continue reading →
What You Do Makes a Difference
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall
Continue reading →Talking and Behaving
“You can’t talk yourself out of a problem you behave yourself into.” – Stephen Covey
Continue reading →Answering Email is Not Our Work
“Email should be something that helps our work, rather than a tool that controls us. I don’t want my tombstone to say: ‘Here lies Jocelyn K. Glei, she checked all her emails.’ It sounds a bit underwhelming doesn’t it?” – … Continue reading →
The Biggest Thing
“We can never underestimate this truth: No matter who you are, the biggest thing you do in any day is most often going to be a small act of kindness, decency, or love.” – Cory Booker
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