“The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.” ~ Thomas Dreier
Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you’re waking up to instant stress. You shouldn’t be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it’s time to start your day. ~ -Sharon Gold
I remember years ago someone telling me - “If you need an alarm clock to get you out of bed for work in the morning, then you may need to find another job.” Love getting up, love and look forward to the challenges of your life and your work (your life’s work)…because they require you to grow & create to solve them. They also invite you to help others do the same. ~ Kirk Out
The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality. ~ — John Quincy Adams
So we don’t need to be a “Highlander” to be immortal… we just need to treat people with purposeful kindness. Instead of a sword, perhaps just a kind word.
I like that! Let’s influence tomorrow - with our actions and attitudes today, let’s it make it better then, starting right now. ~ Kirk Out
Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him. -William Carleton
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
Choosing to be miserable is an option, but not one I recommend. ~Darren L. Johnson
Do I listen to pop music because I’m miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music? ~ John Cusack
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill
Be miserable, if it makes you happy - Andrew Matthews
Make it a Great Day…or a Miserable One…it’s your choice
Kirk Out
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. — George Bernard Shaw
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting. ~ -e e cummings
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go. -James Arthur Baldwin
I liked these quotes for today…because they got me thinking…. I hope you enjoy them as well.
Kirk
I just pulled this quote from the beginning of one of those short “Simple Truths” clips.
“As leaders shift their focus to customers and quality, they realize that the old authoritarian leadership style does not work anymore. To achieve quality, service, and rapid response, leaders must utilize all available talent. They must find ways to inspire, involve, and empower employees. They must create a work environment that encourages commitment, innovation, and cooperation. Instead of evaluating, leaders now coach. Instead of doing, they delegate. Instead of telling, they facilitate. No one is expected to boss anyone. Everyone is expected to participate.” ~ Dr. Suzanne Willis Zoglio in The Participative Leader, p. v.
“The goal of many leaders is to get people to think more highly of the leader. The goal of a great leader is to help people to think more highly of themselves.” ~ J. Carla Nortcutt
And the leader who gets this - is one who is thought more highly of… hmmn.
Make it a great weekend!!
Kirk
“We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.” ~ by William Arthur Ward as quoted in Leadership . . . with a human touch
