what you do is who you become
Larry Vander Schaaf, CNE 4 & 5 is a Sr. Help Desk Analyst for the Pepsi Business Solutions Group out of Canada. I pulled today’s T4D from his e-mail signature block.
“I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.” — Emo Phillips
From Bob Dieter’s signature block I pulled this one - Day by day, what you do is who you become, if you don’t like how things are, change it!
If you have a cool quote or sweet saying in your signature block I invite you to post it as a response to the online blog version of the T4D at kirkweisler.com/t4d
Make it a great day, It’s Your Choice!
Kirk Out
March 17th, 2008 at 3:48 am
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein
March 17th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Learn as if you were going to live forever, live as if you were going to die tomorrow.” Mahatma Gandhi
March 17th, 2008 at 10:58 am
“What I had, I gave; what I kept, I lost forever.” — unknown
March 17th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Couple of them:
“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire”
Reggie Leach
“There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency, something
that should not be done at all.”
Peter Drucker
March 17th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
“A passion for the possible is the emerging force behind every great achievement.” - Anonymous
March 18th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Current signature block:
Ho’ohanohano teaches us to take responsibility for the inner spirit that drives us, creates us and moves us toward the actions we choose to take. When we accept this responsibility, incorporating it into our Kuleana, we begin to think of ourselves as just the stewards of something greater—we treat everyone with dignity and with respect as a way of appreciating our own dignity as human beings, and in a way, getting our own spirit to be better deserving. Rosa Say, author of Managing with Aloha
Prior:
We still live in a world that’s filled with opportunity. In fact, we have more than an opportunity — we have an obligation. An obligation to spend our time doing great things. To find ideas that matter and to share them. To push ourselves and the people around us to demonstrate gratitude, insight, and inspiration. To take risks and to make the world better by being amazing. Seth Godin
All time favorite:
Our example to our children, to our families, and to the world around us is constant. The question is not whether or not anyone is watching, the question is what are they learning as they watch. Kirk Weisler
Another prior one:
Every little day the world’s brand new, the sun comes up and the clouds roll through. Everything else is just up to you. Every little day the world’s brand new. Greg Greenway
March 20th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means. — Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English Novelist
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:02 pm
“Use your ingenuity to the best of your ability” - Norm Virag
My father passed away back in January 2003. It was the day before my second semester of my freshmen year at Michigan State. I was 18, and he was one of the most influential people in my entire life. He lived his life to the fullest, let everyone know how important they were to him, and never let anything get him down. Until the day he died, he was a 25 year old stuck in a 63 year old’s body- anything his kids could do, he could do. Whenever there was a chore to be done that I couldn’t figure out, he repeated this quote to me. I used to get so annoyed with it, “Oh stop it, Dad.”
Now that he’s gone, I realize what it always meant. Do your best and give it your all, it’s the only way to get what you want out of life. Using this, I bit the bullet in college and kicked my own butt to graduate in 4 years with my grades increasing every year. I obtained a career after 3 months and have remained at the same company for almost 2 years, moving up the chain rapidly. I am now a Tools Admin, doing research and management for my company and love every minute of it. I’m successful as I always wanted, and it’s all because I used my ingenuity to the best of my ability.
RIP Dad
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:58 am
I’ve been a corporate officer and I’ve been self employed. I have also been unemployed. Over time I have learned those at the top are not true to themselves, they are true to “the hand that feeds them.” They do not know this, but when they leave their positions, they will. They will become the person they desire to be, not the person they had to be when working for someone else. Ask yourself, are you really doing what YOU want to do with your life?