Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.  ~ Brendan Francis [Behan] (1923-1964) Irish Author

Today's T4D is shared with us by Michael Berger "One of a few REALLY good men" from Plan B Services

Let us have the vision to “SEE BEYOND” and happily do so.

Kirk

“One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt
I think Thomas Monson said it better when he simply stated that, “Our decisions determine our destiny.”

 So let us choose wisely and choose to make it a great day…and a great week.

Kirk Out

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.  ~– Booker T. Washington

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.   ~ Norman Vincent Peal

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. ~ Norman Vincent Peal

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.   True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.  ~Walter Anderson

Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.  ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

Make it a Helpful Day, Make it a Hopeful One

Kirk

Enterprise Is Better than Ease by Jim Rohn

If we are involved in a project, how hard should we work at it? How much time should we put in?

Our philosophy about activity and our attitude about hard work will affect the quality of our lives. What we decide about the rightful ratio of labor to rest will establish a certain work ethic. That work ethic - our attitude about the amount of labor we are willing to commit to future fortune - will determine how substantial or how meager that fortune turns out to be.

Enterprise is always better than ease. Every time we choose to do less than we could, this error in judgment has an effect on our self-confidence. Repeated every day, we soon find ourselves not only doing less than we should, but also being less than we could. The accumulative effect of this error in judgment can be devastating.

— Fortunately, It Is Easy To Reverse The Process —

Any day we choose we can develop a new discipline of doing rather than neglecting. Every time we choose action over ease or labor over rest, we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect and self-confidence. In the final analysis, it is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives. It is activity that converts human dreams into human reality, and that conversion from idea into actuality gives us a personal value that can come from no other source.

So feel free to not only engage in enterprise, but also to enjoy it to its fullest along with all the benefits that are soon to come!

To Your Success,  Jim Rohn

WORD of the Day  - (Just playing with this idea)

recidivism \rih-SID-uh-viz-uhm\, noun:
A tendency to lapse into a previous condition or pattern of behavior; especially, a falling back or relapse into prior criminal habits.

I was engaged in a major research project that involved twenty-six countries, studying how to prevent recidivism in juvenile delinquents released from prison.
– Peggy Claude-Pierre, The Secret Language of Eating Disorders

According to the best available estimates, the . . . program has reduced the recidivism rate among participants to roughly half that of the general prison population in the state.
– James McQueeny, “And a Prison Helps Out, Too”, New York Times, February 7, 1982

Recidivism derives from Latin recidivus, “falling back,” from recidere, “to fall back,” from re-, “back” + cadere, “to fall.” One who relapses or who is an incorrigible criminal is a recidivist.

The Virtue of Patience by Denis Waitley (Excerpted from The Psychology of Motivation)

While persistence is the determination to strive to achieve your ultimate goal, there is another virtue of equally great value. Persistence keeps us moving inside ourselves to see the purpose behind the purpose, but patience is the wisdom behind persistence.

Patience cautions us to focus our efforts on what we can change while accepting what we cannot. When external circumstance rains on our parade, patience is our umbrella. Rather than blaming what we cannot control, patience is the wisdom behind persistence.

It is when a goal is distant and difficult to reach that patience is an ally. Time changes everything, but with patience you can keep your desires relatively constant. If you can just hang on long enough, time will finally create the conditions in which you can succeed.

Came across this “Word of the Day” website… liked it.  Here’s a word I invite you to integrate into your dialogue today.  I can hardly wait to try this one… Heck I think I may just do it several times  :).   

importunate \im-POR-chuh-nit\, adjective:
Troublesomely urgent; overly persistent in request or demand; unreasonably solicitous.

An emperor penguin in captivity starved to death by feeding all his rations — about six pounds of fish daily — to an importunate chick.
– Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Emperor’s Embrace

The play is a cacophony of importunate ringing doorbells and telephones, of pleas both professional and romantic from an exasperating assortment of colleagues and admirers.
– Ben Brantley, “Present Laughter”, New York Times, November 19, 1996

Jokes form a kind of currency, such that a wise-crack from the most importunate beggar may bring instant reward.
– Max Rodenbeck, Cairo: The City Victorious

Importunate is derived from Latin importunus, “unsuitable, troublesome, (of character) assertive, insolent, inconsiderate.”

Make sure you don’t have an importunate day?   Hmmn….I’ll try again.

  Kirk Out

Resolve says, “I will.” The man says, “I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky and too difficult. But it’s my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying.” ~ Jim RohnDisgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change. ~ Jim Rohn

I liked this quote pulled from an online article in Fast Company.

“Organizations are not just places where people have jobs.” -Doug Smith, Author, “On Value and Values”  (For Full Article Click Here)

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.  ~  - Immanuel Kant

Make it a great weekend - Refresh your mind, replenish your spirit and renew and reconnect with an important relationship.  ~ Kirk out

The Power of Technology = Today, in a few minutes a person on a computer can make a mistake so great,  that just a few years ago it would have taken many men many months to equal it.  ~    - Unknown

The following story was sent to me twice in a day last week…so I felt I should pass it along. 

I hired a plumber to help me restore an old farmhouse, and after he had just finished a rough first day on the job: a flat tire made him lose an hour of work, his electric drill quit and his ancient one ton truck refused to start..

While I drove him home, he sat in stony silence. On arriving, he invited me in to meet his family. As we walked toward the front door, he paused briefly at a small tree, touching the tips of the branches with both hands.

When opening the door he underwent an amazing transformation. . His face was wreathed in smiles and he hugged his two small children and gave his wife a kiss.

Afterward he walked me to the car. We passed the tree and my curiosity got the better of me. I asked him about what I had seen him do earlier.

“Oh, that’s my trouble tree,” he replied “I know I can’t help having troubles on the job, but one thing’s for sure, those troubles don’t belong in the house with my wife and the children..   So I just hang them up on the tree every night when I come home and ask God to take care of them.Then in the morning I pick them up again.” “Funny thing is,” he smiled,” when I come out in the morning to pick ‘em up, there aren’t nearly as many as I remember hanging up the night before.”

We all Need a Tree!