As part of my desire to give back, I am a mentor and share my business and life experiences through the process. I recently saw some rules of mentoring and thought they were right on point. What do you think?
If anything goes wrong, I did it.
If anything goes sorta of right, we did it.
If all goes real good, they did it.
Filed under: friendship, humor, mind, thoughts | Tags: Habits, Mouse, Technology, Touch Pad
Another sign that old habits are hard to break. Sometimes you only do so when forced to. Well, I was forced to the other day. My old computer mouse was forced into retirement. In another words, it broke. I have had a mouse with my PC’s over the 25-30 years I have been computer proficient. When I bought my current laptop I intended to retire my mouse and start using the touch pad. I tried to for a few days and decided I couldn’t do that to my old friend. But now that it has broken, I going to advance a few years and start using the touch pad. Or maybe I am just too cheap to buy another mouse. Regardless, I am using the touch pad today and will continue to do so. It really is not all that bad.
How about you, are old habits hard to break? Do you maintain unless forced to break? Are there more mouse users out there?
What’s on Your Mind?
Life = The People You Meet + What You Create Together
This is a new colleague’s salutation in his notes, etc. I know I said no more quotes in my last blog (Thought 36), but I thought this quote was too genius, too telling, to pass up.
I asked this colleague for the source of the quote. He actually created it from another quote from a book on networking. The book stated:
“. . . [P]eople are just another name if you stop there . . .it is when you create something meaningful together that life has meaning.”
Beautiful!
I won’t say much other than I hope I am living life this way each and every day.
What about you?
Filed under: God, hello, love, mind, spirituality | Tags: afterlife, future, life, past, present, spirituality
Live for now, for today! I have blogged on that point or topic in many bogs. See What’s on Your Mind – Thoughts 19, 20, 26, 30 and 32. I believe living in the present is the foundation for a happy life today and a happy life tomorrow. It determines your external life. Enough from me. But look what this wise men and women had to say.
-Get over it. The past is the past. (Suzie Orman)
-Duty and to-day are ours, results and futurity belong to God. (Horace Greeley)
-How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. (Annie Dillard)
-Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away; enjoy therefore the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce. (Horace Greeley)
-Lost yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever. (Horace Mann)
-Every man’s life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. (Marcus Aurelius)
-If before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar and remark, “there goes another day of my life, never to return” you will becoe time conscious. (A.B. Zu Tavern)
-Let any man examine his thoughts, and he will find them ever occupied with the past or the future. We scarely think at all of the present; or if we do, it is only to borrow the light which it gives for regulating the future. The present is never our object; the past and the present we use as means; the future only is our end. Thus, we never live, we only hope to live. (Blaise Pascal)
-Look upon every day as the whole of life, not merely as a section; and enjoy and improve the present without wishing, through haste, to rush on to another. (Jean Paul Richter)
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. (Albert Einstein)
-The best preparation for the future, is the present well seen to, and the last duty done. (Jawaharlal Nehru)
-I know today truly is a blessing and is the only time there is. (Wally Amos)
Filed under: Friends, God, animals, books, cats, friendship, hello, mind, music, politics, spirituality | Tags: books, God, life, spirituality
I started reading Rick Warren’s bestseller “The Purpose Driven Life”. This is the second time for my reading this book; I had read it previously in 2005. The point of the book is you must have a to drive your life. Drive is defined as “to guide, to control, or to direct.” According to the author life without purpose is meaningless. And life driven by something other than purpose (i.e., guilt, resentment, anger, fear, materialism, need for approval) is a life in motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. Trivial, petty and pointless — life without purpose. I’m only to Chapter 3 of the book. (You read a chapter a day over a 40 day period. Do you know the significance of 40? A topic for another “Thought”.) But I am already thinking about my purpose. Given that I only read the book and became a subscriber to it’s philosophy a short three years ago, why do I need to think about my purpose? Why do I want/need to read the book again? Do I need to discover my purpose again? Renew it? Change it? Maybe I do; maybe I don’t. We’ll see as I progress over the next 37 chapters and days. Regardless, I do believe that purpose provides a purpose. Huh? That is clear to me. Does purpose drive you? Does purpose direct you? What do you think? More later from me as I progress through “The Purpose Driven Life.”
Filed under: Friends, God, animals, friendship, mind, politics | Tags: friendship, mind, spirituality
Do you view your life as the glass half full or half empty? I have always thought of myself as a half full type of guy. My life has it problems and problems that some days seem insurmountable, but I always try to stay positive and count my blessings. Recently, I was discussing this old adage with a good friend. This friend has one of best outlooks on life of anyone I know. So was I surprised when she told me she does not view her glass as half full. I asked how she could not. She told me I view my glass, my life as “my cup runneth over.” I thought about this and realized that even a half full cup still is half empty. My life is not half empty, but is full of joy, blessings and is just plain good. So I no longer think of my glass, my life as half full. Now my cup is running over. How blessed I am. How about you?
I have been thinking a lot about death since my father passed away on December 28 of last year. What is death? The body still exists but the soul or life is gone. The body is a only a vessel for the soul. Death is when the soul leaves the body; not when the body dies. Again, the body is only a vessel; life is the soul. Where does the soul go? To never never land? To heaven? Another vessel–reincarnation? I truly believe that the body and soul separate at death. I also believe in heaven and a higher being. But reincarnation intrigues me. What do you think?
Have you ever heard of musicophilia? It is the study of the science and history of music. I stopped at Starbucks yesterday for a latte. The cup had a quote from Oliver Sacks. It was: “Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears — it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more — it can provide access, even when no mediation can, to movements, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.” Oliver Sacks is a psychologist and author of many books including “Awakenings” (was made into a movie with Robin Williams); and “Musicophilia — Tales of Music and the Brian”. Has anyone read Musicophilia? I want to buy and read it. You know how I agree with his quote; see What’s on Your Mind Day 5. Maybe my friend is a musicophiliaist and doesn’t know it. Music can bring so much interpeace and joy. We need to take advantage of the gifts God had given us. Today music gets a rap for the violence and images some think it causes. I don’t what to debate that today…but only what us all to look at our inter-self consciousness and utilize music for interpeace. We need that in the world of turmoil we live in. What do you think — Day 9. P.S. — Starbucks had great, educational, inspirational and informative quotes on their cups. Don’t miss them.
