Life is short - begin every day with a smile!
“Time is what we want most and what we use worst.“
-–William Penn
Chances are you’ve heard the famous adage “Youth is wasted on the young“.
When you think about it, there’s a lot of truth in that.
By the time most of us have life figured out, we’ve already used most of it up.
“The greatest gift is a passion for reading.“
–Elizabeth Hardwick
My love for reading started when I was little more than a toddler, and it has never waned in all the years since I held that very first book.
It all started with my dad…
Times were hard back when my dad was a child. They were so hard in fact that he quit school after 6th grade to work and help feed his large family.
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.“
–Ancient Chinese Proverb
Do you ever catch yourself saying something like the following?
“I wish I had done [whatever] back when I was younger. I have really missed out.“
Trust me, we all have regrets over opportunities missed, or simply passed up in order to take a different path.
“If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.”
—Pauline Phillips
If someone ever tells you they have never made a mistake, you can rest assured that they are either incredibly naive or incredibly dishonest.
Truth be told, each and every one of us will make a mistake every now and then. Luckily, most of those mistakes will be minor, but one or two could well be life-changing.
Regardless of how minor or how serious our mistakes may be turn out to be, they will always give us a very valuable gift… [Read more…]
There’s a timeless Native American story about two wolves that live inside each and every person – a good wolf and a bad wolf.
These two wolves are constantly struggling to control our thoughts, our actions and our lives.
I won’t relay the entire story here, but the the ending is explained in the short video below. [Read more…]