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The ever-accelerating passage of time

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“How did it get so late so soon?”
     -–Dr. Seuss

Do you remember how long it took your birthdays to come around each year when you were a child? If your childhood was like mine it probably seemed like the next birthday would never arrive.

But something likely changed as you got older. Instead of your birthdays taking their sweet time in making their arrival, they began coming in bunches. For me, it seems like I now have about three birthdays per year!  [Read more…]

The joys of childhood

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“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
     -–Heraclitus

Like most folks you probably have wonderful memories of your childhood, a time when worries were few and pleasures were many.

Running around the playground and having fun with friends, hopping on your bike and riding with the wind until the porch lights came on…not having to worry about how you’re going to pay your bills or deal with any of the troubles related to adulthood.  [Read more…]

“Stepping Stones” (turning failures into success)

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“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
 -–Dale Carnegie

Most every day we come into contact with people who seem to have it all; people who live charmed lives with everything they could ever need or want handed to them on a silver platter.

But truth be told, folks who were “born with silver spoons in their mouths” are actually few and far-between.  [Read more…]

Learn from the past but live in the present – always with an eye towards the future

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“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.”
 -–Roy T. Bennett

As humans, well all make mistakes and suffer great loss on occasion. It’s just a part of life.

It’s easy to fall into the trap of dwelling on the bad times and forgetting that tomorrow will begin with the dawning of a new day.  [Read more…]

Time is both precious and fleeting. Use it wisely.

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“Time is what we want most and what we use worst.“
     -–William Penn

Chances are you’ve heard the oft-repeated 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.

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