Life is short - begin every day with a smile!
If you’re still working you’re probably looking forward to the day when you can retire to a well-earned life of leisure.
And if so, you’re certainly not alone.
After all, it’s human nature to want to be able to live life completely on our own terms after decades spent helping someone else get rich.
But unfortunately, there’s a cold, hard truth about retirement: It makes a lot of people miserable.
There are several reasons why: [Read more…]
“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
-–Benjamin Franklin
Have you ever known someone who always seemed to be longing for happiness, but they never quite seemed to find it?
That seems to be a common thread among a large percentage of the world’s population.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Back in pre-Internet days if you needed to research something you probably headed to the library and pored through stacks of encyclopedias, magazines and various other printed materials looking for the info you needed.
Needless to say, doing research that “old-fashioned” way was quite tedious and time-consuming.
But in today’s connected world we can research most any topic or current event with just a quick Google search.
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
–Napoleon Hill
Every now and then I’ll hear someone say something like this:
“I’ve always wanted to do so-and-so, but I never could find the time.”
Each and every one of us will go to our grave with unfulfilled wishes and at least a few things remaining on our “bucket list”, simply because we never “found” the time to do some of the things we most wanted to do.
After all, life is hectic. And at times it can be really tough.
We humans are blessed with a truly amazing gift: The ability to learn.
From the moment we’re born into this world we begin learning.
And once the process of learning begins, it doesn’t stop for a very long time.