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Life unfolds in moments. Pay Attention.

‎"The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away."

 ~ David Viscott

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” 

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. 

- Martin Luther King, Jr.


There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or to be the mirror that reflects it. 

- Edith Wharton



Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

- Rachel Carson

Five Things We Cannot Change:

1.) Everything changes and ends.

2.) Things do no always go as planned.

3.) Life is not always fair.

4.) Pain is part of life.

5.) People are not loving and loyal all the time.

Being healthy in attitudes and behavior every day.

“The secret to inner peace and lasting happiness is kindness—not random acts of kindness or simply being nice, but rather, kindness as a way of life.” 

- Michael Chase

“Ample sleep needs to be a priority in your life, not just for a high beauty quotient but to ensure basic health, particularly as you get older.” 

- Robert Tornambe, M.D.

“Without the illness I would never have been forced to re-evaluate my life and my career. I know if I had not had cancer, I would not have won the Tour de France.”
--Lance Armstrong

‎"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins; not through strength, but through persistence."
Buddha

Thought for the day: You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying over the future. ~ unknown

‎"Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination." 

- William Arthur Ward

‎"Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness." 

— Mother Teresa

All things are transitory. Get used to it. Accept what you cannot change.

Ring the bells that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering.

There is a crack in everything,

That's how the light gets in.

-- Leonard Cohen

Move On

Regular brushing

Be The Change You Wish to See in The World.

Mahatma Gandhi

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there. Be The Change You Wish to See in The World.

Samuel Johnson

"It is necessary to hope
For hope itself is happiness,
And its frustrations, however frequent
Are less dreadful than its extinction."

Why Change?

I have spent years trying to define what change means to an individual life. Change is a constant.

There are changes we cannot control that happen in the World at large. We can not end a war.
But we can choose our habits and attitudes. This site will focus on improving our performance in the areas of our greatest influence.

Aristotle is often quoted as saying,

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."

"We are what we repeatedly do, Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit."

We will work on a checklist of good habits that will help you create the lifestyle of which you dream.

Reason, passion and desire will keep us motivated and help us to choose worthwhile goals. Habits will be the daily actions that move us along our path to a better life. Daily self-management is an art to be learned because lasting changes in peoples' lives is an "inside job". We need to take lessons to heart and learn about what we want our lives to be, i.e., our purpose. We may need to change some attitudes and some habits along the way to becoming more effective in creating our vision of the meaningful life.

Learning from the example of mentors and people we admire is a good place to start in refining your habits for better results. Investors often gravitate to the methodology employed by a great investor like Warren Buffet as a starting point in formulating thier approach to financial markets and the investing process. Body builders look to Arnold, Boxers look to Sugar Ray,singers to Frank Sinatra, etc. for inspiration and a method of maneuvering through thier chosen profession.

We can train ourselves using books and the Internet which has dedicated itself to open learning, giving every person with a computer and an internet source worldwide an opportunity to hear lectures and read academic papers or to take courses on-line. This fantastic development give a whole new meaning to the autodidact. The self-taught man has many more learning opportunities before him than at any time in past history. Coincidentally, this phenomena may "pop the bubble" of massive student loans given to attend over-priced universities for an education that seldom leads to employment. This may become a similar crash to the housing mortgage implosion of 2008 that is keeping banks and financial markets in a constant state of turmoil today.

The 5 Pillars of Change is my attempt to give readers a method to begin making changes in thier habits to more effectively pursue their goals.

Changing Times

Dalai Lama - Mission Statement

“He frequently states that his life is guided by three major commitments: the promotion of basic human values or secular ethics in the interest of human happiness, the fostering of inter-religious harmony and the welfare of the Tibetan people, focusing on the survival of their identity, culture and religion.”

Its a Mean Old World

WHERE DO WE START TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE?

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there."

— Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)

Patience is the beginning of Mindfulness

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

St. Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 20 August 430)

(As quoted in Distilled Wisdom: An Encyclopedia of Wisdom in Condensed Form‎ (1964) by Alfred Armand Montapert, p. 270)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo