“Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.” – Maximillian Degenerz Everyone craves instant gratification. It’s that little human urge we all have to ‘want it and want it now.’ But when we do we often find that further down the road, […]
“Good fences make good neighbors.” – Robert Frost Robert Frost wrote ’Mending Wall’ a hundred years ago. It talks about how a man and his neighbor walk their property lines to mend places in their common stone wall that need repair after winter’s damage. One man wonders if mending the wall each year […]
“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 It seems to me that we humans are too hung up on being perfect. It’s especially prevalent in the workplace where we not only demand it of ourselves, […]
Napoleon Hill made an apt analogy when he said ‘A goal is a dream with a deadline.’ Quite true, isn’t it? After all, yearend 2014 is almost a year away and it’s easy for the day to day to take precedence, and override the bigger picture off in the distance. After all, we have plenty […]