Keep your thoughts positive

Keep your thoughts positive

"Keep your thoughts positive, because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive, because your words become your actions. Keep your actions positive, because your actions become your habits. Keep your habits positive, because your habits become your lifestyle. Keep your lifestyle positive, because your lifestyle becomes your destiny." — Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Whining is like a rocking chair

Whining is like a rocking chair

I am watching The Deadliest Catch and one of the fishermen had a great quote.  He said whining is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but you just don't get anywhere. Loved that.

Never let the garbage truck run over you (email I received)

Never let the garbage truck run over you (email I received)

How to Keep Others' Negativity from Affecting You Do you let a bad driver, rude waiter, curt boss, or an insensitive employee ruin your day? However, the mark of a successful person is how quickly one can get back their focus on what's important. David J. Pollay explains his story in this way.... Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it. And…

Making space for innovation: clearing out the old to welcome the new

Making space for innovation: clearing out the old to welcome the new

"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into our mind, but how to get the old ones out. Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture. You must get the old furniture of what you know, think and believe out before anything new can get in.” — Dee Hock — Founder of Visa