Category: Motivational

Whatever you want to do, do it now.  For life is time and time is all there is.

“Some cause happiness whereever they go; others, whenever they go.”  – Oscar Wilde

The Dog and the Bone is a fable ascribed to Aesop. According to the story, a dog was carrying a bone over a bridge. Looking down into the water, the dog saw its own reflection, which looked to him like another dog carrying another bone. Wanting the other dog’s bone as well as his own, the dog opened his mouth to bark at the “other” dog it saw, but in doing so, the dog dropped his own bone into the river, where it was gone for good.

The sad, hungry dog learned the hard lesson that, by being greedy, one risks what one already has.

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“Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me” – Chinese Proverb

I was watching The Next Iron Chef on TV tonight which happened to be the finale.  Chef Mehta ended up losing but what he said at the end was very thought provoking.  His metaphor about life was fantastic!  Check this out, it blew my mind…he said: “It’s a little disappointing (losing) but…life is like a staircase — you go up, you go down..but you must never think that the staircase only takes you down.  You must always think that a staircase only takes you up.”

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”

— Robert Frost

When we were young, we were fearless. You talk to children and ask what they want to be when they grow up, and the answers will widely vary.  Some may want to be President, some a garbage person, some an astronaut, some a doctor, but rarely will they say they want to do anything average or mundane with their life.

When I was really young and obviously had no clue about reality, I wanted to be Superman. I had my trusty pillow case my mom would pin to the back of my shirt, and I’m sure I really believed I was Superman running down the street (faster than a speeding bullet, I might add).   Everything is possible through the eyes of a child.  At what point did you stop believing anything is possible?

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller