Happy New Year 2020

Every once in a while, get off the merry-go-round and ask yourself these questions:

·               What are we doing?

·               What should we be doing?

·               What should we be doing next?

·               What should we not be doing?

                                    - Communication Briefing (Adapted 'From 36,000 feet')

Merry Christmas - December 22, 2019

“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before.  What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store.  What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.” 

                                    ~ Dr. Seuss (How the Grinch Stole Christmas)

Thought of the Week: December 15, 2019

“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”

~ Charles Schulz

Thought of the Week: December 8, 2019

“Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.”

~ Peg Bracken

Thought of the Week: December 1, 2019

“You are surrounded by gifts every living moment of every day. Let yourself feel appreciation for their presence in your life and take the time to acknowledge their splendor.”

~ Lou G. Nungesser

Thought of the Week: November 24, 2019

“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”

~ William Arthur Ward

Thought of the Week: November 17, 2019

“Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.”

~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Thought of the Week: November 10, 2019

“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”

~ Dale Carnegie

Thought of the Week: November 3, 2019

“Even as radio waves are picked up wherever a set is tuned in to their wavelength, so the thoughts which each of us think each moment of the day go forth into the world to influence for good or bad each other human mind.”     ~ Christmas Humphreys

Thought of the Week: October 27, 2019

“Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.”
~ Tryon Edwards

Thought of the Week: October 20, 2019

“It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”

~ Alfred Adler

Thought of the Week: October 13, 2019

“One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.”

~ Earl Wilson (Columnist)

Thought of the Week: October 6, 2019

“Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.”

~ John Andrew Holmes

Thought of the Week: September 29, 2019

“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”

~John F. Kennedy

Thought of the Week: September 22, 2019

“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”

~ Napoleon Hill

Thought of the Week: September 15, 2019

“Tomorrow, try something a little different. When you wake up, think about what you want to experience rather than do that day.”

                                                                ~ Laura Posey (Dancing Elephants)

Thought of the Week: September 8, 2019

“The pessimist complains about the wind.  The optimist expects it to change.  The leader adjusts the sails.”

                                                ~ John Maxwell

Thought of the Week: September 1, 2019

“Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts.”

~ Coleman Cox

Thought of the Week: August 25, 2019

“A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.”

~ Charles Gordy

Thought of the Week: August 18, 2019

“Although your customers won't love you if you give bad service, your competitors will!”

~ Kate Zabriskie

Thought of the Week: August 11, 2019

“Well done is better than well said”

~ Benjamin Franklin

Thought of the Week: August 4, 2019

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”

                                                            ~ John Wooden

Thought of the Week: July 28, 2019

“Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become--but your views become more extensive.”

~ Ingrid Bergman

Thought of the Week: July 21, 2019

“When the team comes first, personal recognition, interpersonal concerns, relationships, and any number of internal and external issues that can challenge a team's cohesiveness, are put in proper perspective.”

~ Scott Beare

Thought of the Week: July 14, 2019

“Two things are bad for the heart--running uphill and running down people.”

~ Bernard Gimbel (Cofounder of Gimbel Brothers)

Thought of the Week: July 7, 2019

“"Put me in, coach!" Your positive attitude is displayed when you're ready to play and ask for the opportunity to get into the game. Tell your leader, "I've been doing things to prepare myself for this job/task. I'm confident I can deliver if you'll give me the chance!"”

                                 ~ Paul Sims

Thought of the Week: June 30, 2019

“Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

~Abraham Lincoln

Thought of the Week: June 23, 2019

“The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.”

~ W. Clement Stone

Thought of the Week - June 16, 2019

“The first duty of love is to listen.”

~ Paul Tillich

Thought of the Week: June 9, 2019

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

~ Nelson Mandela

Thought of the Week: June 2, 2019

“You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.”

~ Sugar Ray Leonard (Boxer)

Thought of the Week: May 26, 2019

“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”

~ Colin Powell

Thought of the Week: May 19, 2019

“A thoroughbred horse never looks at the other horses. It just concentrates on running the fastest race it can.”

~ Henry Fonda (Actor)

Thought of the Week: May 12, 2019

“There is no patent on math”

~ Ben Murphy

Thought of the Week: May 5, 2019

“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”

~ Arthur Conan Doyle (Writer)

Thought of the Week: April 28, 2019

“The real person you are is revealed in the moments when you’re certain no other person is watching. When no one is watching, you are driven by what you expect of yourself.”

~Ralph S. Marston, Jr.

Happy Easter - April 21, 2019

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

~ Edith Wharton

Thought of the Week: April 14, 2019

"Maturity is the ability to stick with a job until it's finished; the ability to do a job without being supervised; the ability to carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even."

~ Abigail Van Buren (AKA "Dear Abby")

Thought of the Week: April 7, 2019

“If you want your words to truly connect, be a giver, not a taker. Givers share out of love and overflow. Takers only share because they expect something in return.”

~ John Maxwell

Thought of the Week: March 31, 2019

“A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.”

~ Rick Warren

Thought of the Week: March 24, 2019

“If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done.”

~Norman Vincent Peale

Thought of the Week: March 17, 2019

“Two Paths: easy now, hard and worse later. Hard now, easy...and better, later.”

~ Dr Henry Cloud

Thought of the Week: March 10, 2019

“Be a good listener; Your ears will never get you in trouble.”

~ Frank Tyger

Thought of the Week: March 3, 2019

“Fail fast and fail cheap”

                                                ~ Jason Wilson

Thought of the Week: February 24, 2019

“Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”

~ Dale Carnegie

Thought of the Week: February 17, 2019

“Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

~ John F. Kennedy (U.S. President)

Thought of the Week: February 10, 2019

“Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness.”

~ Theodore M. Burton

Thought of the Week: February 3, 2019

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply.  Wishing is not enough; we must do.”

                              ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Thought of the Week: January 27, 2019

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”

~ Warren Buffett

Thought of the Week: January 20, 2019

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

                                ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Thought of the Week: January 13, 2019

“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

~Joseph Campbell

Thought of the Week: January 6, 2019

“I think in terms of the day’s resolution, not the years.”

~ Henry Moore