Continual Education – go to the website  www.Ted.com –   There is so much here, it is remarkable.  Use the search box and key words. Once again, Shelley sent me here for my continued education.

Most business people who fail, simply give up the fight too early. If you have thought it through, made a plan, built flexibility  into the plan and can be persistent – you should be successful enough to determine if you really want it.  (be careful, you may dislike what you created, be careful of that)

Failure # 3  – mistakes or failures are very often the best teaching tools out there.  By reaching out of the comfort zone there is freedom.

Take responsibility for the failure, take responsibility for yourself and your actions – – make no grand excuses, it gives your power away.

Failure is usually self inflicted  –   this is why it always pays to think first and act second. sometimes called “operator error”

Quoted –  This used to happen frequently, years ago.  It is happening again and I am enjoying it.  Thanksgiving week 2013. “I believe that is #16 ”  –  I was told.   A quick grin came across my face and their face.  Then a 3rd person smiled also. It is wonderful, when the small handful of your…

9a – Think first – then act –  Once you act, go swiftly and strongly.  Go big, all in.

28.  A very important phrase:    “I appreciate what you have done”,  …  taking a person for granted, their kindness, their time, their energy and their work. I am not always good at this. But I work at it.

33.     Ethel Bodie Mason, the wily New York sage, said it best – “Everything in Moderation” My grandmother, who lived to be in her 90’s. (Try this for perspective – oil lamps to gas lamps to electricity  or  horses in the streets, to steam cars, to motor cars, to planes to jet travel.  All in…