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…

… Over the course of time, some random weekends, 2 full growing seasons, we visited this “Honaleigh”.   Sometimes the visitors were known, other times the visitors were not.  It was always a surprise when we arrived, as to what we would find. The entry was now 600 feet in, not to the top yet, but…

25.  When you’re not sure of a question or an answer, ASK.    There’s no harm in clarification. There’s great harm in sounding like an idiot, after its to late.

5.  Practice what you preach –  learn, teach, help.  If you have had the thought, can act on thought, if it will do no harm and enhance yourself and others.  Go ahead.

4.   If you want to help yourself & make a huge impact on this earth spend time with a child … yours, a niece, nephew, the kid up the street.   Be a mentor.  

11.  Patience usually pays off, so does persistence.  Being a little lucky is even better.

#123  Busy and productive almost always bears fruit, sometimes the fruit is good, other times it just leaves a bad taste.  Go figure.