Category: <span>Theories</span>

Failure –

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


Quoted –

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

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


#28 important phrase

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 – the ny sage …

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…


Alstead #3

… 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 – not sure?

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 – learn & teach

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 Mentor

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

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