In Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters, leadership author John C. Maxwell describes the process of living an international life. Maxwell notes, “When you live each day…
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It took me a while to put a name to it, but I am getting close to a vocabulary for this phenomenon, as a…
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. – Lin Yutang The traditional “To-Do list” is a list of activities and tasks…
You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. – Zig Ziglar Self-interest is…
In What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful!, executive coach Marshall Goldsmith identifies fundamental problems that…
One of my favourite compliments to hear is, “You are Crazy”. Most of the time, the complimenters don’t say it as a compliment, but…
The difference between a coward and a hero is how you deal with fear. You decide to be a hero. Giannis: The Marvelous Journey…
The word Sonder was coined by John Koenig in 2012 as part of his project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, which aims to define neologisms for emotions that…
“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by…
Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what’s going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along. American Comedian and…
Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy — they’re given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if…
Err in the direction of kindness. George Saunders Group 88, professor of English and author of The New York Times best-seller Tenth of December delivered the following speech at The Syracuse…
“We can learn to live without the sick excitement, without the kick of having scores to settle.” American Writer, Kurt Vonnegut who is most famous for his darkly…
Texas native Matthew McConaughey, an Academy Award-winning actor, delivered a very inspiring and thought-provoking commencement speech to the 2015 graduating students of the University of Houston at TDECU…
Until you are broken you don’t know what you’re made of.—Ziad K. Abdelnour Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage…
What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.- Mark Twain A woman was waiting at an airport one night, with several long…
“There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.” – Jodi Picoult Happiness is an emotional response to an outcome; if you win,…
“If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a month…
A priority is something that you need to do more of, and you need to do sooner than later. According to Alfredo Pareto (Pareto Principle) -focusing attention on…
Your attitude determines your altitude, how far you go in life is determined by your outlook in life. Attitude (noun): a settled way of thinking or feeling about…
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” – Albert Einstein A lot of us talk a great deal, but talk…