“Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Discipline
Posted in Lifelong Learning, Success, tagged Discipline, spirituality, Success, underwriting, Zen on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Your Calling
Posted in Lifelong Learning, Success, tagged calling, do what you love, Eric Clapton, JJ Cale, Michael Novak, Thomas Moore on March 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There’s a piece of scrap paper I’ve been carrying around with the following thoughts on it:Try many things. Find what you love and do that. Then figure out how to make a living doing it. Work is transformed when we change our attitudes towards work.
I didn’t write these words ( and my [...]
B as in Books – How to Read a Book a Week
Posted in Lifelong Learning, Success, tagged books, business success, Lifelong Learning, personal success, reading, self improvement on March 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“You will always have your brain with you (until that time when brain transplants are done and you may have someone else’s brain).”
Dale Dubin MD
There is some advice that has been around for a long time. Great ideas stick around. (BAD IDEAS stick around too, but that’s another story). Today’s post is about [...]