Blog entry
October 2022
October Thought of the Month
"Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else."
~ Judy Garland
In an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy tells her friend Willow that Halloween is the one day when you can be whoever you aren't. But that isn't exactly true. Every day of our lives we play roles to fit in, wearing a different mask for each situation. We are taught from childhood to be what people expect us to be, in some cases demand that we be.
September 2022
September Thought of the Month
"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."
~ Cecil Beaton
August 2022
August Thought of the Month
"You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life."
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
July 2022
July Thought of the Month
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."
~ Henry Ward Beecher
May 2022
May Thought of the Month
"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door."
~ Kyle Chandler
Who remembers the old saying "God helps those who help themselves"? To me that means the good luck, right place right time moments — whatever you want to call it — in life will not just happen. We play as important a role in our successes as chance.
April 2022
April Thought of the Month
"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit."
~ Conrad Hilton
March 2022
March Thought of the Month
"I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up."
~ Beverly Sills
Intentionally or not, there will be people in our lives who limit us. We see it in our movies and books.The villains who do their best to stop the heroes. Well meaning (or not) friends and family who discourage the main character from taking the risks that could lead to great rewards. The evil boss who sabotages or steals the work of an employee.
February 2022
February Thought for the Month
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
~ Confucius
January 2022
January Thought of the Month
"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."
~ C.S. Lewis
Who hasn't ended a year, a month, or even a work day wondering where the time went? I don't remember thinking that when I was a child, except when summer was ending and school about to start. It's all a matter of perception because time itself moves at the same steady pace it always has. We have crammed so much into our days that we've lost control of our time.
