Thoughts 01MAR2011

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects - Arnold H Glasgow
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to - Harry Emerson Fosdick
The best way to teach people is by telling a story - Kenneth Blanchard

Thoughts 28FEB2011

I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good, either - Author Unknown
Hearts will never be made practical until they are made unbreakable - Tinman from the Wizard of Oz
It has been proven that writing your thoughts out is beneficial to your healing - Mike Landis

Thoughts 25FEB2011

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it - Pablo Picasso
When you cannot make up your mind which of the two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder - William Joseph Slim
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly - Robert F Kennedy

Thoughts 24FEB2011

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree - Jim Rohn
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time - Sam Walton
Retirement, a time to enjoy all the things you never had time to do when you worked - Catherine Pulsifer

Thoughts 23FEB2011

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? - Benjamin Disraeli
Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them - Washington Irving
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month - Theodore Roosevelt

Thoughts 22FEB2011

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes - Benjamin Disraeli
God is closest to those with broken hearts - Jewish Proverb
Men are born to succeed, not fail - Henry David Thoreau

Thoughts 18FEB2011

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom - Sam Walton
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window - Peter F. Drucker
Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle - Kenneth Blanchard

Thought 17FEB2011

Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment - this day - is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day - each moment of this day - a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity
Dan Custer
Be the change that you want to see in the world - Mohandas Gandhi

Thoughts 16FEB2011

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself - Lucille Ball
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist - J P Getty
When your heart is broken it is hard to move forward, but you have to focus on all the other blessings in your life - C Pulsifer

Thoughts 14FEB2011

A friend is what the heart needs all the time - Henry van Dyke
One fails forward toward success - Charles F Kettering
The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it - Mal Pancoast

Thoughts 11FEB2011

Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it - Gene Perret
We have no porch, no rocking chair, and no time. My biggest need is a calendar because there are so many things to do. Now I encourage people to retire, the younger the better - Maurice Musholt
An eye for an eye makes us all blind - Mohandas Gandhi

Thoughts 10FEB2011

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression more readily taken - Plato
Retirement : It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese - Gene Perret
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune - Walt Whitman (got this from Shamsiah Muhzir House)

Thoughts 09FEB2011

When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard", I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?' - Sydney J. Harris
If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives - Vince Lombardi
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up - Vince Lombardi

Thought 08FEB2011

ABOUT TEAMWORK
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I". And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I". They don't think "I". They think "We"; they think "Team". They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "We" gets the credit ... This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done - Peter Drucker
Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success - Robert Orben

Thoughts 07FEB2011

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference - Tom Brokaw
The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings - Dave Weinbaum
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small - Lao-Tzu

Thoughts 02FEB2011

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" - Sydney J. Harris
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off - Abe Lemons
Retirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it - Abigail Charleson