Deciding Who You Are

Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do. It's a decision about Who You Are. When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes. You begin to see life in a new way. All events, occurrences, and situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do. - Neale Donald Walsch



Be sure that Who You Are is the same as Who You Would Like To Be.

Evil vs. Freedom

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. - Calvin Coolidge



Some folks use repressing evil as an excuse for more limits on freedom. Limits on freedom are limits on doing good. Remember that the next time you go to vote.

Death from Negativity

Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies. - St. Augustine



Negative feelings of all kinds hurt yourself not others.

Wasted Reasoning

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift



If someone has a belief taken on faith then don't waste your time reasoning with them.

Thanks for the Tractor

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. - Albert Einstein



Every time I finish a task made infinitely easier with my tractor I shut it off and say to myself "Thank you Mr. Massey. Thank you Mr. Ferguson."

Others Opinion

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



You can either change the way you judge yourself or accept the opinion of others.

Charming Question

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. - Albert Camus



I guess that is why I've never been charming - I just ask the question.

No Final Defeats

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. - F. Scott Fitzgerald



A defeat is just a speed-bump; the sooner you get over it the sooner you can get back up to speed.

Rated Thinking

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. - AA Milne

Ignore what others are doing most of the time.

Profitable Failure

View the knowledge from something that failed as the profit from that effort. - John L Herman



We all know about learning from out mistakes but to view that knowledge as "profit" might make you more adventurous.