Email me: lylewisdom@gmail.com

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Dinner Time?

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner - Samuel Johnson


Do you eat to live or live to eat?

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Your Mission

Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail. - Seth Godin


Perhaps you should pay more attention to Mission Statements than to Business Plans.



Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Light Stuck In Dark

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. - Arlo Guthrie


Your troubles always look better if you have something worse to compare.

Monday, November 7, 2011

Change

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. - Charles R. Swindoll


Change "we" to "I"; change "our" to "my".

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Rank

Managers want authority. Leaders take responsibility. - Seth Godin


The difference between a Drill Sargent and a General.



Saturday, November 5, 2011

The Worst Loneliness

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. - Mark Twain


You may not want to, and it may be difficult, but you can change yourself.

Friday, November 4, 2011

No Problem

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time. - Shimon Peres


O.K.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Honorable

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. - Aristotle


Strive to be honorable, not honored.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Vacations

Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a most pitiable condition. - David Swing


Think of this when planning for retirement.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

His Choice

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph. - Ken Kesey


A flash rather than grounded in bedrock.