Only the truth

'If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything else.'

-Anonymous

The secret of achieving more with less

'By identifying what you're good at, then doing more of it, success will come easily.'

- Richard Koch

Living with change

'People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about & what you value.'

- Stephen Covey

Think before you speak

'A closed mouth gathers no feet.'

- Anonymous

Self-help material on personal development

'To consciously decide what we will think, not allowing genes or environment or fate to determine our path - this is the essence of self-help.'

- Tom Butler-Bowdon

Persuasion

'If you must persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.'

- Benjamin Franklin

Not the end of the world

'Every exit is an entrance somewhere else'

- Tom Stoppard

Being 'straightforward', being 'honest'...

'... doesn't mean you're licenced to be rude or tactless at the expense of someone else. Basic decency always overrules in this circumstance.'

- Anonymous

Change

'Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self, will require not just small adjustments in your way of living & thinking, but a full-on metamorphosis.'

- Martha Beck

Heart on sleeve

'The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.'

- Voltaire

Vision

'In fact, with ... a focus on problems, you would experience anxiety which generates negative stress; whereas if the focus is on "possibilities" with a clear vision, you will experience more positive energy ... To ensure such a level of peak performance, then, you need to have , first, a vision that is a very clear image of what your work & life is about.'

- Jagdish Parikh

Change the record

'Whose opinions, thoughts & beliefs are stuck in your mind? If they're not yours & they're of no value to you, don't hold onto them. You're a grown-up now. You can think your own thoughts. You can choose what to give room to. It doesn't matter how long some stuff has been there. If it's toxic, get rid of it.'

- Fiona Harrold

Networking

'Treat everyone you meet today with respect. They might be tomorrow's friends or business contacts.'

- Anonymous

Weekly inventory

'Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.'

- Dale Carnegie

Meaning of life

'He who has a WHY to live can bear with almost any HOW.'

- Nietzche

Education

'The great aim of education, is not knowledge but action.'

- Herbert Spencer

Health

'Let food be your medicine...'

- Hippocrates (The Father of Medicine) 400BC

Maintaining friendship

'It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.'

- Colette (1873-1954)

My New Year's resolutions

1. Spend more time with friends & family.

2. Live a healthier lifestyle.

3. Do what has to be done every day & do it to the best of my ability.

4. Think before I speak or act.

5. Make a point to be more caring & kinder, patient & forgiving.

6.To remember that the glass is always half full.

7. Not to let time slip through my fingers.

8. Count my blessings when the going gets tough.

2007

MAY YOU ENJOY GOOD HEALTH, PEACE, PROSPERITY
& MAY YOU SUCCEED IN EVERYTHING YOU DO.

WHATEVER MAY COME OUR WAY THIS YEAR, MAY WE RISE ABOVE IT ALL.

BEST WISHES FOR 2007!

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