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Life…and Other Plans
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans." – John Lennon, English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beetles (1940-1980) Who among us hasn’t had a different sort of life in mind? If we’re like most people, where we find ourselves today [...]
Permission to Shine
"As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." – Nelson Mandela, South African Black Nationalist leader and statesman, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for his efforts to end apartheid, elected President of South Africa in 1994 to 1999 (born 1918) Let’s be clear about [...]
Live the Life You Imagine
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." – Henry David Thoreau, American author, poet, essayist, philosopher, historian, best-known as the author of Walden (1817-1862) Now that we’re in recovery, it’s time to think about something that’s very important to our continuing ability to make progress, to have hopes, [...]
Where Inspiration Comes From
"Inspiration exists but it has to find us working." – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor, co-founder of Cubism, recognized as one of the most influential modernists artists of the 20th century (1881-1973) If we’re sitting around waiting for inspiration to strike us, it’s likely that we’ll be sitting a long time. That’s not a [...]
Dream – And Then, Do
"It may be that those who do most, dream most." – Stephen Leacock, English-born Canadian writer, humorist, political scientist and teacher (1869-1944) Are we stuck at a certain plateau in our recovery? Does it seem as if we’re treading water, not so much sinking but not making any headway, either? Could it be that we [...]
