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Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day
“The Paradoxical Commandments”
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.
Love them anyway.
Do good anyway.
Succeed anyway.
Do good anyway.
Be honest and frank anyway.
Think big anyway.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
Build anyway.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have anyway.
– Kent M. Keith,
The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council
Five Minute Friday: Visit
Folks I feel like I have truly found my tribe. I’m linking up again this week with the fabulous Lisa-Jo Baker and the lovely writers of Five Minute Friday. Click on the button below for more details on what this challenge is all about and how you can participate.
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When my uncle’s wife was dying in the hospital, I went to see her. I knew it was going to be hard but I felt that it was something I needed to do. Because my experience with my mother and hospitals taught me that no matter how hard it might be for you to see someone in a hospital bed…you’re not the one in the hospital. So suck it up and go.
So I went with my sister to see her. It was actually a few weeks from my sister’s wedding and my aunt started talking about the wedding. She told my sister that she didn’t think she would make it to the wedding and then she started saying her goodbyes and I lost it. It was exactly what I was afraid was going to happen.
Where did this come from though? Hmmm, I am realizing that for me the word visit is associated with hospitals and sickness and sadness.
I never describe catching-up with a friend as “visiting”. I might say, I went to check so and so or I had a small lime with this one or we had dinner.
I never use visit.
STOP
9 Fingers
**Disclaimer: This post contains a graphic photo.**
I slammed my gate on my thumb last Wednesday and it literally popped like a cherry. As in pulp or flesh came out of the top of my busted thumb.
Yes. I almost passed out.
Busted thumb…6 days later.
The pain. The blood. The thought of it…still makes me queasy.
So how does this relate to my “one word”?
Well it has everything to do with it actually.
My one word for 2013 is TRUTH. Which means that this is what I will focus on in all areas of my life. Speaking, walking, writing my truth for 2013.
This busted thumb business proved false not one but TWO things I thought were true.
The first “truth” is that I can’t stand or handle the sight of blood. This “truth” of course ruined the promising career as a surgeon I once envisioned for myself. Ok, no that’s a lie…I never wanted to be a doctor. A marine biologist sure…but never a doctor. I didn’t grow up to be a marine biologist either.
But blood makes me queasy and my blood gushing out of my busted finger nearly had me out cold. But I survived.
So this lie I keep telling myself: That I cannot handle the sight of blood was proven to be just that.
It turns out folks…a glass of water was all that was needed to calm me down.
The pain however was another story…those required extra strength painkillers.
The second “truth” is that with a busted thumb…I would not be able to write…technically type.
HELLO!!!
I contemplated skipping this month’s “One Word” update, which I committed to write on the 15th of every month for the rest of the year.
I said to myself…it hurts, people will understand if you didn’t post anything. But even to my lazy, procrastination-loving ears…it was a lie.
I can write and I will write…with nine fingers…because I have to.
Look out for my next update on February 15th. To read updates from other bloggers click here!
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