- If you were just one step away from reaching your goal, would you take that step? How do you know, right now, that you’re not?
- What a shame it would be to stop making the effort, when just a little bit more would make it all worthwhile. What a shame it would be to have taken all those steps, only to miss the very last one.
- The next step you take may very well be the one that makes all the others count. You owe it to yourself, and the efforts you’ve made, to keep going.
- No, the next step may not get you there. Yet what about the one after that? If you keep moving ahead, a little at a time, you will indeed arrive. When you take that final, triumphant step, you’ll be so very thankful you persevered.
- At some point success is just one step away. Keep going and you’ll be there.
One step away
October 18, 2007 at 5:11 am (Bread for the Road)
Tags: effort, success
Must do
October 18, 2007 at 5:07 am (Bread for the Road)
Tags: task, work
- In each task that must be done, there is opportunity. See the task not as a burden, but as an encouragement to be fully alive and effective.
- The real burden would be the inability to do anything. No task is a burden, but is instead the chance to express your own aliveness.
- Does the work seem dreary, unimaginative, tedious or boring? That’s mainly because your attitude makes it so.
- See what happens when you start by being thankful for the opportunity to do it. Your genuine gratitude will help you to see the positive value.
- When the things you must do become things you want to do, it can transform your life. Each moment takes on more meaning; each effort brings greater and greater reward.
- Rather than fighting and forcing yourself to do what must be done, let go of your resistance and allow yourself to accomplish. Let what you must, become what you want, and watch yourself begin to soar.
Slow down
October 17, 2007 at 7:57 am (Bread for the Road)
Tags: journey, life, race
- Life is not a race. It is a journey.
- Getting someplace first, before anyone else, has very little real and lasting meaning. Seek instead to encourage others to come along, and you’ll find the journey much more fulfilling.
- When you hurry through each moment, you miss out on the richness that could be yours. Take the time to live, to experience where you are, rather than being so obsessed with getting to the next checkpoint.
- When you stop demanding to have it all now, you’ll discover that you have plenty already. Learn to experience joy where you are, and you’ll experience it in abundance.
- Yes, it can be wonderfully exhilarating when life is moving quickly. But do not move so quickly that speed becomes your only experience, for there is so much more to enjoy.
- The terrain of life is filled with wonderful and astounding detail. Slow down and take in its richness.
http://www.ezsoftech.com/stories/default.asp
One step away
October 17, 2007 at 7:53 am (Bread for the Road, Management)
Tags: effort, one step, story
- If you were just one step away from reaching your goal, would you take that step? How do you know, right now, that you’re not?
- What a shame it would be to stop making the effort, when just a little bit more would make it all worthwhile. What a shame it would be to have taken all those steps, only to miss the very last one.
- The next step you take may very well be the one that makes all the others count. You owe it to yourself, and the efforts you’ve made, to keep going.
- No, the next step may not get you there. Yet what about the one after that? If you keep moving ahead, a little at a time, you will indeed arrive. When you take that final, triumphant step, you’ll be so very thankful you persevered.
- At some point success is just one step away. Keep going and you’ll be there.
http://www.ezsoftech.com/stories/default.asp
You are what you think!
October 17, 2007 at 7:51 am (Bread for the Road, Management)
Tags: story, thinking
- Your inner thoughts can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.
- What you impress upon your mind, you’ll inevitably become. It’s a psychological law that whatever you desire to accomplish you must first impress upon your subconscious mind.
- Relentless, repetitive self talk will change your self image. You’ll affect your subconscious mind with verbal repetition. Constant repetition carries conviction.
- When you change your values you’ll change your behavior. Start thinking of yourself as becoming the person you want to be. Self suggestion will make you the master of yourself.
- If you believe you can, you can.
- You can become whatever you want to be.
http://www.ezsoftech.com/stories/default.asp
The Road to Success is not straight
October 17, 2007 at 7:45 am (Bread for the Road, Management)
Tags: road, story, success
There is a curve called failure, a loop called confusion, speed bumps called friends, caution lights called family, and you will have flats called jobs.
But, if you have a spare called determination, an engine called perseverance, insurance called faith, and a driver called God, you will make it to a place called success!
http://www.ezsoftech.com/stories/default.asp
Ways to Get Along Better
October 11, 2007 at 5:24 am (Bread for the Road)
Tags: human relations
1. Before you say anything to anyone, ask yourself three questions:1) is it true? 2) is it kind? 3) is it necessary?
2. Make promises sparingly and keep them faithfully.
3. Never miss an opportunity to compliment or say something encouraging.
4. Refuse to talk negatively about others and don’t listen when others do.
5. Have a forgiving view of people. Believe that most people are
doing the best they can.
6. Keep an open mind; discuss, don’t argue.
7. Forget about counting to 10. Count to 1,000 before saying or doing
anything that could make matters worse.
8. Let your virtues speak for themselves.
9. If someone criticizes you, see if there is any truth to what he is
saying; if so, make changes.
10. Cultivate your sense of humor.
11. “Do not seek so much to be consoled, as to console; do not seek
so much to be understood as to understand; do not seek so much to
be loved as to love.”
Hope Health Letter, Vol. 46, No. 1, Men’s Life Lifeline (newsletter),
(Grand Rapids, Fall, 1995)
Ten Commandments of Human Relations
October 11, 2007 at 5:20 am (Bread for the Road, Management)
Tags: human relations
1. Speak to people. There is nothing as nice as a cheerful word of greeting.2. Smile at people. It takes seventy-two muscles to frown, only fourteen to smile.
3. Call people by name. Music to anyone’s ears is the sound of his/her own name.
4. Be friendly and helpful.
5. Be cordial. Speak and act as if everything you do is genuinely a pleasure, and if it isn’t, learn to make it so.
6. Be genuinely interested in people. You can like almost everybody if you try.
7. Be generous with praise, cautious with criticism.
8. Be considerate with the feelings of others. There are usually three sides to a controversy: yours, the other fellow’s, and the right one.
9. Be alert to serve. What counts most in life is what we do for others.
10. Add to this a good sense of humor, a big dose of patience, and a dash of humility, and you will be rewarded manifold through life.
WINNERS CREED
October 8, 2007 at 8:27 am (Bread for the Road)
Tags: creed, motto, winners
If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think you dare not, you don’t
If you’d like to win, but you think you cant,
It’s almost certain you wont.
Starfish
October 8, 2007 at 8:21 am (Bread for the Road)
Tags: helping, starfish
While walking along the beach, a man saw someone in the distance leaning down, picking something up and throwing it into the ocean.
As he came closer, he saw thousands of starfish the tide had thrown onto the beach. Unable to return to the ocean during low tide, the starfish were dying. He observed a young man picking up the starfish one by one and throwing them back into the water.
