“If your parents ever measured you as a child, they had you stand against a wall, and made a little pencil mark on the wall to show your growth. They did not measure you against your brother, or the neighbor’s kids, or kids on TV. When you measure your growth…
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
Leo Tolstoy
The past 48 hours have been some of the longest and most surreal of my life. (*I wrote this on December…
“The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.”
Bennett Cerf
Think back over your day yesterday. Did you laugh? Do you even remember if there were moments of levity and joy that created an opportunity to laugh out loud?
If the answer is…
“Spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself and a little less time trying to impress people.”
The Breakfast Club
This quote reminds me of the time I heard Jim Collins talk about his work with Peter Drucker. Jim shared that after working together for a few…
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
E. F. Schumacher
Today’s quote reminds me of a post from a few weeks ago that you can find here.
fThe burden…
“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”
Bertolt Brecht
One thing we must all accept in life is that nothing stays the same. Change is both inevitable and constant. …
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”
Benjamin Disraeli
Revealing to someone else their own riches is akin to creating and unlocking the secret of the compound interest rates in another person’s life.
Helping someone discover…
“Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.”
Dale Carnegie
As a young child, I can vividly remember having my right thumb slammed in a door when I was six or seven years…
“When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take — choose the bolder.”
W.J. Slim
What is the downside of bolder action? If the choices are genuinely even, then the risk/reward for each should be the same. …
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly…
Dusty Holcomb
I’m a lifelong learner, a student of leadership and and a servant of others. My personal mission in life is to enable success in others. www.dustyholcomb.com
