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How to Create a Kick-Ass 2009: My Top 10 Favourite Timeless Tips
Published by Henrik Edberg January 9th, 2009 in Personal Positivity Blog.

I love this compilation of quotes in the context of our 2009 challenges and opportunities. Edberg adds much more insight in the original posting.

?You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.?
Mae West

1. Woody Allen on showing up.

?Eighty percent of success is showing up?

2. Nike on self-discipline.

?Just do it!?

3. Helen Keller on fear.

?Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.?

?Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature?. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.?

4. Kahlil Gibran on sorrow and joy.

?The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter?s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives? When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see in truth that you are weeping for that which has been your delight.?

5. Bruce Lee on not dividing.

?Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.?

6. Mark Twain on approving of yourself.

?A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.?

7. Epictetus on how you choose your emotions.

?It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.?

8. Samuel Beckett on failure.

?Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.?

9. Henry Ford on believing that you can.

?If you think you can do a thing or think you can?t do a thing, you?re right.?

10. Kristen Zambucka on reality and changing your world.

?Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every
man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us.
Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own.
The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all.
Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.?

I like this posting in the conext of all the facets of my life - family, work, associations, voluntarism, and spirituality. It's enough just to care and take action on that. People want to associate with people who care and share their passions.

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on January 09, 2009 (boomark / email).