Personal Development
‘Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ~ Viktor Frankl
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Now
From Readings for Young Men, Merchants, and Men of Business, 1859 “Now” is the constant syllable ticking from the clock of Time. “Now” is the watchword of the wise. “Now” is on the banner of the prudent. Let us keep this little word always in our mind; and, whenever anything presents itself to us in Continue reading
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Dead Work
From Self-Culture Through the Vocation, 1914 By Edward Howard Griggs There is an almost universal optical illusion with reference to work: each of us is fully conscious of the dead work in his own calling, because he must fulfill It; with the tasks of others, he sees only the finished product. Thus each is inclined Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Bishop Richard Cumberland
“It is better to wear out than to rust out.” ~Bishop Richard Cumberland Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Mark Twain
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” ~Mark Twain Continue reading
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Opportunity
This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream:– There spread a cloud of dust along a plain; And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged A furious battle, and men yelled, and swords Shocked upon swords and shields. A prince’s banner Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes. A craven hung along the battle’s edge, Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~David O. McKay
“Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success.” ~David O. McKay Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~C.S. Lewis
“[In the Psalms] I find an experience fully God-centered, asking of God no gift more urgently than His presence, the gift of Himself, joyous to the highest degree, and unmistakably real.” ~C.S. Lewis Continue reading
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Possibilities In Spare Moments
Editor’s Note: This excerpt is from Orison Swett Marden’s 1894, Pushing To The Front, but inspired from an amazing AOM post based on the same chapter. On the floor of the gold-working room, in the United States Mint at Philadelphia, there is a wooden lattice-work which is taken up when the floor is swept, and the Continue reading
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