Nature has a way of transforming a dirty and drab world into a verdant garden each spring. Its capacity for renewal defies even the boldest imagination. Man has for ages sought to master nature, to subdue it with his intellect and to control it by means of his ingenuity. Whether his latest achievements are the …
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Your Own Weight
"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt One of the greatest challenges to any business manager, civic leader, teacher or parent …
My Message
"My life is my message." ~ Gandhi What is your message to the world? Not your message today, for the moment, but your message, the one that clothes your reason for being here. You broadcast a message every day, whether you are conscious of it or not, through your living. Whether or not your broadcast …
The Inclination of Expectation
March is the Month of Expectation by Emily Dickinson March is the Month of Expectation. The things we do not know - The Persons of prognostication Are coming now - We try to show becoming firmness - But pompous Joy Betrays us, as his first Betrothal Betrays a Boy. March is here, which means that …
The Wrong Drummer
"It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigour. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution." ~ Thomas Jefferson I must confess a hidden predilection for the agrarian ideal and more specifically, a nostalgia for the simple virtue …
Energy, Discipline, Spirit
Managing people, like training horses or parenting, is all about harnessing energy and teaching discipline, while preserving spirit. The best managers, like the best trainers, possess a remarkable capacity for empathy and their high expectations are never lowered by sympathy. I have no doubt that there is a marvelous spirit resident within each and every …
Mental Blocks
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face...do the thing you think you cannot do." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt While there is a world of difference between your actual limitations and limitations you've accepted for yourself that don't really exist, the two are identical …
Big Decisions
My sons, aged 5 and 6, had an interesting conversation at breakfast the other day. They got on the topic of thinking and feeling somehow (I came in part way through) and my youngest made the declaration "Daddy, feeling is definitely more important than thinking!" My oldest, who is as siblings often are wired completely …
Pulling on Both Oars
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." ~ e.e. cummings Rare is the person who is authentic. Almost every man strains to give the appearance of qualities and a temperament which he does not possess, all in an effort to gain the approbation of others he feels he needs to …
The True Meaning of Life
The true meaning of life is to imbue your life with meaning. Your life, despite your genetic inheritance, your socioeconomic endowment and the dumb or bad luck you’ve had over the years, did not come prepackaged like a cake mix to which the waters of time are added. That which you have - your genes, …
Gregory Hake 