"If a man honestly seeks to live his best at all times, that determination is visible in every moment of his living, no trifle in his life can be too insignificant to reflect his principle of living. The sun illuminates and beautifies a fallen leaf by the roadside as impartially as a towering mountain peak …
Tag: Life Lessons
Failure as a Success IV
Your book of life will rightly contain a number of interesting and diverse chapters. Some lives are filled with more dramatic episodes of change than others, but no matter how you look at it, change is an inevitable part of life. My own life has moved through a number of distinct phases: my childhood, adolescence, …
Failure as a Success I
Continuing our elaboration on William George Jordan's brilliant book, "The Majesty of Calmness," I would like to turn now to consider the nature of failure and success. To begin with, life is full of both, so you are wise to develop a strategy for the creative handling of either as a means of ensuring continual …
Problem Solving 101
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." ~ Albert Einstein My riding lessons are a constant source of inspiration and realization for me and I've found that lesson learned in the ring translate into valuable principles for more effective living. The most recent realization came as a …
Magical Life Lessons
Today's consideration comes to us thanks to a quarter, an HVAC register and two little boys. My sons were performing magic tricks this weekend, one of which involved the use of one of each of my son's quarters. This was not a run-of-the-mill trick, for the goal was to create a new quarter, not make …
Gregory Hake 