Here are 13 quotes to ponder, and pick you up if the excessive heat has been slowing you down. “If you want to make it happen, just go out and do it.” Gabriel Draven “Small steps daily will take you further ahead of people with lofty goals who do nothing.” Chris Widener “Have a strategy on how you do things [and] execute the strategy with passion.” Purdy Crawford “The loss of a client is not necessarily a negative. New business opportunities constantly arise and the loss of a client may in fact allow you to accept new business.” Oliver Campbell “When you’re starting off, it takes ten times more energy than you … [Read more...]
21 Quotes to Inspire you in 2012
January 6, 2012 by
I love a good quote because it makes me think. I have been collecting quotes for several years now, but a few years ago it struck me that because I read so much, I should be extracting quotes from the books I read. Below are 21 quotes that I like and some of them I pulled directly from books I read, so the only place you’ll see them is if you read the books they came from. “Within each successful person is an ordinary person who found the courage to act – to face the big challenges and make their dreams come true.” Jinny S. Ditzler, Your Best Year Yet! “No matter what you want in life, you can get it by building rapport. If … [Read more...]
12 Blog Posts People are Reading on The Invisible Mentor
January 5, 2012 by
Over the past month, I have been paying close attention to the analytics for The Invisible Mentor blog, and I am sometimes amazed by what landed readers on the site. Today, I want to highlight some of the posts that landed people on the site from search engines. Next week we’ll return to the regular schedule: Adventures in Learning, Booked for Mentoring, Wisdom of Life and the Invisible Mentor Interviews. Einstein Distraction Index: A Method of Deep Focus Review: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, Translated by Edward Fitzgerald Summary of A Technique for Producing Great Ideas by James Webb Young 2011 Interviews for … [Read more...]
A Collection of 10 Book Reviews for 2010
December 21, 2010 by
Where has the 2010 gone? As subscribers to this blog already know, reading is one of life's simple joy for me. I love to snuggle up with a good book. Science fiction is not a genre that I really like so I have been forcing myself to read more because I think it's important to stretch myself. I ask you all the time to do so, so it's important for me to follow the advice that I dispense. Next on my science fiction reading list is the Foundation Trilogy: Foundation, Second Foundation and Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov. Here are 10 book reviews that I did this year: Innovate The Steve Jobs Way Review: Briefcase Essentials by Susan … [Read more...]
Do you love what you do?
August 6, 2009 by
Image via Wikipedia "Work is love made visible," says Kahlil Gibran. Reflect on that quote again for a minute. Now read the poem Work below and reflect on it. What does the poem mean to you? What emotions do you feel? How do you feel about Gibran's quote? Work by Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) Let me but do my work from day to day, In field or forest, at the desk or loom, In roaring market-place or tranquil room; Let me but find it in heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, “This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way.” Then … [Read more...]
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