10 Great Ideas from Little Women Money and possessions do not equate to happiness. Count your blessings and be grateful for what you have in life. Conceit spoils the finest genius. Don’t let the sun go down upon your anger; forgive each other, help each other, and begin again tomorrow. When you’re feeling down, do something good for another. Pursue your own path in life, not merely what society and others expect from you. Teamwork allows you to get more done in less time. Have a purpose in life because it will keep you moving forward. So dream big dreams and have a sense of where you are going in life. Family is … [Read more...]
Why You Must Read Broadly – Tip 4
May 14, 2012 by
Reading broadly introduces diversity into your life. Have you ever read an intriguing article and wondered how the writer came up with the idea? Have you ever read a book that connects two very different subject matters in a unique way? Have you ever transported one idea from one industry to another to resolve a pesky challenge? Have you ever read something that was so incredulous or even whimsical that it gave you the courage to try to do something that once seemed impossible? Reading broadly introduces diverse types of information into your life. It helps you to become bolder in your work and life. A few months ago, I read the … [Read more...]
Mentor Yourself: Profile of Wisdom – Thomas Carlyle, British Historian, Essayist and Leading Social Critic of Victorian England
March 28, 2012 by
Mentor Yourself: Thomas Carlyle, British Historian, Essayist and Leading Social Critic of Victorian England “Thomas Carlyle, the nineteenth-century British historian and essayist believed that leaders shape and determine history.... was convinced that “history is the biography of great men,” the greatest of them being kings. The very word king, Carlyle contended, derives from the ancient word Can-ning, which means “Able-man” (although his etymology can be disputed). In Carlyle’s view, the Ablemen (and Ablewomen) of the human species direct the course of history and determine humanity’s destiny.” New Dictionary of the … [Read more...]
The Invisible Mentor Week in Review
September 3, 2011 by
This is what we talked about on The Invisible Mentor Blog this week: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Essayist, Poet and Lecturer and Interview with Tina Brillinger. Mondays at the Salon In “The Secrets of Creative Problem Solving” Otto Schmidt presents a simple methodology for problem solving, which beautifully ties in with Graham Wallas’ Creativity Model. The Secrets of Creative Problem Solving Booked on Tuesdays The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë is an early feminist work. It is an important work because it was written in the Victorian age, and for a woman to defend … [Read more...]
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