I’ve had this article for ten years, given by a friend. The author is unknown. Here it is in it’s entirety:
The question remains, despite all the work and inquiry of the researchers discussed in this column and countless others: How can we build committed, competent people and workforces?
I received the following as a handout at a class I attended; the author is unknown. Because these reflections give me solace, I am sharing them.
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time information school called life. Each day in this school you will have opportunities to learn lessons. You may like the lessons, or you may think they are irrelevant or stupid.
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error, of experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately work.
4. A lesson is repeated until learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
6. There is not better than here.When your there has become here, you will simply obtain another there that will again look better than here.
7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. Your answers lie inside you. The answers to life’s questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10. You will forget all this.
jeff here again. How was that for the first installment of “Too Long Tuesday”?
There’s been a very calculated effort to make all five blogs comply with a “short post” challenge.
It was a simple test to see what would happen. What happened?
Website traffic spiked. Thank you everyone, for your interest. While the real reason I blog so much is selfish, it’s actually an amazing joy to think others may benefit as much as me and my Family.
This leads to today’s title, Too Long Tuesday. It seems an occasional long post may work, without overwhelming me or you.
Personally, and generally speaking, long blog posts bore me. No offense to those who write them. Have written a fair number myself, but mostly in the early days.
Time marches on, and so has this post. See ya tomorrow at Too Long Tuesday?
It is ridiculous. To think that a bunch of guys with ordinary lives, doing ordinary jobs, would someday be riding around in a big tour bus, makin’ that easy money:
My neighbor served in Vietnam as a “Gunner“. He operated the machine gun with the long chain of bullets that a second person had to constantly feed it. He’s one of the sweetest, most gracious, and most caring men on the planet.
He most likely is showing the signs of Agent Orange.
This is not the way his life was supposed to go. He put his life on the line, for years, so that you and I can walk around in Peace.
So, may I be unpolitically correct and ask you to pray for our troops, even the ones who are your retired neighbors?
Unpolitically correct. Brought to you courtesy, of the Red, White and Blue. Click here to watch The Angry American, by Toby Keith.
But you can try. Not every post I write is gonna make your day. Yet I write with that intent.
Walt Disney said, “Aim for perfection, settle for excellence”.
Vince Lombardi said, “In chasing perfection, we will catch excellence”.
jeff noel said, “If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough”.
Better to try and fail, than not try at all. Being transparent on the Internet is a gutsy thing to do. Don’t believe it, you try. For those who get this and still follow, thank you.
For those critics out there, thank you. For the cynic, well, I forgive you. Carpe diem, jeff noel
