Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go . . . You will find more happiness than you have ever known. (Amy R Raabe) Raabe continues: “Scatter bits of courtesy, watch them grow and grow. Gather buds of friendship; keep them till full-blown.” In a world of confusion...
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. (Henry Ward Beecher, 19th century American social reformer) Fitness seems to be one of the highest goals for modern man. Exercise equipment and strengthening programs are advertised continually,...
God created your face. You create your expression. (Church sign board) No matter how much we may dislike what we see in the mirror, there isn’t a whole lot we can do about the way we look. Cosmetics can do only so much, and surgery is often not a viable option. The...
Linda Takata was efficient, energetic, and enthusiastic. Everything and everyone at Lexus had to go through Linda, and I learned quickly this included me. If I or anyone else wandered away from the office without telling Linda where we were going, we had to put a...
You will break the bow if you keep it always bent. (Greek motto) Stress can be both helpful and harmful. When we put stress on our muscles (as in exercise), we strengthen them, but if we don’t relax them, they will cramp or do injury to us. When we face stress in life...
Don’t count the days; make the days count. (Muhammad Ali, late heavyweight boxing champion) Whether it’s counting the days until vacation, the last day of school, or the beginning of retirement, it really is a waste of time. Even counting the days of your illness,...
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. (Nelson Mandela, late South African anti-apartheid revolutionary) Too often we make decisions because of what we’re afraid might happen. The unknown sometimes stymies us so greatly that we can’t even choose what to...
Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there [what] has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God’s gift to us. (Donald Curtis, actor and religious leader) As adults, we sometimes lose the imagination that enlivened our lives as children. But if...
Bob McCurry was not my uncle, but we were second cousins. My grandmother worshipped him and considered him her second son. He was the best man in my parents’ wedding, and they both considered him a hero. When I got out of the Army in 1969, I received a job...
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th century American essayist, lecturer, and poet) Sometimes we become so absorbed in the routines of life that we can fall into the habit of doing what we do almost without thinking. The...
It takes two people to say a thing—a sayer and a sayee. The one is just as essential to any true saying as the other. (Samuel Butler, Victorian-era English author) Listening may be a lost art. With the ability to text and receive messages almost instantaneously, we’ve...
Political battles in the office have derailed many careers, and I was caught in the middle of doozy. To be fair to the men involved, I don’t believe it was a fight that Jim Perkins wanted, Bob McCurry expected, or Yuki Togo could have avoided. Yuki Togo,...