James Clear has written some excellent articles and his recent one in Entrepreneur on persistence has a valuable perspective which you should read. He writes: “How do creative geniuses come up with great ideas? They work and edit and rewrite and retry and pull out their genius through sheer force of will and perseverance. They …
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading …
S Gallery: Responsive jQuery Gallery Plugin with CSS3 Animations On Sunday July 20 the Ottawa Fury Football Club had its first game in TD Place setting a North American Soccer League (NASL) record with over 14,500 people in attendance. Click on a thumbnail picture in the gallery to enlarge and focus on it. A low …
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou(April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an american poet, civil rights activist, dancer, film producer, television producer, playwright, film director, author, actress, professor and mentor to Oprah Winfrey. More information …
Poster that was on the ceiling at my most recent Doctor appointment. Guess which were my top 2 choices.
My predictions for the 2014 Men’s Olympic hockey tournament. Tuesday February 18 Slovenia vs Austria –> Slovenia (already determined) Norway vs Russia –> Russia (already ahead) Latvia vs Switzerland –> Switzerland Slovakia vs Czech Republic –> Slovakia (will be a close toss up) Wednesday February 19 Sweden vs Slovenia –> Sweden Finland vs Russia –> …
The value of questions is explored in a day at the park.
“Nobody is gonna hit as hard as life, but it ain’t how hard you can hit. It’s how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. It’s how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning’s done.†Rocky Balboa (Sylvestor Stallone)(from the movie Rocky 6)
The motto of Sharp Innovation Solutions Inc. is to “Keep Moving Forward”. Over on the Blog of Impossible Things there is a quote by Martin Luther King Jr. to do that with whatever you have to work with.
The context for my October 2 “When you love someone…” speech was that at the previous Orléans Raconteurs toastmaster meeting we had a speech evaluation contest. For the evaluation competitors there was a test speaker who did a speech about his love for a falcon (I remembered the name as Avalon). The falcon was brought …