Keeping up with this blog is harder than I thought. Something about wanting the posts to be well written and having little time to do everything makes it so much harder than I expected. I have plenty to talk about, but so little time with which to work with. Tomorrow at work I should have some free time to get to blogging, in the mean time, here is a video I found, this should keep you entertained until I find something worth posting on and which I can find the time to invest research into. On a side note, before you watch the video, consider this piece of advice: You will not always know what it is you are doing, however, it is imperative that in all situations, whether you know what you are doing or not, that you surround yourself with people that do know what they are doing. Something my dad always taught me. Dale Carnegie is the man, consider reading his books…
On to the video:
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February 9, 2009 at 12:32 am
Kathy
You know I’ve been reading your blog and I never ever comment but I just had to tell you that the piece of advice you gave from your dad was great. I loved that.
February 9, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Dad.
Thank you Kathy!! …and the story goes, when the entrepreneur that never finished high school but started the Holiday Inn chain was asked how he had become so successful, he answered, “because at least I was smart enough to surround myself with the proper individuals.”
Please do read How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, by Dale Carnegie. You will never be sorry!! It will change your entire perspective on life.
February 9, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Kathy
I actually just bought that book today on Amazon! What a coincidence that you tell me to buy it! Good thing I have a break coming in a few weeks from school to give me time to read something other than tax!
February 10, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Dad.
Ah, you will begin to understand the joy of practicing sanity!! I wish the owner of this blog would read it and put it into practice!!
February 16, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Dad.
Well, why not do what Pancho Villa did in Mexico, he realized that the economy was running out of cash so therefore he printed more money to pay for things!! little did he realize that, you had to back up the value with something, (gold,) which he obviously did not have, Nixon did away with that when he was President. Needless to say chaos followed!! Perhaps we should called the idiot, Pancho Obama!! The worst part of all this is that the money will ended up in the hands of idiots or drug addicts or ……!!
February 26, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Dad.
Reflection, a word that teaches us to go back in time and try to learn from all the challenges we have come across. Now remember, the key to the whole thing is to learn and adjust to what the future might hold. I believe in “learning experiences,” failures are merely things that for one reason or another, did not go our way at the time, however, rest assured that on the long run, it was, not only the best thing for us but the right one. The good Lord has interesting ways of picking what is right and what is wrong, even though we might not agree at the time and we suffer and keep saying, “but why me!” well, it is not about you, it is about what is best for you!! I will leave you with one thought to ponder over, maybe a bit off the wall but I like it!! “You are not what you think you are, but, what you think……..you are!” Also, “let he with no sins cast the first stone,” this one, for humans is one of the most difficult of all, but then again, the word human comes into play. What the future holds, only God knows. As I believe it was Socrates that said, after he was sentenced to death, “I to die and you to live, what is best only God knows!” God bless.
February 26, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Dad.
Here is a few from Socrates and I was correct, if you look at the last one. LEARN from them:
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
Socrates
– More quotations on: [Marriage]
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Socrates
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
Socrates
– More quotations on: [Jealousy]
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Socrates
– More quotations on: [Friendship]
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Socrates
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of – for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates
– More quotations on: [Reputation]
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Socrates
Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
Socrates
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates
– More quotations on: [Knowledge] [Ignorance]
The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
Socrates
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Socrates
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Socrates
– More quotations on: [Food]
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
– More quotations on: [Knowledge]
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Socrates, from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems
– More quotations on: [Food]
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Socrates, from Plutarch, Of Banishment
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates, In “Apology,” sct. 21, by Plato.
– More quotations on: [Inspiration] [Instinct]
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways – I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
– More quotations on: [Life]
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.
Socrates, quoted by Plato, ‘The Death of Socrates’
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways–I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.
Socrates, Quoted in: Plato’s Apology, sct. 42a. Last words of his speech to the court following the sentence of death imposed on him by the Athenians.