“According to Darwin’s Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.” — Leon C. Megginson, Civilisation Past and Present, 1963
The thing that separates us humans from...
Friday, May 31, 2019
Art of work… ?
There was a painter named Peter Paul Rubens who found himself inundated with requests for paintings. To alleviate this, he created a system. He employed dozens of extremely talented painters, one specializing in robes, another in backgrounds, and so on. He created a vast production line in which a large number of canvases would be worked on at the same time.
When an important client would...
Thursday, May 30, 2019
Yes Face' Attitude
What you do when you don’t have to will determine what you’ll be when you can’t help it – William D. Hersey
In his book, The Grace Awakening, Charles Swindoll tells a story about Thomas Jefferson and a group of companions who were travelling across country on horseback. They came to a river which had left its banks because of a recent downpour. The swollen river had washed the bridge away....
The River and the Lion
"After the great rains, the lion was faced with crossing the river that had encircled him. Swimming was not in his nature, but it was either cross or die.
The lion roared and charged the river, almost drowning before he retreated. Many more times he attacked the water, and each time he failed to cross.
Exhausted, the lion lay down, and in his quietness he heard the river say, "Never...
Be like water, my friend
"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot,...
STORY that can change your life
In 1972, Jim Cathcart was working at the Little Rock, Arkansas Housing Authority, making $525 a month, with a new wife and baby at home, no college degree, no past successes, and not much hope for the foreseeable future.
One morning, he was sitting in his office listening to the radio, to a program called "Our Changing World" by Earl Nightingale, who was known as "the Dean of Personal...
Monday, May 27, 2019
Top 5 Regrets of the Dying
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For many years Bronnie Ware (a nurse by profession) worked in palliative care. Her patients were those who had gone home to die and shared special time and secrets of their life. She was with them for the last one month of their lives. The patients were...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Teaching the horse to fly
The sultan of
Persia had sentenced two men to death. One of them, knowing how much the
sultan loved his stallion, offered to teach the horse to fly within a year in
return for his life. The sultan, fancying himself as the rider of the
only flying horse in the world, agreed.
The other prisoner looked at his friend in disbelief. “You know horses don’t fly. ...