You make the promise with the best of intents. When you keep the promise there are no problems, but when you can't it can hurt someone. Even minor broken promises can lead others to believe you either can't or won't keep your promise
Posts Tagged ‘ priorities ’
The Bad Series: Bad Financial Situation
It is a stressful situation when you find your finances upside down. Perhaps your job took a big pay decrease or your job disappeared. Maybe what you put money into to grow is suddenly worth a lot less. You could have thought things would get better, so you kept digging a financial hole. But no matter the case, now...
Annie Was Right
Tomorrow will be the day to do something big. Tomorrow you will spend time with those you love. Tomorrow you will start writing the great novel or musical piece. Tomorrow you will tell someone how special they are... tomorrow.... As Annie sings “Tomorrow is always a day a way” and that is the problem.
Listen To Your Body
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it. ~Elizabeth A. Behnke ~ Listen To Your Body The body can not talk, thus it is sometimes easy to ignore. This includes ignoring things the body tries to tell us by sending you signs and signals. Then after a...
Anyway ~ A Poem
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. ~ Aesop ~ Anyway People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are...
Heartprints ~ A Poem
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. ~ Ryunosuke Satoro ~ Whatever our hands touch - We leave fingerprints! On walls, on furniture On doorknobs, dishes, books. There’s no escape. As we touch we leave our identity. Wherever I go today Help me leave heartprints! Heartprints of compassion Of understanding and love. Heartprints of kindness And...
Managing your Time for Success
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. ~ Michael Althsuler ~ Learning how to manage your time can help you do more in less time. With a few time management skills you might be surprised at what you can get done in your day. It requires a little bit of review of your...
Where Does the Day Go?
Time is what we want most, but… what we use worst. ~ Willaim Penn ~ Where Does the Day Go? As the day comes to a close you wonder what happened to the day. It seemed to speed by and things you needed to do are left undone. You see others who seem able to do so much more...
Understanding Priorities
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. ~ Doris Lessing ~ Understanding Priorities This is an emergency! This needs attention right away! You drop everything, and work on something only to realize you dropped things with higher priorities to work on something that was not an emergency. Now you...
Choose to be Happy
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. ~James Openheim~ While it may seem some people have a bucket of happiness at all times, most have their bad days. You may be envious that they seem happy all the time, but everyone can learn how to be happy more often. Sometimes it...
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