Showing posts with label Plan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Plan. Show all posts

Saturday, January 3, 2015

Be Done With It

Library of Congress Model
U.S. Botanical Gardens
December 2014

Several times a day, sit down and plan your actions for the next few hours. Ask yourself what impulse triggers may lie in your path and visualize yourself walking by them, nodding and smiling and saying, "No thank you."
(Cindy Glovinsky, Making Peace With The Things In Your Life, p. 158)

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson in Night Light by Amy E. Dean, 17 April)

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson in The Little Book Of Virtues, 3 January)
3 January 2015

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

I'd Better Do This

Artwork at Washington, DC Convention Center
Photo by: Mr. Dickie

I will think about one thing I really want to do and write down what I need to do to accomplish it.

To help achieve it, I'll then share this plan with another.
(Amy E. Dean, Night Light, 26 March)

Dick Henthorn
2 September 2014

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Goal


  • Keep in mind the goal you are striving for, the good life you are trying to attain.
  • Do not let little things divert you from the path.
  • Do not be overcome by the small trials and vexations of each day.
  • Try to see the purpose and plan to which all is leading.

(Twenty-Four Hours A Day, 23 August)
23 August 2012

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

It Is, What It Is

People are who they are and do what they do whether or not you like it or agree with them. (Iyanla Vanzant, Until today! 4 March)

(Photo: Mr. Dickie - Doctor's Hospital in Greenbelt, MD)

Plan as you like and arrange everything as best you can, yet you will always encounter some suffering whether you want to or not. (Thomas 'A Kempis, The Imitation Of Christ, Book 2, Chapter 12, p. 79) 11 April 2012


Thursday, July 22, 2010

Have A Plan


It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it. (Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Staying On The Path, p. 120)

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I took a short walk yesterday. On one street there are at least four cars without tags sitting in driveways. One is in a bag. Just around the corner there is another house with three untagged cars sitting beside the house. A couple of houses down the street there is a pickup truck full of junk parked on the street. This truck has valid tags, but it is never driven. If you live in a county that stays on top of this kind of situation, give thanks.

The Obama administration was embarrassed by over-reacting to some video clips of a speech made some time ago. The African-American lady who made the speech appeared to be racist because the clips were shown out of context. In a blatant case of "reverse racism" the White House demanded that the Secretary of Agriculture ask her to resign. He got in a hurry and forced her to resign without allowing her an opportunity to defend herself. Later, when the entire speech was aired and the lady was interviewed it became apparent that the administration had over reacted, turning a molehill into a mountain. In a way it is comical that the first black president is demanding black people to resign from their jobs.

Melva and members of her quilting class are getting together for lunch today. They chose Thursday because Melva doesn't work on that day anymore.

On the 19th I made the 600th posting to my Henthorn Genealogy News blog. I wonder how often someone finds all of those pages. It's somewhat difficult to avoid posting the same information twice. I try to discipline myself to take the time to check what's already posted. My memory isn't good enough to allow me to recall what's already available. It's wonderful that Google provides this free space where I can share the information I've accumulated over the years. I like being able to quickly and easily post information I want to share. Much of what I post probably isn't available anywhere else.

I bought three HP thumb drives on sale at Staples. I don't think my old computer will recognize them. Bummer!

This morning I finished reading "Staying On The Path," by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer. Each page of the book has from one to three quotations from the speeches and writings of Dr. Dyer. You can open the book at random to any page and find at least one thought provoking item. I enjoyed reading the book. It was fifty-cents, well spent.

Mr. Dickie
22/Jul/2010 8:58