Some thoughts on this life:
1) He who dies with the most toys...still dies. Work on collecting what you can take with you.
2) It's O.K. to play the game for a valued cause, as long as the game doesn't play you.
3) Life's problems are seldom solved by lowering our standards to match our behavior, but rather by raising our behavior to match our standards. The world will always look up to those who quietly walk their talk.
4) Problems are almost always less circumstance than perspective. Systems and circumstance will only change when people change how they look at them and then act accordingly.
5) Those who retain their perception of control over their actions and reactions, control their whole world. Those who seek to blame circumstance, others, even deity, lose control over even themselves.
6) Life happens. One of the greatest secrets ever to be learned is to not ask "Why'?", but to ask "What now?"
7) Now is the only moment we can directly influence. The past is gone, and the future is a blur; now is where it's at. Sorry are those that live life thinking today is some sort of rehearsal for tomorrow, or an afterthought of yesterday.
8) The only failure is giving up, anything else is just a learning experience.
9) That which we seek to hold is eventually lost, that which we set free and share is usually expanded upon. Success shouldn't be measured by what we hoard, but by what we share.
10) Any result obtained in spite of people rather than through people is hollow at best. In the end, no one really cares how much you know or do, until they know how much you care.
