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17/11/2021

To get the most out of life you have to keep all your options open, keep your thinking and life flexible. You have to be ready to roll as the storm breaks-and by golly it always breaks when you least expect it.
Try to see life not as an enemy, but as a friendly sparring partner. If you’re flexible you’ll have fun. If you stand your ground you’re likely to get knocked about a bit. You have to see life as a series of adventures. Each adventure is a chance to have fun. learn something, explore the world, expand your circle of friends and experience, and broaden your horizons. Shutting down to adventures means exactly that – you are shut down.

16/11/2021

Once your thinking gets crystallized, rigid, formed, you’ve lost the battle. Once you think that you have all the answers, you might as well hang up your boots. Once you get set in your ways, you’re already part of history.

16/11/2021

Now none of this is big stuff and by that I mean I don’t go around with this emblazoned on my forehead -I dedicate my life to… sort of thing. It’s more that, quietly, in my heart, I have something that I can devote my attention to. It’s a yardstick by which I can measure (a) how I’m doing, (b) What I’m doing and (c) where I’m going. You don’t need to trumpet it. You don’t need to tell anyone (See Rule 1). You don’t even need to think it out in too much detail.
A simple internal mission statement will do. Disney’s mission for example is: "To make people happy"

15/11/2021

I have some things I dedicate my life to, I do, but keep it under my hat See rule 1. They might be crazy things, but at least I have something I can focus on. something (for me) that counts.

15/11/2021

Just don’t go mistaking the trivia for what is really important. Having time for loved ones and friends is important, what brand of washing powder you use isn’t. Nurturing our children and teaching them real values is important, dressing them in designer fashion isn’t.
You get the idea. Think about what you do that counts – and do more of it. There are some things in life that are important and a whole lot of things that aren’t.

15/11/2021