Leading Narratives

Below is the personal creed of Robert Louis Stevenson and it is still very relevant today!  Make up your mind to be happy.  Learn to find pleasure in simple things. Make the best of your circumstances.  No one has everything, and everyone has something of sorrow intermingled with the gladness of life.  The trick is to make laughter outweigh the tears. Don’t take yourself too seriously. Don’t think that somehow you should be protected from misfortunes that befall others. You can’t please everybody.  Don’t let criticism worry you. Don’t let your neighbor set your standards.  Be yourself. Do the things you enjoy doing but stay out of debt. Don’t borrow trouble.  Imaginary things are harder to bear than actual ones. Since hate poisons the soul, do not cherish enmities, grudges. Avoid people who make you unhappy. Have many interests. If you can’t travel, read about new places. Don’t hold post-mortems.  Don’t spend your life brooding over...

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it. ― Peter F. Drucker Greatness, whether athletic or otherwise, doesn’t come from those content on just being but from those who seek to be the difference. ― Kirk Mango Nothing is born into this world without labor. There was a time we laughed at the old guys up on the hill. The ones who graduated a couple of years before us, and who would hang around the school and the ballpark still, and would sit on the hoods of their cars and tell us how when they were seniors they did it better, faster, and further. We laughed because we were still doing it, and all they could do was talk. If our goals were not met, there was next year, but it never occurred to us that one day there would not be a next year, and that the guys sitting on the hoods of their cars at the top of the hill, wishing they could have one more year, willing to settle for one last game, could one day be us. ― Tucker Elliot Thi...

Imagine that you had won the following prize in a contest--each morning your bank would deposit $86,400 in your private account for your use. However, this prize has rules. The rules are: Everything that you didn't spend during each day would be taken away from you. You may not transfer money into some other account.  You may only spend it. Each morning upon awakening, the bank opens your account with another $86,400 for that day. The bank can end the game without warning; at any time it can say: "Game Over." It can close the account and you will not receive a new one. What would you personally do? You would buy anything and everything you wanted right? Not only for yourself, but for all the people you love and care for. Even for people, you don't know, because you couldn't possibly spend it all on yourself, right? You would try to spend every penny, and use it all, because you knew it would be replenished in the morning, right? Actually, This ga...