Every morning, I remind myself that there is no future in repeating the past. After some years of doing this, the message is beginning to sink in. I am now becoming more adept to listening to truths extracted from past mistakes.
In my kitchen, I keep a battered red spiral notebook where I write down principles I should not forget. As I continue to fill its pages, I realize how often I record the same messages. Will I ever learn to...
- Never expect someone else to solve my problems
- Concentrate on work I love.
- Ignore silly rules and preposterous expectations
- Don't waste my resources
- Mix fun and productivity in every task
- View mistakes as learning experiences
- Drop false ideas that keep me paralysed
- Design my own future and colour my own dreams
- Avoid nasty and deranged individuals
- Delegate as much as I can
- Devote more time to my close friends
- Seek creative alternatives in every situation
- Turn off the news (which are always pretty much the same as the day before)
- Learn to see everything in perspective
- Read my favourite books more frequently
- Lose my car keys and take long walks
- Spend more time thinking about what's important
- Never expect magic
- Mistrust first impressions
- Pursue my goals relentlessly
- Prevent problems so that they never happen
- Cook and enjoy wonderful food
- Escape noise, conflict, and nonsense
- Remind myself that, in the end, time is all I have
[Text: http://johnvespasian.blogspot.com]
[Image by dalbera under Creative Commons Attribution License. See the license terms under http://creativecommons.org/licenses
/by/3.0/us]
Every morning, I remind myself that there is no future in repeating the past. After some years of doing this, the message is beginning to sink in. I am now becoming more adept to listening to truths extracted from past mistakes.
In my kitchen, I keep a battered red spiral notebook where I write down principles I should not forget. As I continue to fill its pages, I realize how often I record the same messages. Will I ever learn to...
- Never expect someone else to solve my problems
- Concentrate on work I love.
- Ignore silly rules and preposterous expectations
- Don't waste my resources
- Mix fun and productivity in every task
- View mistakes as learning experiences
- Drop false ideas that keep me paralysed
- Design my own future and colour my own dreams
- Avoid nasty and deranged individuals
- Delegate as much as I can
- Devote more time to my close friends
- Seek creative alternatives in every situation
- Turn off the news (which are always pretty much the same as the day before)
- Learn to see everything in perspective
- Read my favourite books more frequently
- Lose my car keys and take long walks
- Spend more time thinking about what's important
- Never expect magic
- Mistrust first impressions
- Pursue my goals relentlessly
- Prevent problems so that they never happen
- Cook and enjoy wonderful food
- Escape noise, conflict, and nonsense
- Remind myself that, in the end, time is all I have
[Text: http://johnvespasian.blogspot.com]
[Image by dalbera under Creative Commons Attribution License. See the license terms under http://creativecommons.org/licenses
/by/3.0/us]
