This is one of my favorite stories. It was originally documented back in 1898 but has been repeated many times since then: On a tour of Europe, international chess master Paul Morphy and a friend entered an art gallery. Mr. Morphy (surprise, surprise) was drawn to a painting depicting two men playing chess. The name [...]
Questions That Leaders Ask Themselves
Great insights into leadership from Tim Milburn. Questions we could all ask ourselves every morning. Enjoy! Kris Lifelong leaders make choices everyday. Here are twelve of them. Will you make a plan and follow it or make a plan and forget it? Will you simplify the complicated or complicate the simple? Will you make your [...]
The Hospital Window – Make a Difference!
I really liked this story the first time I heard it many years ago. Hope you enjoy it! Kris Here is the original story written in Europe after WWII: Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to [...]
Let No One Predict Thy Future!
Over the weekend I came across a list of predictions “experts” made about certain products or people that turned out to be totally false. It reaffirmed for me that we should never let anyone but ourselves decide our future. Your future is completely unwritten and you can change the course of your life at any [...]
The Important Things
You’ve probably heard this story before but I think it is a good one to repeat because of the profound meaning it has for our lives: A philosophy professor stood before his class with some items on the table in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a very large and [...]
Drop the Poison!
Walking down the road one day an older gentleman in a tattered grey overcoat came upon a young man holding a bright green rock. A foul-smelling gas was coming from the rock as the young man held it tightly, examining it’s surfaces. “Sir”, said the old man. “Did you know that what you are holding [...]
You And Your Circumstances
Have you ever noticed that people are always blaming their circumstances for what they are? George Bernard Shaw said, “I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstance they want, and, if they can’t find them, they go out and [...]
Optimism, Perspective and African Shoes
Perspective is a funny thing. It really defines our view of life and the events that happen every day. You will perhaps have heard this very old story illustrating the difference between positive thinking and negative thinking: Many years ago two salesmen were sent by a British shoe manufacturer to Africa to investigate and report [...]
Persistence and Hope
“When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all [...]
Discipline
“Discipline is a choice. Its simply consistently choosing the hard right over the easy wrong.” I love this quote from Rory Vaden, author of the book Take the Stairs. What a great description of discipline. Becoming disciplined is not easy and it doesn’t happen all of a sudden. It is slowly developed over time [...]
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