Something to Ponder
This week I have shared a brief motivational thought with you. I hope you have allowed the words to resonate within you and discover how they might apply to your life. David Sarnoff closes our week of important thoughts.
“Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will
not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense
of the glory of striving . . . if your sights are set far above
the merely secure and mediocre.”
WOW! Have a most meaningful Friday and weekend!
--Ben Keckler
10.21.11
Showing posts with label motivational thought. Show all posts
Showing posts with label motivational thought. Show all posts
Friday, October 21, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Daily Devotion - Thursday, October 20
Something to Ponder
Each day this week I have shared a brief motivational thought with you. Allow these words to resonate within you and discover how they might apply to your life. Thursday’s thoughts are some facts collected by Glenn Van Ekeren. I hope you enjoy them:
“If you think time has been your biggest obstacle on the
road to achievement, think again. Time allows us the
opportunity to dedicate ourselves to larger, worthwhile
efforts: Here are some examples:
• Poet William Cullen Bryant rewrote one of his
essays 99 times in an effort to perfect it.
• It took historian Edward Gibbon 26 years to
write The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
• Noah Webster spent 36 years producing the first
edition of the dictionary that bears his name.”
Be attentive to today and do what you are capable of doing—do your work well!
--Ben Keckler
10.20.11
Each day this week I have shared a brief motivational thought with you. Allow these words to resonate within you and discover how they might apply to your life. Thursday’s thoughts are some facts collected by Glenn Van Ekeren. I hope you enjoy them:
“If you think time has been your biggest obstacle on the
road to achievement, think again. Time allows us the
opportunity to dedicate ourselves to larger, worthwhile
efforts: Here are some examples:
• Poet William Cullen Bryant rewrote one of his
essays 99 times in an effort to perfect it.
• It took historian Edward Gibbon 26 years to
write The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
• Noah Webster spent 36 years producing the first
edition of the dictionary that bears his name.”
Be attentive to today and do what you are capable of doing—do your work well!
--Ben Keckler
10.20.11
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Daily Devotion - Wednesday, October 19
Something to Ponder
Each day this week I am sharing a brief motivational thought with you. Allow the words to resonate within you and discover how they might apply to your life. It is Wednesday and here are some very important words from Andre Gide:
“What another would have done as well as you, do not do it.
What another would have said as well as you, do not say it.
What another would have written as well, do not write it.
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself—
and thus make yourself indispensable.”
May this thought flood your actions throughout the day.
--Ben Keckler
10.19.11
Each day this week I am sharing a brief motivational thought with you. Allow the words to resonate within you and discover how they might apply to your life. It is Wednesday and here are some very important words from Andre Gide:
“What another would have done as well as you, do not do it.
What another would have said as well as you, do not say it.
What another would have written as well, do not write it.
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself—
and thus make yourself indispensable.”
May this thought flood your actions throughout the day.
--Ben Keckler
10.19.11
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Daily Devotion - Tuesday, October 18
Something to Ponder
Each day this week I’d like to share a brief motivational thought with you. Allow the words to resonate within you and discover how they might apply to your life. It is Tuesday and here are some words from James Carroll:
“We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal
thinking. We move along the surface of things going from one
quick base to another, often with a frenzy that wears us out.
We collect data, things, people, ideas, 'profound experiences,'
never penetrating any of them. . . . But there are other times.
There are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves
in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen, and breezes from
a whole other world begin to whisper.”
Listen to the breezes that whisper to you today.
--Ben Keckler
10.18.11
Each day this week I’d like to share a brief motivational thought with you. Allow the words to resonate within you and discover how they might apply to your life. It is Tuesday and here are some words from James Carroll:
“We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal
thinking. We move along the surface of things going from one
quick base to another, often with a frenzy that wears us out.
We collect data, things, people, ideas, 'profound experiences,'
never penetrating any of them. . . . But there are other times.
There are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves
in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen, and breezes from
a whole other world begin to whisper.”
Listen to the breezes that whisper to you today.
--Ben Keckler
10.18.11
Monday, October 17, 2011
Daily Devotion - Monday, October 17
Something to Ponder
Each day this week I’d like to share a brief motivational thought with you. Allow the words to resonate within you and discover how they might apply to your life. For the beginning of the week, some words from Joanna Macy:
“If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am
convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love
for this life is even greater than their fear. These people
can open the web of life that called us into being, and who
can rest in the vitality of that larger body.”
Have a meaningful week.
--Ben Keckler
10.17.11
Each day this week I’d like to share a brief motivational thought with you. Allow the words to resonate within you and discover how they might apply to your life. For the beginning of the week, some words from Joanna Macy:
“If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am
convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love
for this life is even greater than their fear. These people
can open the web of life that called us into being, and who
can rest in the vitality of that larger body.”
Have a meaningful week.
--Ben Keckler
10.17.11
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