“Action, even when it leads to mistakes, brings learning and growth.  Inaction brings stagnation and atrophy.  Action requires courage.  Inaction often indicates fear.  Action builds confidence; inaction, doubt.  It is better to be the one who is told to wait, than one who waits to be told.” 

                                                - page 85 of QBQ by John G. Miller

Do I recommend this book?  NO!  You’ve just read the best of its one hundred fifteen pages.  Therefore, buying a copy is an action you should emphatically forgo.

Keep smilin’,

“As the sands of obscurity slip steadily away, a grain at a time, eventually the hourglass grants us a different perspective, and often a much clearer one.  Patience to you in all things, as understanding, with any amount of clarity, takes time.”  - RJS

This week’s Point To Ponder arose from a response I e-mailed to a co-worker  just last week.  He is spending two-and-a-half weeks in India immersing himself in a culture that has been a source of fascination (to him) since youth.  Essentially this is his once-in-a-lifetime moment.  One that he has been preparing for since childhood.

Point To Ponder:

“Later is a ship that knows no port-of-call.” - RJS

Here’s the quote in context.

George,

Too often we put our interests on hold and pursue the means to pursue them later, and of course “later” is a ship that knows no port-of-call.  Enjoy each moment as it unfolds, and soak in the essence of interacting as we were meant to.  Meet, greet, participate in new experiences, love, lend of yourself and be leant to.  Bring back a learning that would otherwise have gone undiscovered had you not boldly stepped beyond the familiar.

Peace be with you

“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight…it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” 

                                                                      – Dwight Eisenhower