Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential

Proactive

"The time to repair your roof is when the sun is shining. "  -John F. Kennedy 

Root Causes

"There comes a point where we need to stop pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they are falling in."  -Bishop Desmond Tutu

Inner Strength

"Conquering others takes force. Conquering yourself is true strength."  - Lao Tzu

Power

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this and you will find your strength."  - Marcus Aurelius 

Meaning of Life

"The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but...in the development of the soul.

                                                                                                                                                           -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, prisoner of the Gulag Soviet labor camps

Time

"Widen your relationship to time; slow it down. Don't see time as an enemy but at ally. It provides you with perspective. Aging doesn't frighten you. Time is your teacher."

  -Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature

Self-control

"You have the power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength."  -Marcus Aurelius 

Grateful

"I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had not feet."  -Helen Keller

Fear

"Fear does not prevent death, it prevents life."

            -Buddha

Being Present

"Yesterday is but a dream. Tomorrow is only a vision. But today we'll lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope."

    -Kalidasa, fifth century Sanskrit writer