#reflection 365

Final Quote for my reflection 365 project

Final quote – “People often tell me that motivation doesn’t last, and I tell them that bathing doesn’t either. That’s why I recommend it daily.” (Zig Ziglar)

On December 31st I completed my Reflection 365 project. My goal was to write a blog post for every day of the year. My guide as a book of quotes called Inspiration 365 Days a Year, by Zig Ziglar. That book was a gift from my friend Susan…

December 31 – Repetition is a great teacher

December 31. “Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.” (Zig Ziglar)

When I am learning to do something new, I almost never get it right the first time. In fact, I may not get it completely right the first few times. To become good at anything takes repetition. One of the reasons that I am not good at home improvement projects is…

December 30 – What is really free?

December 30. “Remember the ‘free’ cheese is in a mousetrap.” (Anonymous)

There is a saying that there is no such thing as a free lunch, and then there is another that says that the best things in life are free. Which is it? This quote tends to favor the idea that there aren’t freebies in life. I think it all depends on your perspective, and what you’re trying to get out of life.

I do believe that…

December 29 – The need for persistence

December 29. “Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.” (Robert Half)

As this year is winding down, I have been giving a lot of thought to what I have accomplished this year, and what I’d like to accomplish in the year ahead. One thing I have noticed is that the things I accomplished this year took a good bit of persistence to complete.

The…

December 27 – Kindness and being surrounded by kind people

December 27. “The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.” (Anita Roddick)

There are some people who just have magnetic personalities. Their charisma is so strong that they draw people to them. There are some people that you just want to be around because you feel better for having spent time with them.

There can be many reasons why this is true. Some may make me laugh. Some make…

December 28 – Other peoples’ happiness as the measure of my success

December 28. “A good criterion for measuring your success in life is the number of people you have made happy.” (Robert L. Lumsden)

I tend to be very hard on myself. I am usually my own worst critic. So, when I read a quote like this, my mind instantly goes to the list of people I have made UNhappy in my life. I can probably write a very long book on all the incidents in my life where I…

December 26 – Having the courage to follow my dreams

December 26. “Courage is the decision to place your dreams above your fears.” (Anonymous)

This year I have written about courage several times. For me, courage is the notion of acting in spite of ones fears. I most commonly think of it in terms of pressurized or dangerous situations. This quote casts courage in a slightly different light. In this anonymous quote, the idea of dreams come into play.

December 24 – The struggle between timeliness and quality.

December 24. “People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it.” (Howard W. Newton)

Oh, if only this were true. In the fast paced world in which we live, deadlines become paramount in importance. Sometimes I worry that our quest to do things cheaper and faster becomes a sacrifice of quality. At work I know that I am bound by a timeline. If I produce a stellar result,…