Thought for the day...

Having confidence in a youngster gives him confidence in himself.

A man succeeds or fails because he is or is not motivated.

To be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

The emotions are not immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action. The action can be physical or mental.

 

To speak enthusiastically do the following:

1. Talk loudly: This is particularly necessary if you are emotionally upset if you are shaking inside when you stand before an audience, if you have butterflies in your stomach.

2. Talk rapidly: Your mind functions more quickly when you do. You can read two books with greater understanding in the time you now red one if you concentrate and read with rapidity.

3. Emphasize: Emphasize important words, words that are important to you or your listening audience; a word like you, for example.

4. Hesitate: When you talk rapidly, hesitate where there would be a period, comma, or other punctuation in the written word. Thus you employ the dramatic effect of silence. The mind of the person who is listening catches up with the thoughts you have expressed. Hesitation after a word which you wish to emphasize accentuates the emphasis.

5. Keep a smile in your voice: Thus in talking loudly and rapidly, you eliminate gruffness. You can put a smile in your voice by putting a smile on your face, a smile in your eyes.

6. Modulate: This is important if you are speaking for a long period. Remember, you can modulate both pitch and volume. You can speak loudly and intermittently change to a conversational tone and a lower pitch if you wish.

7. When the butterflies stop flying around in your stomach, you can then speak in an enthusiastic, conversational tone of voice.

 

It is in quiet time that our best ideas occur to us.

Don’t assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought. Thought is the foundation upon which all else is built by man.

Four important things to keep in mind when setting your goals:

1. Write down your goals.
2. Give yourself a deadline.
3. Set your standards high.
4. Aim high.

 

People tend to rise to meet demands that are put upon them.

The test of your faith is whether you apply it at the time of your greatest need.

The more you share, the more you will have.

What is left with you when you share it with others will multiply and grow; and what you withhold from others will diminish and decrease. Therefore, share that which is good and desirable and withhold that which is bad and undesirable.

“What! Giving again?” I ask in dismay.
“And must I keep giving and giving away?”
“Oh no,” said the angel looking me through,
“Just keep giving till the Master stops giving to you!”

 

To write with a broken pencil is really pointless.

A wood chopper’s son, short of wit
Liked axes and saws not a bit.
While setting his wedge, for the swing of his sledge
He sized up his options and split.


There was an old woman named Pat
Who couldn’t sew, knit or tat.
She baked bread for the fair,
Won a blue ribbon there,
And said, “Thank you, I kneaded that.”

 

A sculptor of note on this planet,
Conceived a new work and began it.
When his stone up and crumbled,
He ruefully grumbled.
“I’m sorry I took it for granite.”


There once lived a youth in Duluth,
Who aspired to life as a sleuth.
But he soon changed his mind,
For it shocked him to find,
The truth is so often uncouth.

 

We were painting the church steeple gray,
When the wind blew our brushes away.
We said to the pastor,
“This is a disaster.”
He calmly replied, “Let us spray.”



There once was a man from St. Paul
Who moaned about being so tall.
At night in his bed,
Was his body and his head.
His feet had to sleep in the hall.

 

"If we ever forget that we are a Nation Under God....then we will be a Nation Gone Under." Ronald Reagan

A lecturer when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water and asked, "How heavy is this glass of water?" Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g. The lecturer replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it. If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance. In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes."

He continued, "And that's the way it is with stress management. If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly heavy, we won't be able to carry on. As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again. When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden."

"So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down. Don't carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you're carrying now, let them down for a moment if you can. So, my friend, Put down anything that may be a burden to you right now. Don't pick it up again until after you've rested a while."

 

Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.

Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be recalled by their maker.