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 Practice, Practice, Practice
Posted on: 04/06/2008
Ok folks, now that I have finished with the 100 spiritual principles here, with a pic, and a quote. I am taking it a bit deeper now, more personalized. If you have enjoyed reading these here, I want to invite you to another new site where I have been privileged to write on my experiences with practicing these principles in my life. Please feel free to check it out. I am quite excited about this opportunity. A good friend has created a forum on this site that all are welcome to access. I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for your support. Also I have placed a sign in calendar for anyone who wishes to place their name and years clean or sober into. My goal is to fill that calendar up. No personal information needed just years and city and state If you can't figure it out email me with the info and I'll plug you in: mineau01@msn.com This is all a new site and just gettin started.
http://www.onlinerecoverysupport.com
Love and Respect, Bruce M.
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 Knowledge
Posted on: 03/24/2008
The saying that knowledge is power is not quite true. Used knowledge is power, and more than power. It is money, and service, and better living for our fellowmen, and a hundred other good things. But mere knowledge, left unused, has no power in it.--Edward E. Free
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 Imagination
Posted on: 03/24/2008
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams--daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.--L. Frank Baum
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 Leadership
Posted on: 03/09/2008
The best test as a leader is: Do those served grow as persons; do they become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become leaders?--Robert Greenleaf
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 Humor
Posted on: 03/09/2008
Humor is that which most efficiently recognizes that we are living in an imperfect world, with imperfect arguments and things that are insane, illogical, and irrational. And the only way we can live with that fact is to laugh.--J. Barsoux
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 Limits
Posted on: 02/10/2008
Everyone knows on any given day that there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call fourth. ... Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources. ...Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives fare within his limits he possesses powers of various sorts he habitually fails to use.--William James
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 Honor
Posted on: 02/10/2008
Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.--Baltasar Gracian y Morales
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 Listening
Posted on: 01/27/2008
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. You can see that when you think how the friends that really listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius as though it did us good, like ultraviolet rays.--Brenda Ueland
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 Habit
Posted on: 01/27/2008
In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door of failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedes all others, is--"I will form good habits and become their slaves."--Og Mandino
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 Mercy
Posted on: 01/20/2008
We are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be beaten and robbed as they make their journey through life. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it understands that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.--Martin Luther King Jr.
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 Growth
Posted on: 01/20/2008
Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about 9 inches long. In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.--Vince Poscente
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 Motivation
Posted on: 01/13/2008
The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.--John Maxwell
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 Optimism
Posted on: 01/13/2008
An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist however, is one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows.--Felix Adler
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 Opportunity
Posted on: 01/06/2008
If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.--John B. Gough
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 Goals
Posted on: 01/06/2008
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.--Joseph Campbell
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