Friday, November 6, 2009

November 6, 2009 Chautauqua


From the Editor's Computer

Sometimes something happens in your life and there is just no rhyme or reason why.

Such was the case with my life lately. A few days after I delivered the last issue of the Chautauqua, my computer stopped working. That is not a real horrendous calamity in my world, except I receive the bulk of the submissions and ads for the Chautauqua via email and I could not check to see if I was getting anything, nor could I send off ad proofs.

I phoned around and the earliest someone could look at my computer was a week later. .

The technician then ended up away from work so when I finally was able to get my laptop into him (thanks to the kindness of a friend), he did not look at it for an additional two days. By then I was getting more than a little antsy as paper deadlines were looming larger and larger on my horizon.

Finally, the long-awaited phone call came. All the hardware worked perfectly. All the software worked perfectly. All the hardware and software communicated and worked perfectly with each other without conflict. Yet, it still did not work! The technician's solution was to wipe everything off the computer and start over. I talked him into a more basic fix and thankfully things are working again.

Sometimes we think that everything would be better if we could start our lives completely over. In truth, a dramatic change may not really be what we need. Rather the simplest fix may be to change our perception and release the need to know why things are the way they are.

Beth

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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Blooming

Conduct your blooming
in the noise and whip of the whirlwind.
– Gwendolyn Brooks

Monday, November 2, 2009

Difference

Never underestimate
the difference you can make.
- unknown

Friday, October 30, 2009

Give

Give advice sparingly.
Give love freely.
Give your time carefully.
Give yourself wholeheartedly.
- unknown

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Stress

Stress comes from knowing what is right
and doing what is wrong.
– unknown

Monday, October 26, 2009

Friendship

Friendships should be easy.
If you have to work hard
to maintain the friendship,
then it isn’t really much of a friendship.
Friends accept you
and let you bet the way you are.
– Larry Winget

Friday, October 23, 2009

Success

Success is simple.
Do what’s right, the right way,
at the right time.
– Arnold Glasow

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Appearances

Things are how they are supposed to be,
all evidence to the contrary.
– Anne Lamott

Monday, October 19, 2009

Opportunity

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity
and not have one
than to have an opportunity
and not be prepared.

- Whitney Young

Friday, October 16, 2009

October 16, 2009 Chautauqua


From the Editor's Computer

I recently read the following: “By one estimate, each of us will have at least 35 hours of unfinished work in front of us our entire life. In short, we’ll never catch up!” (Robert Cooper) Now, I don’t know about you, however I find that a very freeing thought.

If we’ll never catch up, then why stress about it? Why cram our schedules with tasks that we are trying to catch up on? Why let those 35 hours of unfinished work prey on our mind day after day after day after day?

What is all that unfinished work? Is it books we want to read, movies we want to watch, projects we started and think we should finish, classes we want to take, or (fill in the blank)?

If we’re never going to get that unfinished work finished, does it really need done anyway?

Obviously it isn’t hurting us that it is unfinished, otherwise, we’d have finished it and it wouldn’t be hanging over us. So just forget about it. Free yourself from that 35 hours of unfinished work.

Larry Winget, the World’s Only Irritational Speaker, suggests tossing to-do lists and creating “Get it Done” lists. He explains that to-do lists are really lists of what you wish to get done, whereas get-it-done lists are lists of things that have to get done (or else!). The things that have to get done can be anything from daily tasks to perusing your biggest and grandest dreams.

Though, do you really need to create a list? The things that absolutely have to get done will still get done...because they have to!

Beth

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Receive

If we just do what we love,
love what we do,
and express ourselves freely,
we are serving others
in accordance to our purpose.
All that is left is for us
to open ourselves to receive.
– Arnold Patent

Monday, October 12, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Friday, October 9, 2009

Odd

Read odd stuff. Visit odd places.
Make odd friends. Hire odd people.
Cultivate odd hobbies. Work with odd partners.
- Tom Peters

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Life

Life is like a buffet;
you have to serve yourself.
- Larry Winget

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