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Introducing… a new category that covers research, thoughts, business applications, and idea developments in:
* The Brain
* Expertise
* Game Theory
* Goals and Habits
* Happiness
* Health
* Intuition
* Positive Psychology
Introducing the FEATURED REGULARLY category.
To make things very findable on this site, this is the section that includes the following regular weekly features:
* Tuesday Stories
* Thursday Quotes
* Friday Questions
and from time to time:
* Opinions
Introducing… the FUN THINGS category.
This category includes:
* Books
* Fun
* Moments
* Lessons and Take-Aways
* On Blogging & Writing
Q: What quotes of yours would you want to be in a quotes compilation book?
* What is something that you say that your friends know sounds like a YOU-ism?
* What would you want attributed to you in a quote book? (For some reason, I am a little afraid of Scott-he-knows-who-I-mean answering this question in a public forum!)
* How would you describe life, the world, your main opinions?
* What are some of the most fun things you’ve ever said?
QUOTE YOURSELF!
Thanks! My answers are in the comments and look forward to your answers in the comments too! :)
“Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to do what they want to do.”
~ Kathleen Winsor
“Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.”
~ Don Sutton
What if we combine the above two thoughts?
The good life is about…busting your fanny at the thing you most want to do.
This sounds pretty similar to doing first things first, and the rest taking care of itself. Somewhat like walnuts and rice.
An interesting lesson-story gets passed down from generation to generation in some families. I’ve heard this story from my friends with some variation, but for some reason in the accounts, it’s consistently the father who is the main hero who demonstrates this phenomenon. Here are the two main versions I know:
And then the father says to his little girl, “See, it’s just like this – if you put in the important things in life first (laughing with mom and me, doing your homework, visiting grandma and grandpa), then the little things will all fit, and if you put in the little things in your life first, then the lrage rocks just won’t have any space.”
And then I imagine the child saying, “Oh, no, dad, that’s silly. Try it the other way!” And then the walnuts go in first, and after that the rice. And then the father says to the child, “the walnuts are like the people you love your mom, your brother and me and the rice is all the things in life that we all think we need.” |
The above are lyrics from Kevin Briody. The words are from his song “Walnuts and Rice,” which I heard him perform once live, and it was great. Kevin Briody (rhymes with “sobriety”) is a singer-songwriter, and if you like it, you should catch him performing sometime. Another excerpt from Walnuts and Rice:
He took one handful of walnuts
and one handful of rice
you see my dad he had a funny way
of handing out advice
first he poured the rice in
this empty candy jar
but when he poured the walnuts in
they spilled down to the floorHe said, “the walnuts are like the people you love
your mom, your brother and me
and the rice is all the things in life
that we all think we need
how we fill this empty jar
is how we live our lives
first things first, there’s room for both
walnuts and rice”Well i looked at him all confused
and he looked at me all content
as the smile grew across his face
i asked him what he meant
then he emptied out that jar
but before he put it back
this time he poured the nuts in first
and the rice filled in the cracks
Note: Written on 11-16 and posted for 11-15 to precede quote Thursday.
Q: What are you thankful for today? What are you happy about today?
My answers in the comments. Please put your answers in the comments too!
“Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.”
~ Socrates
I was just thinking about that this week.
This is the first year in my life that I’ve ever carved pumpkins! Mine’s the one in the front. I really like my friend’s scary one in the back too – especially the teeth and dennis-the-menace hair! :)
Hi, it’s Friday, the play and ask questions day.
What are your favorite things about the fall?!?!?
Some of mine:
* The smell of leaves
* The COLOR of leaves
* Ice cream – I know it’s possible at any time of year, but now there are these flavors: pumpkin, chestnut, later eggnog. :)
* THE WIND!!!! Great wind in the fall, and usually not too cool yet.
* Good time to get together with friends … going inside into cozy places.
…. and your favorite things about the fall?