My parents, both busy professional people, have trouble finding time for home maintenance. On weekends they each make a list of things to be done. Father's list is never completely crossed off, but Mother's always is. Puzzled, I asked her how she managed that.

"Simple," she answered with a satisfied grin. "I do the chore first, and then I put it on the list and cross it off!"

Brenda M. Witt
Reader's Digest
November 1985, pp. 84

Learn how to be comfortable in the present. . .to be awake and aware in the here and now, without worrying about what you should be doing or what comes next.

Stephan Rechtschaffen, MD
Bottom Line Tommorrow
Feb. 1997, pp. 3

No one can uplift someone else without himself being made better. It is a natural law that the teacher always learns more than the student. Just "Tow your brother's boat across, and lo, your own has reached the shore."

Sterling W. Sill
The Best of Sterling W. Sill
pp. 52-53

With immersion in the present comes a sense of the rhythm and flow inherent in each moment. What's needed now is a concious effort to time shift--to slow down or speed up your own rhythm to be in harmony with it.

Stephan Rechtschaffen, MD
Bottom Line Tommorrow
Feb. 1997, pp. 4

Learn how to be comfortable in the present. . .to be awake and aware in the here and now, without worrying about what you should be doing or what comes next.

Stephan Rechtschaffen, MD
Bottom Line Tommorrow
Feb. 1997, pp. 3

Happy Valentines Day!

The key to substituting calm satisfaction for stress is the ability to recognize the rhythm of each moment and synchronize yourself with that rhythm.

Stephan Rechtschaffen, MD
Bottom Line Tommorrow
Feb. 1997, pp. 3

Your success, or failure, in meeting the problems presented by the challenges of change will be determined by your mental attitude.

Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone
Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude
pp. 92

Businesses, community groups, organizations of every kind--including families--can be proactive. They can combine the creativity and resourcefulness of proactive individuals to create a proactive culture within the organization. The organization does not have to be at the mercy of the environment; it can take the iniative to accomplish the shared values and purposes of the individuals involved.

Stephen R. Covey
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
pp. 77

At the point where you see that you're in charge of your working destiny, you begin to realize that self-management is the vehicle that you need to take you from wherever you are to wherever you want to go. You're not a passive passenger. You're not an idle dreamer. You're not subject to the whims and fancies of fate and circumstance. You're in charge.

Brian Tracy
Nightingale-Conant's Insight
No. 114, pp. 15

One of the great tragedies of our educational system is that almost everyone is brought up to think of himself as an employee rather than an employer, as a company-owning entrepreneur. This attitude or myth that most people have been brought up to accept unquestioningly is a major cause of unhappiness and underachievement in life.

Brian Tracy
Nightingale-Conant's Insight
No. 114, pp. 14

It's the little things our children see us do that many times leave the greatest impression, and from our example they learn wonderful patterns for life.

Lloyd Newell
The Spoken Word
March 2, 1997

If one candle can light a thousand others, one act of kindness can indeed make a world of difference to someone else.

Lloyd Newell
The Spoken Word
March 2, 1997

The human brain is also the greatest problem-solver. It is the most wonderful creator. Out of the brain of Thomas A. Edison came a string of inventive creations. Mr. Edison gave us his own formula for success as "99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration."

Sterling W. Sill
The Best of Stirling W. Sill
pp. 46

Pediatricians are men of little patients.

Shelby Friedman
Laughter, the Best Medicine
pp. 49

A grandson, Matt Nelson, asked: "Why do we drive on parkways and park in driveways."