Master of My Fate

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
- William Ernest Henley

Steve Jobs' Three Rules of Life ...

1. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

2. Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.

3. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs

Today's affirmation:
I set my own course through the ocean of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Big Dream - Big Adventure

Fun and Success

Life and Death: Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 (video)

Creating Your Masterwork


   

Try a Different Approach

Persistence only takes you so far.
Then you need to try a different approach.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life repeats itself mindlessly.
Unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel.
- Osho

I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting
some false and most pernicious notions about consistency -
and to such a degree that the average man has
turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around
and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized,
where it should be his humiliation.
- Mark Twain

If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Anthony Robbins

Further reading: Flexibility is Key to Progress

Our Habits

A Better Plan

Cheer for Endings

Your Whole Toolkit
     

Thanks are More Powerful than Demands

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart

However much or little you have,
"Thank You" is always a more powerful prayer than, "I need more."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today.
Have you used one to say "thank you?"
- William Arthur Ward

Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus

Further reading: Gratitude for Small Miracles

Unanswered Prayers

Zero-Based Gratitude

The Power of Gratitude
      

It's About the Journey

It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.
- Francesca da Rimini
 
To live only for some future goal is shallow.
It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
- Robert M. Pirsig

Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard

Further reading: Staying Adaptable

Be Flexible

The Secret of Happiness

Choosing to Love Life
       

Vote Early!

In most locations, early voting and/or vote-by-mail are available now.

VOTE Early! Vote Now!
Please remind all your friends to vote!

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson

Bad politicians are sent to Washington [and state and local government] by good people who don't vote.
- William E. Simon

PLEASE VOTE!
Please remind all your friends to vote!

Thank You,
  Jonathan Lockwood Huie