"Notes" of An Elder

Nothing in life is of any value unless it is shared with others.

"Notes" of An Elder is a depository of pertinent information, knowledge and wisdom. Available weekly will be an elder's "thinking menu" for your use. Enjoy this bounty.

• Make knowledge acquisition a daily habit.

• Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of succeeding.

• If we have nothing to hide, we have nothing to fear.

• The world needs you at your best.

• "A private victory always precedes a public victory." ― Stephen R. Covey

• The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

• Envy creates silent enemies.

• Life is primarily a quest for pleasure, a quest for power, or a quest for meaning.

• Success draws far more attention than failure.

Our Lives Are To Be...

• Built

• Designed

• Imagined

• Reimagined

• Lived

• We desire what we don't need but don't want what we have.

• Complacency is the enemy of growth.

• All of our insecurities are an opportunity to do some good work.

• Don't waste words on people who deserve your silence.

• There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.

• "Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think." ― Albert Einstein

• When the truth is the goal, learning becomes the result.

• You are what you do ― how you spend your time will define you.

• Every single day is a measurement of time and a matter of interpretation.

Magic Question

What do you want out of life?