"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.

• You can't change the past, but you can change what you do about the future.

• Be very clear about what you do. Be just as clear about what you do not do.

• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

• It's your life, and you want to ensure that you have lived the way you wanted to live.

• To really understand what something is about, you have to do it yourself.

• When you face the intolerable, you have three options: remove yourself, change it, or accept it. The choice is yours.

• We rarely lose friends. We just gradually figure out who the real ones are.

Game Plan

• Listen

• Learn

• Understand

• Challenge

• The easiest way to shift your mind from "can't" to "can" is to change the way you talk to yourself.

• The leader makes the position. The position doesn't make the leader.

• Your what-to-stop-doing list may have more potential and positive power for you than your to-do list.

• Be the best at what matters most, and you will succeed.

• Solving the wrong problem is one of the most significant reasons real change does not occur.

• You should expect resistance not only from others but from yourself as well.

• If you want what you have never had, you must do what you have never done.

• Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.

Magic Question

If you were beginning again, what would you change?