"Notes" of An Elder 

It is becoming less about what you know and more about what you do with what you know.

December 25, 2020

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"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.

  • Rule #1 to win in life, remain calm during your toughest situations.

  • There are many things we say "yes" to that we really should be saying "no" to.

  • The things that divide us should never be greater than the things that unite us.

  • Our daily struggle is the freedom to be who it is we want to be.

  • Each person voices his or her truth.

  • Every conversation is an opportunity to learn.

  • You represent the future. I represent the past.

  • It is becoming less about what you know and more about what you do with what you know.

Courage

  • To Be and To Do

  • To Risk and To See

  • To Grow and To Ask

  • To Think and To Live

  • To Learn and To Love

  • To Refuse and To Heal

  • On each hand, we have five fingers. They are all different but work together to get the job done.

  • Make friends, not money.

  • If you want more time, you need to start eliminating unnecessary things from your life.

  • Is this a problem or an opportunity?

  • Daily: teach our heart new ways to think, feel, beat, love, and learn the truth.

  • At 83, I am re-educating my heart.

  • Wisdom teaches us not to seek recognition alone but primarily seek respect, which is more lasting than recognition.

Magic Question

Do we have all the facts?

P.S. Searching for a book recommendation? Our team at The Daily Coach highly recommends The Last Thing You Surrender: A Novel of World War II by Leonard Pitts Jr. Could you find the courage to do what’s right in a world on fire? Set against a backdrop of violent racial conflict on both the front lines and the home front, The Last Thing You Surrender explores the powerful moral struggles of individuals from a divided nation. What does it take to change someone’s mind about race? What does it take for a country and a people to move forward, transformed?

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