"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 don't just date a person. You date everyone they know and have known.

• Be the person someone believes in.

• Doing something will always come at the cost of not doing something else.

• You become successful by continuously overcoming challenges every day and building resiliency to life's adversity.

• Sometimes, somewhere, someone will do something wrong. That is a given. The important question is, how do you respond?

• If we are too blind to see what is happening around us today, we will make terrible decisions for the future.

• Don't chase success, cultivate it.

• Confidence is not the absence of self-doubt but the ongoing resistance to it.

Lives

• Imagine

• Design

• Build

• Lived

• We are only as good as the ideas, approaches, and experiences that we are exposed to.

• So often, people are working at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

• Forget "Me" the only word that counts is "We."

• There is no work without without a worker.

• People are not mind readers. They have no way of knowing what great work you are doing unless you let them know.

• Be in control of how people see you.

• Integrations of the old with the new create greater value.

• Your happiness should not depend on the opinions of others.

• The person who has nothing to lose is free.

Magic Question

How does one speak to someone who does not want to hear?