"Notes" of An Elder ― 12.13.24

If you're not managing your thoughts, you're leaving a lot of happiness and success on the table.

December 13, 2024

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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.

  • You become valuable by how many problems you solve.

  • Can't is a bad four-letter word.

  • Love is great when spoken but greatest when shown.

  • The mistakes we make in life are not as important as the lessons we learn from them.

  • For the truth to exist, it takes two people. One to speak it and another to hear it.

  • Some of the best times of your life haven't even happened yet.

  • Time well spent is a life well lived.

  • Being a lover of wisdom requires acting with a purpose.

Every Day Choices

  • Be great

  • Be good

  • Be average

  • Asking what the right thing to do presupposes that there is a single right thing to do.

  • A smart person knows what to say. A wise person knows whether or not to say it.

  • If you're not managing your thoughts, you're leaving a lot of happiness and success on the table.

  • You don't need to attend every argument you're invited to.

  • Every great success requires some type of worthy struggle to get there.

  • You don't need luck, but take it if it comes along.

  • Nothing pains people more than having to think.

Magic Question

Is this person worthy of my trust?

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