Category: Coffee With Jon

  • Give Purpose To Your Daily Tasks

    “Wash the plate not because it is dirty nor because you are told to wash it, but because you love the person who will use it next.” —Mother Teresa of Calcutta Life tends to make more sense when we have a purpose, and all of the daily tasks that we deal with, when given meaning,…

  • The Unbiased Truth – Change Your Own Mind

    “They were not the same eyes with which he had last looked out at this particular scene, and the brain which interpreted the images the eyes resolved was not the same brain. There had been no surgery involved, just the continual wrenching of experience.” —Douglas Adams, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish It’s…

  • The Importance of Building Strong Bonds

    “And then—the watcher at his pulse took fright. No one believed. They listened at his heart. Little—less—nothing!—and that ended it. No more to build on there. And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.” —Robert Frost, ‘Out, Out—’ While this snippet of a poem is incredibly abrupt, it is also…