Tag: #coffeewithjon

  • Lending Kindness

    “This planet has—or rather had—a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it…

  • Today Is The Day

    “Today is the day you woke up from time traveling to rewrite the future you didn’t want.” —Joel “This is it! Today is the day,” you tell yourself. It’s the one day a year that we give ourselves a clean slate.  If you’re anything like me, you watched as the sun crested over the horizon…

  • The Value Of A Smile At Christmas

    This is an excerpt from How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. While it’s geared towards those in sales or those working during the holidays, its value can be applied by anyone at any time. ‘The Value of a Smile at Christmas’ It costs nothing but creates much. It enriches those who…

  • Friendship

    “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” —C.S. Lewis We’ve all got them… friends who have been with us through thick and thin, in our lives longer than we can remember, and have forgotten more random facts about…

  • When Was The Last Time…

    “Having spent many years trying to define the essentials of trust, I arrived at the position that if two people could say two things to each other and mean them, then there was the basis for real trust. The two things were ‘I mean you no harm’ and ‘I seek your greatest good.’” —Jim Meehan…

  • Saying “No Thank You”…

    “Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their…

  • Motivation Is Fleeting…

    “In everybody’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” —Albert Schweitzer As we all know, motivation can be fleeting. Waking up ‘on the wrong side of the…

  • As We Always Say…

    “There are two ways to do something: The right way and again. You’ll be knocked down – that happens to everyone. Stand up. Dust off. Put your head down, and go.” —Unattributed Navy SEAL motto I had a hard time finding the source of this quote… it might be that the first complete sentence was…

  • In A World That Demands More…

    “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” —Howard Thurman In a world that demands more and more of your time, attention, and energy, it can be hard to find the “thing” that makes you tick.…