Photo taken in the United Arab Emirates posted courtesy of Akhilesh Sharma
June 3, 2002
"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves"....Dale Carnegie.
It isn't so much my best that I have a problem with....I try to do my best. But I think I need to make better use of my time for ALL jobs....
The following is taken from Dale Carnegie's Scrapbook....
"Happiness, I have discovered, is nearly always a rebound from hard work. It is one of the follies of men to imagine that they can enjoy mere thought, or emotion, or sentiment. As well try to eat beauty! For happiness must be tricked! She loves to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self-sacrifice....There is something fine in hard physical labor....One actually stops thinking. I often work long without any thought whatever, so far as I know, save that connected with the monotonous repetition of the labor itself--down with the spade, out with it, up with it, over with it--and repeat. And yet sometimes--mostly in the forenoon when I am not at all tired--I will suddenly have a sense as of the world opening around me--a sense of its beauty and its meanings--giving me a peculiar deep happiness, that is near complete content"....David Grayson.
As I read through this to post it tonight....being May 31st actually as I write this....I see something else. Hard work doesn't seem as hard when I have a thankful attitude. As I have said lately, I seem to have lost my enthusiasm, and I realize that without that enthusiasm, I feel tired. But when I work hard at what I have to do with a thankful feeling....I just feel good no matter how tired I am :-) So I am thankful for what happened this week to encourage me in this project and ultimately my life.
song playing....River of Dreams