The power of thought

If you think you are beaten, you are.     If you think you dare not, you don’t. If you like to win, but you think you can’t,     It is almost certain you won’t.   If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost.     for out in the world we find, Success begins with a fellows will–     It’s allRead More

credit

“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled and fell, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood: who strives valiantly;Read More

Keep on

Just Keep On Just a keep on a livin’ and a keep on a givin’     And a keep on a trying to smile. Just a keep on singin’ and a trustin’ and a clingin’     To the promise of an after while. For the sun comes up and the sun goes down     And the morning followsRead More

Never Give Up!

    “As World War II escalated, the British were demoralized by feelings of helplessness. Night after night, hundreds of German bombers dropped death and destruction on London, Manchester, and Reading. Night after night, people lost their homes or their workplaces or their lives. Children were sent to the country for safety; teenagers were trained to flyRead More

No winner on “thought starter ifferisms”

I love to give away prizes. I love to see the comments as you share your posts about the articles I post on Youngdashboard. The # of posts for the win was 35 on “thought starter ifferisms”. We recieved to 32 comments. So I will place other incentives our there to share your thoughts and byRead More

the mental pathway

    “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominateRead More

5 minute mind exercise

Please try this. Just take 5 minutes, set your phone alarm for 5 minutes and think about this for 5 minutes. Ready? Have you set your watch, your phone alarm for 5 minutes?   Now think about this…… 1. What does the best look like in your lives?          In our business?          In our department?          InRead More

What we call failure….

“If you have made mistakes, even serious ones,     there is always another chance for you.”  -Mary Pickford       Pickford added, “What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.” She might have been inspired by an ancient Chinese proverb: “If you get up one more time than you fall, you willRead More

The Catfish story for reals

The Catfish story Let me tell you a story of the cod fish. At the turn of the century cod fish were in much demand on the east coast. News of this tasty fish spread across the country all the way to the west coast. There was however a problem. How could they get theRead More

Codfish and Catfish

Codfish and Catfish A number of years back the codfish industry on the northeast coast of the US had a problem. The fresher the fish the better. So how could they keep the codfish fresh while they transported them across the country? When they froze the fish they lost too much flavor. When they transportedRead More