Can I get an Amen...........................?

 

“At a basic level, governing is about taking care of businesses and families,” she explained to me recently. “It all comes down to raising the quality of life.”

-Joel Kotkin, from here

Please...........................

 

The world doesn’t need another hard-nosed profession. It needs one that acquires clout through competence and caring.

-Michael Wade, from here

Self care.............................

 Go to bed on time. Eat healthy food. Meditate.

Skewer your guilt on a red-hot poker and burn it to ash.

Drink more water. Take a walk. Look at trees. Listen to water.

-Annie Mueller, from this longer list

thanks Patrick

All this week..........................

 

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On cares..............................

There are many things you should care about

Like sick animals, dying trees, and saving the bees.

What other people think of you

is not one of these things.

-Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts III:  Mending the Mind

Adding and subtracting....................

Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you to add something to the pleasure of others, or to diminish something of their pains. And for every grain of enjoyment you sow in the bosom of another, you shall find a harvest in your own bosom; while every sorrow which you pluck out from the thoughts and feelings of a fellow creature shall be replaced by beautiful peace and joy in the sanctuary of your soul.

-Jeremy Bentham

Be generous with change...................

........................and brave with your business.

Generosity in terms of free work,  constant discounts, and plenty of uncompensated overtime isn't really generous.   Because you can't sustain it.  Because soon you'll be breaking the promises you made.
     On the other hand, showing generosity with your bravery, your empathy, and your respect is generous indeed.
     What you customers want from you is for you to care enough to change them.
     To create tension that leads to forward motion.
     To exert emotional labor that will open them up to what's possible.
     And if you need to charge a lot to pull that off, it's still a bargain.

-Seth Godin,  This Is Marketing:  You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To See

Take care.........................

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On caring....................................

      I found the cause of the seizures a few weeks later, waiting to happen again.  It was a little twenty-five-cent pin in the internal oil-delivery system that had been sheared and was preventing oil from reaching the head at high speeds.
     The question why comes back again and again and has become a major reason for wanting to deliver this Chautauqua.  Why did they butcher it so?   These were not people running away from technology, like John and Sylvia.  These were technologists themselves.  They sat down to do a job and they performed it like chimpanzees.  Nothing personal in it.  There was not obvious reason for it.  And I tried to think back into that shop, that nightmare place, to try to remember anything that could have been the cause.
     The radio was a clue.  You can't really think hard about what you're doing and listen to the radio at the same time.   Maybe they didn't see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling. ...
     Their speed was another clue.  They were really slopping things around in a hurry and not looking where they slopped them. ...
     But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions.  They were hard to explain.  Good-natured, friendly, easygoing - and uninvolved.  They were like spectators.  You had the feeling they had just wandered in there and somebody had handed them a wrench,  There was no identification with the job.  No saying, "I'm a mechanic." ...  And it occurred to me there is no manual that deals with the real business of motorcycle maintenance, the most important aspect of all.  Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.
     On this trip I think we should notice it, explore it a little, to see if in that strange separation of what man is from what man does we may have some clues as to what the hell has gone wrong in this twentieth century.  I don't want to hurry it.  That itself is a poisonous twentieth-century attitude.  When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.

-Robert M. Pirsig, as copied from Chapter 2 of Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance:  An Inquiry Into Values

An important question...................

"When people tell Joe to stop and smell the roses, his first response is 'Who is maintaining the roses?'"

-Tim Ferriss, as extracted from Tools Of Titans:  The Tactics, Routines, And Habits Of Billionairs, Icons, And World-Class Performers