Wisdom From The Wise...

Getting up early is a gift you give to yourself. Few disciplines have the power to transform your life as does the habit of early rising. There is something very special about the first few hours of the morning. Time seems to slow down and a deep sense of peace fills the air. Joining the "Five O'Clock Club" will allow you to start controlling your day rather than letting the day control you. Winning the "Battle of the Bed" and putting "Mind over Mattress" by rising early will provide you with at least one quiet hour for yourself during the most crucial part of the day: the beginning. If spent wisely, the rest of your day will unfold in a wonderful way.

To cultivate the habit of getting up earlier, the first thing to remember is that it is the quality of sleep that matters the most rather than the quantity of sleep.It is better to have 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep than having 10 hours of broken sleep.

Our character is shaped not through life's easiest experiences, but during life's toughest ones.It is during life's most trying times that we discover who we really are and the fullness of the strength that lies between us.

Live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that is not life.

To live your life to the fullest, start taking more risks and doing the things that you fear. Get good at becoming uncomfortable and stop taking the path of least resistance. Sure, there is a greater chance that you will stub your toes when you walk the road less traveled, but that is the only way you can reach to the top.

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to loose sight of the shore for a very long time."
-Andre Gide.

The real secret to a life of abundance is to stop spending your days searching for security and to start spending your time pursuing opportunity.Sure, you will meet with your share of failures if you start living more deliberately and passionately. But failure is nothing more than learning how to win. Its risky out on a limb but thats where all the fruit is.

Deeply fulfilled and highly actualized people simply make wiser choices than others. You can choose to spend the rest of your days sitting on the shore of life in complete safety or you can take some chances, dive deep into the water and discover the pearls that lie waiting for the person of true courage.

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doers 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, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best, knows in the end the triumphs of high achievement and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
-Theodore Roosevelt.

The real secret of getting things done is knowing what things need to be left undone.

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."
-Peter Drucker.