“Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.” — Author Unknown

“Procrastination is the thief of time.” — Edward Young

“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.” — Don Marquis

“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” – Lord Chesterfield

“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“He listens well who takes notes.” — Dante Alighieri

“Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.” — Rita Mae Brown

“High thoughts must have high language.” – Aristophanes

“Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.” — Alford

“In the study of one’s personal language and self talk it can be observed that what one thinks and talks about to himself tends to become the deciding influences n his life. For what the mind attends to, the mind considers.” — Sidney Madwed

“The individual’s whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.” — Henri Delacroix

“What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.” — Jim Beggs

“Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.” – Publilius Syrus

“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” — H.L. Mencken

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” — Robert Frost

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” –Bertrand Russell

“The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.” — W. Somerset Maugham

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” — Carl Sandburg

“First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.” — Thomas a Kempis

“Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.” – Dr. Karl A. Menninger

“Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.” — Frederick Saunders

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way…you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.” — Aristotle

“Nothing endures but personal qualities.” — Walt Whitman

“The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.” — Dr. Smiley Blanton

“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.” — Ayn Rand

“Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.” — George F. Burns

“Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.” — B. C. Forbes

“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves — to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.” — Stewart B. Johnson

“Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.” — Henry J Kaiser

“An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.” — Stephen R. Covey

“If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don’t particularly like.” — Soichiro Honda

“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” — Ray Kroc

“Anybody who accepts mediocrity – in school, on the job, in life – is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.” — Charles Knight

1. Ask yourself what the “youthful sage” within you would do whenever you have difficulty making a choice. The youthful sage is your childhood swelf –as children we tend to be more in touch with our intuition. When we grow older, many of us feel that this innate wisdom becomes stifled by conditioning and experience. Consulting your childhood self is a way of reconnecting with your intuition, helping you to make a choice consistent with your true self.

2. Do laundry mindfully. and turn a household chore into a kind of meditation exercise. When the clothes come from the dryer, enjoy the feel and the fresh smell of the warm fabric as you fold each item. If done with attention to detail, by the time your task is finished you should be feeling thoroughly peaceful and relaxed.

3. Be inspired by clouds. A Zen master once said, “The sky does not impede the clouds in their flight”. Meditate on this idea. Allow your thoughts, like clouds, to drift across the surface of your mind without trying to push them away or hold unto them.

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Source:
1001 Ways to Relax by Mike George