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Funny Friday: Staying productive
“I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.” ~ Steven Wright Cindy La Ferle ______ For social media sharing options and expanded content, please visit the home page.
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Walking our talk
“There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life: One is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. This method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things.” ~Fulton J. Sheen At the University of Notre Dame, South Bend / Cindy La Ferle ______ For social media sharing options and expanded content, please visit the home page.
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How to be an original
“Do your own thing. Let others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you’ll find yourself in late night cocktail lounge cover band limbo.” ~Kurt Cobain Hasn’t it all been done before? Is there any such thing as a truly original idea? Contrary to the old maxim, imitation isn’t the highest form of flattery. It’s a creative cop out. My essay on the challenge of finding your own voice and style is featured this week on the National Society of Newspaper Columnists website. You can read it here. Photo by Cindy La Ferle
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Resetting our priorities
“The quality of your life, in the long run, directly depends upon how you set and respect your priorities today…. ‘I don’t have time’ is really just another, more polite, way of saying ‘It is not that important to me.’ ” ~Marc Chernoff At Shinola headquarters in Detroit / Cindy La Ferle ______ For social media sharing options and more content, please visit the home page.
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The gratitude season
“If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.” ~Rabbi Harold Kushner Cindy La Ferle ~ Remember our veterans today ~ ______ For social media sharing options and more content, please visit the home page.
