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Today is Old New Year's Day!
Tomorrow is National Make Up Your Own Holiday Day! (I think this is everyday for the site I use!)
Hope you're having a great week! Here's some motivation to keep us going. So take a quick read...
An elderly carpenter was due to retire.
He told his employer of his plans to leave the business and start a life of leisure with his wife and extended family.
He would miss the money, but the time was right and he was ready to hang up his hammer.
His boss was disappointed as the carpenter had been a loyal and diligent worker for many years, so he was sad to see him go.
He asked for one last favour, requesting that the carpenter could build one last house before retiring.
The tradesman agreed, but it was soon clear that his heart wasn't in it.
He took shortcuts, used inferior materials and put in a half-hearted effort.
In the end the final product was well short of his usual standards, a disappointing way to end his career.
When the job was finished, the employer came to inspect the work. After taking a look around, he handed the keys to the carpenter and said, "This is your house, it's my gift to you."
The carpenter was shocked and embarrassed.
If only he had known, he would have made sure that everything was perfect.
If he had known the consequences, he would have demanded excellence from himself.
We're not that different.
We go about our business, working as we see fit.
Some with passion, some without caring.
Some with excellence, some with low standards.
Some with diligence, some without effort.
We are all in the process of building our own lives.
If you're not happy with what you see, perhaps it's a direct consequence of what you've been building over the years.
Build wisely!
Every time you walk into the gym or train outside or go into work or spend time with your family are you truly giving it your all? Are you trying to build the best possible version of yourself and become better than you were each day? Many times people will give half-hearted efforts and when they get no results or things have not changed they blame others when the only person they should be blaming is themselves. This week focus on giving it all you have in training and other aspects of your life. Watch how it will become easier and easier and you will see the fruits of your labor.
Challenge yourself
Your intentions were so grand....Originally Posted by Tech77
Awesome advise!!!
Getting closer to the Spring Game!!!!
The tribal wisdom of the Plains Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that: "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount." However, in government (and academia) more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.
5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living impaired.
7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance.
10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.
11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.
12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
And, of course ...
13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
The tribal wisdom of the Plains Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that: "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount." However, in government (and academia) more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.
5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living impaired.
7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance.
10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.
11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.
12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
And, of course ...
13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.And if you find yourself beating a dead horse....
You're a Democrat blaming Pres. Bush.
Yesterday was Pecan Day!
Today is National Spinach Day!Today is Spinach Festival Day!
What's the difference?
Tomorrow is Viagra Day!
Got to get up for that one.
Yeah, I guess.
Good old Memorial Gym
Yup, now 70techgrad just floods it with stoopid chain e-mails that are 20 years old.
348 pages. What is the social value of this thread? Please, tell me.
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