"Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny."

- Unknown


what is t.a.d.?
On the importance of ALWAYS taking action:

"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


what is t.a.d.?
"The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure."

- Sven Goran Eriksson


what is t.a.d.?
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

- Calvin Coolidge


what is t.a.d.?
"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."

- Mother Teresa


what is t.a.d.?
"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose."

- Kahlil Gibran


what is t.a.d.?
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.


what is t.a.d.?
"Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation."

- Pierre Teilhard De Chardin


what is t.a.d.?
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

- Oscar Wilde


what is t.a.d.?

Future me?

One of the things I like to discuss is time - time levels the playing field for everyone, because we all have the same amount of time to work with (until we die, of course).

We all have the same number of seconds in a minute, minutes in an hour, hours in a day, days in a month, and months in a year.

What we choose to do with that time is what differentiates us from one another. Think of a point in the future - six weeks, for example. Six weeks will pass for each of us in 42 days, regardless of whether we spend it sitting on the couch watching television or work on improving our physical and mental well-being. But, we will all arrive at that point in the future in the same amount of time.

Time is one of the many tools at your disposal. But you have to take advantage of it, and use it properly. No one can do it for you - you have to do it for yourself.

A reader sent me a link to a website earlier this week called FutureMe. You can compose an email to your "future self" and have it delivered on a specified date. Many of you may already do something similar. I write notes to myself in my calendar - notes about what I should have accomplished by a specific date, reminders about what I need to be doing and what my motivation to do it is (or was at the time I undertook the task), notes about what I expected of myself 3, 6, 9 or more months from today. It is a good idea, and can help you stay on track with your goals and objectives.

what is t.a.d.?
"Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power, and influence."

- Henry Chester


what is t.a.d.?
"I started golfing in my 40s with Parkinson's [disease]...if that's not optimism, I don't know what is."

- Michael J. Fox


what is t.a.d.?
"Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me."

"Every twenty-four-hour day is a tremendous gift to us...I think to myself that this day is a day to love fully, and I make the vow to live each moment of it in a way that is beautiful, solid, and free."

- Thich Nhat Hanh


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