by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, How to Set Goals, Quotes and Aphorisms
If you’ve done any white water rafting, you know how exciting it can be. On the first rapid of my first trip I remember the guide yelling, “Row. Row! Row fast!!!” But I did not want to go fast. I wanted to slow down, I preferred to try passing through the rapid “nice and easy.”
That was a mistake. We spun and bounced and nearly capsized. On the next rapid, I dug in with my paddle and rowed like mad. We shot through like an arrow.
I learned the hard way that if you travel down a river at or below the speed of the river’s current, you have no control over where you’re going. You can see the rocks and whirlpools ahead but you have no say as to whether you hit them or go around. Plus, it takes more energy to slow your boat than to speed up. By going slower than the current, you might get through the rapids unscathed but you will feel as significant as a leaf in the wind and know, “I was lucky that time.” By exceeding the speed of the current, the person operating the rudder can give direction to the raft and make sure the raft takes the safest route through the rapids. I remember after that first run, we gave each other “high fives” like a bunch of kids. We were proud and excited, not merely lucky.
That’s called taking control of your life. Your direction. Your destiny. We are only victims if we choose to be. Everyone encounters rocks, rapids, and whirlpools. It’s a fact of life. The choice is to work with the power of the river to make our own path, to exhaust ourselves resisting the flow, or to let it toss us randomly. I prefer to add my own preferences and efforts to the circumstances.
I may not control the outcome but I do have a role.
by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
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What am I attached to? I can free myself from identifying with this outcome and turn my attention toward my true values. –Top Executive Coach Tony Mayo
If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. — Martin Luther King Jr.
The first rule of long-term planning is, “Survive the short term.”
Listen before speaking, empathize before judging, join before leading. –CEO Executive Coach Tony Mayo
Why am I soft in the middle now? The rest of my life is so hard. —Paul Simon
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by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
Karma simply means “action” and is derived from the verbal root kr which mean “to do” or “to make.”
The self is plastic, a malleable clay being molded each moment by intention. Just as our scientists are discovering not only how the mind is shaped by the brain but now, too, how the brain is shaped by the mind, so the Buddha described long ago the interdependent process by which intentions are conditioned by dispositions and dispositions in turn are conditioned by intentions.
–Andrew Olendzki
Karma in Action
Tricycle.
human good turns out to be activity
–Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics
I.1098a13
by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
–Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Attempted to assassinate Hitler and
died in a Nazi prison while writing
Prisoner for God: letters and papers
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, How to Set Goals, Quotes and Aphorisms
… but when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were halfway out of our ruts. We had put down our passage money— booked a sailing to Bombay. This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence.
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves, too. A whole stream of events issues from (more…)
by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
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Inspiration without application is hallucination. –Ernest Holmes
The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances. —Viktor Frankl
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. –James Baldwin
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. –John Quincy Adams
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. –Calvin Coolidge
Humor is also a way of saying something serious. –T. S. Eliot
At the end of the day, I want to be able to say, “I contributed more than I criticized.” —Brené Brown
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by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
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A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
—Herbert Simon in 1971
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Be the change you would see in the world. More on Gandhi here.
Character–the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life–is the source from which self respect springs. — Joan Didion
Meetings suck for information sharing. Get together for collaboration, creativity, & comradery plus promises. More here.
To fall into despair is just a high-class way of turning into a dope. I choose to laugh, and laugh at myself no less than at others. —Saul Bellow
Always leave some money on the table. You’ll probably come back to that table. –Tony Mayo
If you can’t walk away you’re not negotiating, you’re begging. –Tony Mayo
For more on negotiation click here.
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©2010 Tony Mayo
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, Quotes and Aphorisms
we are fundamentally free:
free to view our life,
and respond to it,
as a loving gift
or not.
To love or not to love, that is the question. No argument or evidence can strip us of this freedom that lies at the root of our being and is therefore so ineradicable. How we choose to respond to this awareness—the awareness that love makes us whole and that we are free to love or not—seals our character and defines who we are. An awareness of the power of love and forgiveness forms, in John Fetzer’s phrase, “a community of freedom.”
How we choose, in that freedom, to live out our awareness of the power to love and forgive can completely transform our lives as well as the life of, and the lives in, the world around us.
–Lawrence E. Sullivan
Pres. and CEO
Fetzer Institute
in Fetzer Institute News
by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
–George Bernard Shaw
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, Quotes and Aphorisms
Business is where you practice your human skills. It’s where you grow.
You have to grow!
You grow as a person, and then you will grow in business. That’s how you go forward.
–Andrew Cherng
Founder & Co-CEO
Panda Express
in General Tso, Meet Steven Covey
BusinessWeek
If you’ve done any white water rafting, you know how exciting it can be. On the first rapid of my first trip I remember the guide yelling, “Row. Row! Row fast!!!” But I did not want to go fast. I wanted to slow down, I preferred to try passing through the rapid “nice and easy.”
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