The Future Belongs to the Hungry

"It is clear that the economic future will belong to hungry kids, not entitled kids. It will belong to kids who know how to work hard, delay gratification, make sacrifices, and discipline themselves."

- David Walsh, PhD. No: Why Kids - of all Ages - Need to Hear It and Ways Parents Can Say It. Free Press, Toronto. 2007. pg 18.

Keep Pecking Away

"How many times does a woodpecker peck at the bark of a tree while he is looking for food?

1 time?

10 times?

100 times?

The answer is: Until he gets the job done!

- from Deb Austin Brown's great book Growing Character.

Happy Monday Everyone!

Let's Start off this New Year and New Decade with a positive attitude. Let's work hard to accomplish everything that we want this year.

* photo credit. http://mayo.personcounty.net/Bird%20Folder/bird%20%20page%20woodpeckers.htm

Do Just Half

"You've got to pat attention to the fundamentals. You have to work hard. You have to study. You have to pay attention to real things in life. If you do just half of what your parents tell you, you'll probably be twice as far ahead."

- Tom Brokaw

See it Through

“There is nothing so fatal to character as half-finished tasks.”

- David Lloyd

Worry Destroys

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.
- Henry Ward Beecher