The days of talking about resolutions may be behind us for a while, but there is never a bad time to make some small changes that will yield big results. Past February posts from the New Leaf blog suggest a few changes you may want to try now, so you can do more of what…
Category Archives: Values
Happy Thanksgiving
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. – Thornton Wilder At this time, I am especially conscious of how grateful I am for you, my clients, friends and readers. Thank you for your presence in my life. I wish you treasures galore!
Worth Repeating – May posts from New Leaf News
Looking ahead to summer. Remembering the past on Memorial Day. Listening as commencement speakers recall prior achievements and give advice for a lifetime. May is filled with beginnings and endings. What would you like to begin? What would you like to end? Here are a few posts from past Mays to help make today more…
A Thought for Tax Day
There’s only one thing worse than paying income tax, and that’s not paying it. – Anonymous
A Thanksgiving Quote
For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes. Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish diplomat, first Secretary General of the United Nations (1905-1961)
The Won't-Do List
Productivity is as much about what we choose not to do as it is about what we do. (Remember the Evil Overlord List? 100 tongue-in-cheek won’t-do entries that begins, “Being an Evil Overlord seems to be a good career choice.”) With this in mind, I’d like to supplement my list of committed tasks…
No Regrets
When I asked my father, then aged 85 and about to move out of the home he’d built with his own hands 25 years earlier, whether there was anything more he really wanted to do, his response was memorable: “You can always think of more things to do in a day than you can get…
Worth Repeating – July posts from New Leaf News
I’m sharing a few posts from the New Leaf archives. Here’s what was on our mind in Julys past. How can you make progress on a goal that, for lack of a “natural” deadline, seem to take a back seat to everything else? Here are a couple of ideas to help you get it done….
Happy Independence Day
We should constantly be reminded of what we owe in return for what we have. – Eleanor Roosevelt, May 10, 1940 (quoted in No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: the Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin)