The Six Mistakes of Man
1. The delusion that personal gain is made by crushing others.
2. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected.
3. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it.
4. Refusal to set aside trivial preferences.
5. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind, and not acquiring
the habit of reading or studying.
6. Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
DOING
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong
man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is
marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and
comes up short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the
great devotions, and who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the
best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the
worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall
never be with those timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."
by Theodore Roosevelt
ATTITUDE
"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to
me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than
education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes,
than what other people think or say or do.It is more important than
appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company...a
church...a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day
regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our
past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We
cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one
string we have, and that is our attitude...I am convinced that life is 10% what
happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in
charge of our attitudes!"
by Charles Swindoll
