The Daily Ripple
The Daily Ripple
| “There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.” ~Zig Ziglar~ No shortcuts here. Give Zink a rope, a vine, a tree — it’s the hard way up, hand over hand, because that’s the only way that actually gets you anywhere real. Nobody hands you the top. You climb for it, one pull at a time, arms burning, and you don’t stop halfway because it got hard. Not toughness for show. Just how stuff gets done. The Dude 🐸 Thought for the Day Take the stairs. Every time. |
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.”~ Henry David Thoreau ~ Dreams are rest stops on this long trip — a chance to catch your breath and see how far you’ve come before you decide where you’re headed next. Thoreau’s not talking about waiting around for things to line…
“We need to learn to use technology in a way that promotes mindfulness and balance, rather than mindlessness and addiction.”~Arianna Huffington~ Tink doesn’t need a routine for this. He just does it. Game’s over, glove comes off, phone stays in the bag a little longer. He takes it all in first — the field, the…
“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”~ Confucius (translation, Analects 2.17) ~ Most of us have the first half down. We know what we know. We’ll tell you about it, too. Loudly. At dinner. The second half is where the real knowledge lives. Saying “I don’t know”…
“You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.”~Walt Schmidt~ Some days adversity shows up loud — a hard conversation, a stack of papers you’ve been avoiding, a friend who needs you to just listen. You don’t dodge it. You step into the ring with it, round after round, and you come out sharper. Today’s…
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”~ John Muir ~ Look at a river long enough and you start to see it. Every tributary feeds the next one. Every stream finds its way to something bigger. Nothing out there is doing it alone……
“…the last of the human freedoms: to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.”~ Viktor Frankl ~ Frankl lost nearly everything in the Nazi camps. But he wrote that a person can keep their spiritual freedom and independence of mind, even there. His body was held. His mind wasn’t. Your circumstances today are…