BS: Wise Words for Dec. 1st

Subject: Wise Words for Dec. 1st
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 01 Dec 00 - 07:08 AM

If you are waiting for something to happen before you begin what you want to do, it will never happen. If you are waiting to get something before you do what you say you want to do, you will never get started. If you are waiting for the right time, the right person, the right circumstances, you could be waiting forever.

How about this, what can you do right now? Can you write a letter? Make a call? Finish a plan? Structure a goal? Can you pick a name? Paint a wall? Ask a question? Sweep a floor? Can you structure a schedule? Can you project a date? Can you fulfill a promise? Can you read a book? Can you stop doing all the things you do that keep you from doing the one thing you want to do? Can you pray? Can you sing? Can you dance right where you are? Whatever you can do, you better do it now. Now is all you have to work with.

Acts of Faith, Iyanla Vanzant

Subject: RE: BS: Wise Words for Dec. 1st
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Dec 00 - 07:17 AM

I can't do jack shit. I ain't even got a jack......although I am full of shit.

Good thoughts BonAmi.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Wise Words for Dec. 1st
From: Dave Wynn
Date: 01 Dec 00 - 08:11 AM

".......the beauty , the colours , the light and shade , these things I saw. Look ye also while life lasts....." Denys watkins-Pytchford (Little Grey Men). Doesn't say it all but says enough for me!

Subject: RE: BS: Wise Words for Dec. 1st
From: bflat
Date: 01 Dec 00 - 08:12 AM

Great thoughts, Little Neo. I recently made a number of major life changes and each time I reached that first step in the process beyond conceptual thought, I paused and said to myself, "do it, don't wait." Afterall, the farthest thing from now is the second that just past. Read something like that once. It was a turning point.

bflat

Subject: RE: BS: Wise Words for Dec. 1st
From: LR Mole
Date: 01 Dec 00 - 08:18 AM

"So I guess I better do it while I'm here," says Mr. Ochs.

Subject: RE: BS: Wise Words for Dec. 1st
From: GUEST,Amos
Date: 01 Dec 00 - 08:45 AM

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. ...

Subject: RE: BS: Wise Words for Dec. 1st
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Dec 00 - 09:02 AM

Thanks, Bonnie, excellent and beautiful message.

Subject: RE: BS: Wise Words for Dec. 1st
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Dec 00 - 09:10 AM

Beautiful - but ... Were I to follow this advice, of course, I wouldn't be here on the Mudcat instead of trying to get work done! Gotta love that St. Procrastination...

Subject: RE: BS: Wise Words for Dec. 1st
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 01 Dec 00 - 09:22 AM

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today - because if you like it, you can do it again tomorrow!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Wise Words for Dec. 1st
From: JulieF
Date: 01 Dec 00 - 10:34 AM

Life is what happens when your'e busy planning other things - John Lennon - Beautiful Boy

All the Best

Julie

Subject: RE: BS: Wise Words for Dec. 1st
From: Micca
Date: 01 Dec 00 - 10:44 AM

The moving finger writes,
and having writ,moves on
and all your piety ,nor wit
can call it back to cancel half a line
nor all your tears wash out a word of it
Omar Khyyam (trans FitzGerald)

Subject: RE: BS: Wise Words for Dec. 1st
From: Bert
Date: 01 Dec 00 - 11:26 AM

St. Procrastination!!! I thought that was a railway station in London.

Subject: RE: BS: Wise Words for Dec. 1st
From: Noreen
Date: 01 Dec 00 - 12:14 PM

Thanks for this, Bonnie. Very opportune. I am printing it out now.

And I was going to contribute the John Lennon quote, but Julie got in there first... !

Noreen

Subject: RE: BS: Wise Words for Dec. 1st
From: Whitcher
Date: 01 Dec 00 - 02:46 PM

An idea is something that won't work unless you do. Thomas Edison.

Another thing I am certain about is that I am not paid enough to get ulcers!

Harry

Subject: RE: BS: Wise Words for Dec. 1st
From: Les from Hull
Date: 01 Dec 00 - 03:05 PM

'White rabbits, white rabitts, white rabitts'

Les

Subject: RE: BS: Wise Words for Dec. 1st
From: GUEST,Petr
Date: 01 Dec 00 - 03:08 PM

be what you iz cause if you be what you aint you aint what you iz (on a cowboys headstone)

Subject: RE: BS: Wise Words for Dec. 1st
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 01 Dec 00 - 03:18 PM

"And I was going to contribute the John Lennon quote, but Julie got in there first... !"

I'm pretty sure John Lennon was quoting it himself too - but I don't know who from. Maybe it's a trad quote, a proverb. Well it is now anyway.

The thing is, any time I decide to do something that's been looming over me, I find that there are all kinds of other things which need to be done alongside it and in the course of doing it. So they get done as well. Or instead of it maybe, if I run out of time/energy/resources. But that thing I decided I was going to do something about getting done is important to the whole process, even if ,in the end, it never gets done .

It's like "there's a hole in my bucket" - but the other way round, because you can find other ways of fixing the things that get in the way, and they wouldn't get fixed if you hadn't wanted to mend the hole in th first place.

Subject: RE: BS: Wise Words for Dec. 1st
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 03 Dec 00 - 04:39 PM

I had heard the quote attributed to John Lennon attributed to Gamble Rogers, the guitarist/comedian/raconteur/philosopher.

Dave Oesterreich