Friday Filosophy #2015-39

I’d like to begin our Friday Filosophy #2015-29 by wishing each and every one of you a wonderful Thanksgiving Day. I grew up in Canada and Thanksgiving is October, close to Columbus Day, and that is also close to my birthday, I love pumpkin pie. So have some cider, or whatever your choice of beverage, enjoy turkey and the complete meal. Most important of all please enjoy your families. Cheers!

 

Our rural ancestors, with little blest,

Patient of labour when the end was rest,

Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,

With feasts, and off’rings, and a thankful strain.

Alexander Pope

 

What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

Erma Bombeck

 

Thanksgiving, after all is a word of action.

J. Cameron

 

Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.

Robert Caspar Lintner

 

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not a coincidence.

Erma Bombeck

 

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day

Irv Kupcinet

 

The time is now.

Friday Filosophy #2015-38

Tomorrow is a very special day. My daughter is getting married. Friday Filosophy #2015-38 offers some quotations about marriage. Have a great day, sweetheart.

 

It is not a lack of love, bit a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

 

Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup with drink but drink not from one cup. Give one another your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each of you be alone. Even as the strings of the lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.

Khalin Gibran

  

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it’s not based on respect nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

Amy Grant

 

I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

 

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Ellen Key

 

The time is now.

Friday Filosophy #2015-37

These may be weekend philosophies at times.  For Friday Filosophy #2015-37 we have chosen to focus upon the season with our quotes today.

Now that we are completely in the Autumn season and the clocks have all moved back let’s reflect on the season.

 

Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.

Albert Camus

 

Delicious Autumn. My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

George Eliot

 

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

Robert Frost

 

Autumn arrives early in the morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

Elizabeth Bowen

 

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster to the sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as it could not be, as if it had not been.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

 

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

B. C. Forbes

 

The time is now.

Marketing Monday v2015.1

We haven’t done one of these in a long time.  For Marketing Monday v2015.1 we are catching up.

With the flurry of activity this past year it has been a little difficult to get ahead of the curve. Some of the recent activities:

We have launched learning Without Scars. This has been a very nice step in the progression of our offering learning products and services to the capital goods industries. We have updated all of our classroom seminars: there are eight. We have added to our list of webinars: there are now sixty one. We have started down the road of converting all learning products to a web based platform: we will have seventy five of them. We are moving toward the translations of our offerings first into French and Spanish.

We have developed an internet based replacement for the twenty group business we ran called insight (M&R) Institute. We have created, in a partnership, The Capital Goods Sages. This is going to be an internet business modelling business. This will be available for use in late 2015.

And finally, we have re-purposed our consulting website to bring it in line with our other businesses.

Have a look and let us know your thoughts. We are here to serve you.

www.rjslee.com

www.learningwithoutscars.org

www.thecapitalgoodssages.com

The time is now.

 

Friday Filosophy #2015-36

For our late Friday Filosophy #2015-36 we present some serious comments about life from some pretty incredible people. Enjoy!

 

Life is not about finding yourself.  Life is about creating yourself. 

George Bernard Shaw

 

Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated. 

Confucius

 

Very little is needed to make a happy life, it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. 

Marcus Aurelius

 

Do not dwell on the past, do not dream about the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. 

Buddha

 

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. 

Abraham Lincoln

 

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. 

Bertrand Russell

 

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. 

Arthur Rubenstein

 

The time is now.