There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. - Nelson Mandela, 11th President of South Africa
Bonjour from Luzern, Switzerland!
As I am writing this Tuesday Tip of the Week, I am sitting outside in gorgeous Luzern, Switzerland. To my left, I see the amazing Alps and to my right are beautiful hotels. In future blog posts, I will tell you more about this amazing European adventure I have been blessed to experiene, but right now here is something I was reminded of during one of my great hikes!
On my first day here, I saw the name GUTSCH on a hilltop and saw a castle like building behind it. Immediately, I became enamoured to discover what this place was. After researching, I learned that it is a beautiful chateau situated in the middle of the Alps. With the adventurous spirit that I currently have, I decided one night to walk up to it. Before I left, I checked the map and it was only about a mile and half away from my hotel. So I started walking to find this intriguing place.
As I walked along, I soon discovered that I had not taken the right road suggested on the map so I started looking for signs to find my destination. There was one building that had Gutsch on it, but looked like apartments or condos. As I was about to give up and head back to my hotel, I checked the Compass on my phone to discover I was on the right path. During my journey, I turned left and started climbing a very inclined road. To me, it seemed the right way to go because the Chateau was up on a hill, but checking my Compass again I soon discovered I had detoured again. Soon, I was back on the right path to my final destination. After about 25 minutes and various detours along the way, I made it to Chateau Gutsch.
Walking back to my hotel, I was thinking about this experience and knew immediately that it would be a great story to tell for this week's blog post. Over the last couple of weeks, Terri's Tuesday Tip of the Week has been discussinng goal setting for 2015. This experience was a great example for our lives. There are times that we set goals and have the best intentions of accomplishing them. However, there are detours, trials and tribulations that come along that try to stop us from completing them. Having written goals and a purpose statement provide the Compass to our lives to make sure we stay on the right path. As I was reminded when I saw the view from the Chateau Gutsch looking down over Luzern, pushing through all the distractions, detours and trials is well worth it to win the prize.
Au Revoir
To see pictures of Chateau Gutsch, go to: http://www.chateau-guetsch.ch/home
Monday, December 22, 2014
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Terri's Tuesday Tip of the Week - Decembner 16th
Efforts
and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. -John F. Kennedy
Life Is Like A
Cafeteria
A friend's grandfather came to
America from Eastern Europe. After being processed at Ellis Island, he went
into a cafeteria in lower Manhattan to get something to eat. He sat down at an
empty table and waited for someone to take his order. Of course nobody did.
Finally, a woman with a tray full of food sat down opposite him and informed
him how a cafeteria worked.
"Start out at that end,"
she said. "Just go along the line and pick out what you want. At the other
end they'll tell you how much you have to pay."
"I soon learned that's how
everything works in America," the grandfather told a friend. "Life's
a cafeteria here. You can get anything you want as long as you are willing to
pay the price.
You can even get success, but
you'll never get it if you wait for someone to bring it to you. You have to get
up and get it yourself."
To obtain success, John Kennedy said you need purpose and
direction. Last week Terri’s Tuesday Tip
of the Week discussed creating SMART goals, which described the 5 parts of a
good goal. The next step in creating
goals are the specific areas that you write your goals in:
1. Family
2. Faith
3. Finances
4. Friendships
5. Fitness
6. Fun
These 6 areas should be the main focus for our lives. They will provide direction and purpose with an end result of success!
Have an
awesome week!
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Terri's Tuesday Tip of the Week - December 9th
A goal is
a dream with a deadline. - Napoleon Hill
Charles Krauthammer is an American Pulitzer Prize winning
columnist, author, political commentator and physician. Krauthammer had a strong education growing up
and had big dreams for his life. He graduated
from McGill University in 1970 with Honors with political science and economics
degrees. After attending Oxford, he
returned to the United States to attend Harvard Medical School. During a swim between classes, Krauthammer’s
head hit the bottom of the pool and he was paralyzed from his neck down. In a recent interview, he said that he knew
the moment his head hit the bottom of the swimming pool that his life would
never be the same again.
Krauthammer did NOT let this
accident keep him down. During his
14 month hospital stay, he continued his medical studies at Harvard by reading
his text books while lying flat on his back.
At times, he would read 2 text books at once because he had to wait for
someone to turn the page for him and he did not want to waste time. In 1975, he graduated from Harvard with his
M.D.
Krauthammer decided that he wanted to be challenged in other
ways so he went to Washington, D.C. in 1978 and started working in the Carter
administration. Through the years, he
worked as a speech writer for the Mondale campaign, assisted with speeches for President
Reagan and President Clinton. In the
early 2000s, he became a Fox News political analyst.
As you continue to work on your goals for 2015, what do you
want to do? Charles Krauthammer has proven
that NOTHING can stop us in life.
Remember to make SMART goals…
S
- Specific
M
- Measurable
A
- Attainable
R -
Realistic
T
– Timely
To learn more about Charles Krauthammer, here is an
interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd8BZKHiHUY.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Terri's Tuesday Tip of the Week - December 2nd
Who am I??
·
1816: Family was
forced out of their home. Had to work to support them.
·
1818: Mother died.
·
1831: Failed in
business.
·
1832: Ran for the state
legislature - lost.
·
1832: Lost job - wanted
to go to law school but couldn’t get in.
·
1833: Borrowed some
money from a friend to begin a business and by the end of the year was
bankrupt. Spent the next 17 years of life paying off debt.
·
1834: Ran for state
legislature again - won.
·
1835: Engaged to be
married, his sweetheart died and his heart was broken.
·
1836: Had a total
nervous breakdown and was in bed for six months.
·
1838: Sought to
become speaker of the state legislature - defeated.
·
1840: Sought to
become elector - defeated.
·
1843: Ran for
Congress - lost.
·
1846: Ran for
Congress again - this time won - went to Washington and did a good job.
·
1848: Ran for
re-election to Congress - lost.
·
1849: Sought the job
of land officer in his home state - rejected.
·
1854: Ran for Senate
of the United States - lost.
·
1856: Sought the
Vice-Presidential nomination at his party’s national convention - got less than
100 votes.
·
1858: Ran for U.S.
Senate again - again he lost.
·
1860: Elected
president of the United States.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln is one of the great Presidents. During a recent biography I was watching, it
said he knew that he was destined to change the world. He knew he could not give up and had to keep
fighting no matter the outcome.
As we are 30 days away from 2015, have you written down your
goals for next year?
Have you thought about those things you have wanted to do,
but have felt defeated and didn’t think you could? Have you ever felt that everything was
against you and that don’t know why you are still fighting? Decide in 2015 that no matter what, you will
accomplish your goals.
Remember these words from Abraham Lincoln as you prepare to
have an amazing 2015...
Always
bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any
other.
Sources:
http://www.snopes.com/glurge/lincoln.asp#ZT7mHshvIGAY0B0X.99
http://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln77.html
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