October 6th 2012

 “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” John Wayne

July 23rd 2012

 

 

Attempts at enslavement arise primarily from fear. Fear comes about with loss of confidence in one’s ability to make his way. Thus is posed a world where self-confidence is sought by robbing others of theirs. This cannot succeed in a complex society. L. Ron Hubbard

July 18th 2012

“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” – Bill Copeland

February 5th 2012

“One great source of failure is found in a lack of concentration of purpose. There will be adverse winds in every voyage, but the able seaman firmly resists their influence, while he takes advantage of every favorable breeze to speed him on his course.

So in our aims and pursuits we shall find much to counteract them, much to draw our attention from them, and, unless we are armed with a steadfast purpose, that can subordinate the lesser to the greater, that can repel hindrances, resist attractions, and bend circumstances to our will, our efforts will not be crowned with success.” Anonymous

 

February 4th 2012

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. -Napoleon Hill

February 2nd 2012

 

 

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. -Leonardo da Vinci

December 19th 2011

 

 

Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline & inner peace. -Mike Ditka

The Pursuit of Goodness

Just keep swimming, just keep swimming… -Dory

I’m turning a new page in my life. There’s lots in today’s society to grump about but there’s lots more good to be done.

1 in 6 Americans struggle to buy food. 1 in 5 American children go to bed hungry. In 2010 1 in 7 people world wide faced hunger.

Hunger is a problem. We can fix it.

That has become my goal. As a chef and activist I have realized there is something I can do to help end this problem. And this week I have determined to open an establishment with the ultimate goal of helping support local food pantries and feeding hungry families on a weekly basis.

It’s going to take every ounce of strength I have to make this a reality but I’m not going to give up. There is a way. There is always a way to do good.

I want to toss this out at you that what ever good you’re striving to do- do it. Don’t give up on the pursuit of goodness.

December 1st 2011

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.  ~Author Unknown

 

November 29th 2011

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.  ~Thomas Henry Huxley, An Address to the Students of the Faculty of Medicine in University College, London, May 18, 1870, On the Occasion of the Distribution of Prizes for the Session