Showing posts with label Benjamin Franklin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benjamin Franklin. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Don’t short-change your future.




Grace Bell: workwithgrace Who would you be if you waited 60 seconds every time you had a stressful thought, before you took action? You Might Find Gold In Sixty Seconds

What do you want to create? Do you know?

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Pay it forward



is asking the beneficiary of a good deed to repay it to others instead of to the original benefactor.

 The concept is old, but the phrase may have been coined by Lily Hardy Hammond: "You don't pay love back; you pay it forward.", in her 1916 book In the Garden of Delight.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

We need only sail in natural waters.



Back in the days of sailing vessels, British and American sea captains were faced with a peculiar problem. In crossing westward from England to Boston, the voyage was much slower than when crossing eastward from Boston to England. In fact, the westward crossing took an additional two weeks, which represented considerable loss of time and energy. The owners of the vessels carried their problem to Benjamin Franklin, who was Deputy Postmaster General at that time. Franklin, in turn, consulted a veteran sea captain named Timothy Folger