EVERY MOMENT IS PRECIOUS

To realize the value of one year, ask a student who has failed his final exam.

To realize the value of one month, ask a mother who has given birth to a pre-mature baby.

To realize the value of one week, ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize the value of one day, ask a daily wage laborer whom has a family to feed.

To realize the value of one hour, ask lovers who are waiting to meet.

To realize the value of one minute, ask a person who has just missed the plane.

To realize the value of one second, ask a person who has survived an accident.

To realize the value of one milli-second, ask the person who has won a SILVER medal in the Olympics.

WHEN GEESE FLY

Next fall when you see geese heading south for the winter flying along in a "V" formation, you might be interested in knowing what science has discovered about why they fly that way. It has been learned that as each bird flaps its wings, it creates an uplift for the bird immediately following. By flying in a "V" formation, the whole flock adds at least 71% greater flying range than if each bird flew on its own. People who share common direction and sense of community can get where they are going quicker and easier, because they are traveling on the thrust of one another.

Whenever a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of trying to go it alone, and quickly gets into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the bird immediately in front. If we have as much sense as a goose, we will stay in formation with those who are headed the same direction we are going.

When the lead goose gets tired, he rotates back in the wing and another goose flies point. It pays to take turns doing hard jobs. The geese honk from behind to encourage those up front to keep up their speed. An encouraging word goes a long way.

Finally, when a goose gets sick or is wounded by a gun shot and falls out, two geese fall out of formation and follow him down to help and protect him. They stay with him until he is either able to fly or until he is dead, and they launch out on their own or with another formation to catch up with the group. If we have the sense of a goose, we will stand by each other like that.

THE ESSENCE OF IMAGINATION

"What we can easily see is only a small percentage of what is possible. Imagination is having the vision to see what is just below the surface; to picture that which is essential, but invisible to the eye."

THE ESSENCE OF COMPASSION

"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong…because sometime in your life you will have been all of these."

THE ESSENCE OF LEADERSHIP

"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the quality of his actions and the integrity of his intent. In the end, leaders are much like eagles….they don’t flock, you find them one at a time."

THE LIGHT OF INTEGRITY

THE ESSENCE OF ACHIEVEMENT

"The credit belongs to those people who are actually in the arena … who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions to a worthy cause; who at best, know the triumph of high achieve-ment; who, at worst, fail while daring greatly … so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

--Theodore Roosevelt

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