Writer's Musings

Motivational Verse

  • Motivational Monday – December 12, 2016

    If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time-not tomorrow, nor next year, nor in some future life after we have died. The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life… Continue reading

  • The Builders

    Whether you like Donald J. Trump or not, he is a builder and always will be. Here is a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that I came across this afternoon. Perfect tribute on Election Day to Donald J. Trump, the… Continue reading

  • Motivational Monday – October 24, 2016

      Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be… Continue reading

  • Motivational Monday – Oct. 17, 2016

    The last words of Steve Jobs   I have come to the pinnacle of success in business.  In the eyes of others, my life has been the symbol of success.  However, apart from work, I have little joy. Finally, my… Continue reading

  • Motivational Monday – October 10, 2016

    We can all endure disaster and tragedy, and triumph over them – if we have to. We may not think we can, but we have surprisingly strong inner resources that will see us through if we will only make use… Continue reading

  • Motivational Monday – October 3, 2016

      Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better. Edgar W. Howe   Until next time. Stop and smell the roses.… Continue reading

  • Motivational Monday – Week 7

    The shaping of our life is our own work. It is a thing of beauty, or a thing of shame, as we ourselves make it. We lay the corner and add joint to joint, we give the proportion, we set… Continue reading

  • Motivational Monday – Week 6

      “Do you know that if you are courteous and pleasant all day during your work that you will go home at night less fatigued than if you gave way to irritation? Pleasantry, light laughs, relieve tension. It isn’t work… Continue reading

  • Motivational Monday – Week 5

    With prayers, all things are possible to God. I missed my postings last week. I was in a bit of a crisis. Doing a post for Motivational Monday was the last thing in my mind. On Monday last week, my… Continue reading

  • Lo, How A Rose E’er Blooming

    Lo, how a rose e’er blooming, From tender stem hath sprung! Of Jesse’s lineage coming, As men of old have sung; It came, a flow’ret bright, Amid the cold of winter, When half spent was the night.   Isaiah ‘twas… Continue reading