Kudos to Bill Keating.  

As you know, many of the Thought of the Day notes I send are passed on from my friend Bill Keating.  Bill started sending them to his children when his first child went away to college as a way to stay in touch.  I got on Bill’s distribution list many years ago and have done the same thing with my children, bride, and friends.  It is remarkable how meaningful a daily touch is to the relationships you have with those you love.  Hope you are passing them on to family and friends as well.

Today, Bill sent out his 4000th Thought of the Day!


"Life is what you make it, always has been, always will be.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out."
– Art Linkletter

"Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you react to it."
– Lou Holtz

"Those who can – do.  Those who can’t – criticize."

Keep in mind – "that the work of the critic, is of altogether
secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is
accomplished by the person who does things."
– Theodore Roosevelt

"The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken."
–  George Herbert

Having options is a wonderful thing!

"So much of what we call management consists in making
it difficult for people to work."
– Peter Drucker

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that
which should not be done at all."  
– Peter Drucker

SLOW DANCE
Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.

Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You’d better slow down
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.

Ever told your child,
We’ll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say, "hi"
You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift….
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.