Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
"Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today."

-Horace

Give Me A Break

A physical worker can do more work if he takes more time out for rest. Frederick Taylor demonstrated that while working as a scientific management engineer with the Bethlehem Steel Company. He observed that laboring men were loading approximately 12.5 tons of pig iron per man each day on freight cars and that they were exhausted at noon. He made a scientific study of all the fatigue factors involved, and declared that these men should be loading not 12.5 tons of pig iron per day, but 47 tons per day! He figured that they ought to do almost four times as much as they were doing, and not be exhausted. But prove it!


Taylor selected a Mr. Schmidt who was required to work by the stopwatch. Schmidt was told by the man who stood over him with a watch, “Now pick up a ‘pig’ and walk…Now sit down and rest…Now walk…Now rest.”

What happened? Schmidt carried 47 tons of pig iron each day while the other men carried only 12.5 tons per man. And he practically never failed to work at this pace during the three years that Frederick Taylor was at Bethlehem. Schmidt was able to do this because he rested before he got tired. He rested more that he worked – yet he did almost four times as much work as the others!

Time Management

If you've got a free hour you should watch this video. It's good!

Randy Pausch - Time Management Lecture

Need More Time??

Napoleon vs. Helen Keller

"The mind is its own place, and in itself

Can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven."

- Milton

"Napoleon and Helen Keller are perfect illustrations of Milton's statement: Napoleon had everything men usually crave -- glory, power, riches -- yet he said at Saint Helena, 'I have never known six happy days in my life'; while Helen Keller -- blind, deaf, dumb -- declared: 'I have found life so beautiful.'

If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that as Emerson put it, 'Nothing can bring you  peace but yourself.'"

-Dale Carnegie

"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted."
-Randy Pausche
  The Last Lecture

Is there a good side to temptation?

"There is a law written across the universe, that no one shall be crowned unless he has first struggled. No halo of merit rests suspended over those who do not fight.
Ice deserves no credit for being cold, nor fire for being hot; it is only those who have the possibility of choice that can be praised for their acts. It is through temptation and its strain that the depths of character are revealed."
-Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Blessed is he who endures under trials. When he has proved his worth, He will win that crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.             James 1:12

"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life, which is required to be exchanged for it immediately or in the long run."

-Henry David Thoreau