Don't Waste Your Life - From the Heart, with John Willard
Channel: CNA TV - NAHCA Broadcasting Network
Date: 16/07/2019

My opening thought- Well done is better than well said! 

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.

Before you can write a check, you must make out a deposit slip. Before you can draw money out of a bank, you must put money into the bank. Before you are entitled to a living, you must give the world a life.

If you want to make a first-class living, learn to give the world a first-class life.

Treat the light things in life very seriously and the serious things very lightly.

Great art is not restricted to painting, writing, sculpture, or music. There’s another art at which we all can excel. It is what Henry Thoreau called the highest of arts- the art of living.

People who practice it are not artists in the usual sense. They are people who, through the nobility of their lives have affected what Thoreau called- THE QUALITY OF THE DAY.

Years ago this was written about. Pointing out that there are countless obscure people who practice this art– good people who quietly affect the lives of those about them without even being aware they are doing It, winning no commendation and expecting none.

“Everybody at one time or another has known such people, strangers, relatives, or friends,” who have changed the quality of the day for others.

They come into a room in a dark hour- a sickroom, say, or a death room, a room without hope, or merely in an hour when we are lonely or discouraged.

They may say little if anything. But the shining quality of goodness radiates from them, from their mere presence, and where there was dark there is light. Where there was cowardice there is courage, and where there was a listlessness there is love of life. 

“These friends or relatives– or wonderful strangers met at a picnic or a hospital waiting room– all these, humble and unaware, carry with them the kindness and generosity of their lives.

These are the greatest artists, they practice the greatest of arts- the art of living, the art of life itself!

My final thought- “You can’t do much about the length of your life, but you can do a lot about it’s depth and width.”

Many things will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart – pursue those-

You can reach me on Twitter @JohnWillard47


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