Talk To Your Self » Wisdom Is Where You Find It. http://talktoyourself.com Change Your Self-Talk, Change your Life! Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:35:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2006-2011 gene@talktoyourself.com (Talk To Your Self) gene@talktoyourself.com (Talk To Your Self) 1440 http://talktoyourself.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Talk To Your Self http://talktoyourself.com 144 144 Change Your Self-Talk, Change your Life! Talk To Your Self Talk To Your Self gene@talktoyourself.com no no What’s your name? Learn to talk to yourself and others from a child. http://talktoyourself.com/2010/02/26/whats-your-name-learn-to-talk-to-yourself-and-others-from-a-child/ http://talktoyourself.com/2010/02/26/whats-your-name-learn-to-talk-to-yourself-and-others-from-a-child/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:10:32 +0000 Gene http://talktoyourself.com/2010/02/26/whats-your-name-learn-to-talk-to-yourself-and-others-from-a-child/ Hi, my name is David Wilson, this is Fred Wilson, this is Mommy Wilson, and this is Daddy Wilson. What’s your name?
My name is Bob.
What’s your last name?
My last name is Harold.

Elevator opens and another man comes in.

Hi, my name is David Wilson, this is Fred Wilson, this is Mommy Wilson and this is Daddy Wilson. What’s your name?
My name is Neal.
What’s your last name?
My last name is so hard to pronounce.
What’s your last name?
My last name is Tanaka.

While we were in Las Vegas David went through the above process with several different people at different times. I observed with a smile in my heart and I thought how sweet it was to live in the present moment as my son asked his questions with joy. I felt joy as we experienced the moments together, David Wilson, Fred, Wilson, Mommy Wilson and Daddy Wilson and the people who used to be strangers when David asked the Question, “What’s your name?”

As adults we sometimes find it difficult to just ask the questions we are curious about. My son is living proof that at four years eleven months old it is possible to effectively communicate with people he has not met before. I was going to say he found it easy to communicate with strangers but I do not believe David has ever met a stranger.

Think for a moment and then tell yourself and me what a child can teach you about living life in the moment.

Hi, my name is Daddy Wilson. What’s your name?

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

- Thomas A. Edison

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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

- Thomas A. Edison


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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

-  Samuel Ullman

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

– Samuel McChord

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Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

- Og Mandino     

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Nothing happens by itself… it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

– Mickey Rooney

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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.

- Mickey Rooney

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The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

- Mickey Rooney  

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

– Mickey Rooney

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

- Michael Faraday   

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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

– Maxim Gorky

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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

–   Maxim Gorky

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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.

– Mary Pickford

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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

-  Mary Pickford

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