mardi 30 novembre 2010

If You Do Different, You Will Have Different!

If you continue to do what you've always done, you will continue to have what you've always had. If you do different, you will have different.

Phillip C. McGraw

I Enjoy Every Single Minute Of My Life!

For me, this is the most important thing to remember. When you’re enjoying what you do, you’re more likely to do it well and to be successful. Enjoying every situation is an art, a skill, and can be developed. Maybe it comes naturally to some people, but for most of us, it takes a little practice. But believe me, it will make an enormous difference to the quality of your life.

Richard Branson

The best leaders have employees.....

The best leaders have employees who follow them anywhere...they understand results are achieved not because they have the perfect strategy or know how to give orders, but because the people who work for them feel empowered to do their very best.

Carol Hymowitz

Proverbe Chinois #1

Ne craignez pas d'être lent, caraignez seulement d'être à l'arrêt.

Proverbe Chinois

Saviez Vous #5

Le Sputnik 1 fut le premier satellite artificiel à être lancé en espace!

lundi 29 novembre 2010

Un brin de folie 1

Mon chien Nico a été sur le vétérinaire. Je pensais qu’il savait casser une patte. Bien que la vétérinaire me dit que tout était correcte avec sa patte, je lui est quand même demandé pour une deuxième opinion.

C'est alors que la vétérinaire a fait entrer un chat qui a senti mon petit Nico pendant un long moment et qui est tout de suite reparti. Une vraie joke! la vétérinaire voulait me charger 50$ de plus pour le Cat Scan!!! :P

Bad relationship drain energy.....

Bad relationship drain energy, they drain power, they hurt effectiveness. They also take inordinate amounts of time, which is one thing that successfull people know they absolutely cannot afford to squander.

Ronna Lichtenberg
From the book: It's Not Business It's Personal

The Best Way To Respond To Bullies

My experience is that the best way to respond to bullies is just a big smile, and a thank you, thank you.

John Limbert

I have always regarded regret......

I have always regarded regret as a useless emotion. And I have never looked back at my mistakes, except to make sure I would not repeat them.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau
From the book Memoirs

dimanche 28 novembre 2010

Ce n'est pas ce que nous....

Ce n'est pas ce que nous savons qui nous handicape, mais ce que nous savons et qui est faux....

M. Erickson

The legislature....

The legislature and its rules may not be perfect, but they've served this province well for many years.

Victor Boudreau
Taken from the Telegraph Journal
Friday November 26, 2010

I appeal to every producer....

I appeal to every producer not to release ''sponsored'' moving picture.... Believe me, if you jam advertising down their throats and pack their eyes and ears with it, you will build up a resentment that will in time damn your business.

Carl Laemmle of Universal Pictures, 1931
Taken from the book ''No Logo''
By Naomi Klein

Saviez vous #3

Saviez vous que Cap Kennedy étais l'ancien nom de Cap Canaveral!

samedi 27 novembre 2010

Today you need the ability and willpower....

Creating bulletproof products and defensible strategic positions is yesterday's game. Today you need the ability and willpower to constantly develop and deploy new products than respond to changing customer needs. It requires an organization with the flexibility and competitive energy of a kid playing a video game rather than the analytical consistency of a grand master trying to hang on in a three-day chess match.

Jan Carendi

Tout ce que nous craignons....

Tout ce que nous craignons, c'est de perdre ce que nous possédons, qu'il s'agisse de notre vie ou de nos cultures. Mais cette crainte cesse lorsque nous comprenons que notre histoire et l'histoire du monde ont été écrites par la même Main.

Paulo Coelho
L'alchimiste

Saviez Vous #2

Saviez vous que Burt Reynolds a eu le plus grand succès au box-office en 1980

Life Knows!

....Out beyond the shadows of our old thinking, a wholly different world appears. A world that delights in our explorations, our desires,our need to join with others. A world that welcomes and supports our endeavors. The world knows how to grow and change. It has been doing so for billions of years. Life knows how to create systems. Life knows how to create greater capacity. Life knows how to discover meaning. The motions that we sought to wrestle from life's control are available to us to support our desires if we can stop being so afraid.

A Simpler Way
Margaret J. Whealey and Myron Kellner-Rogers

vendredi 26 novembre 2010

Climbing Has Taught Me....

Climbing has taught me that commitment is a process, an inner climb of the mountains of the minds.

From the book: Seven Mountains,
The Inner Climb to Commitment and Caring
By Marilyn Mason.

On ne s'invente pas une mission, on la laisse se révéler à soi!

On ne s'invente pas une mission, on la laisse se révéler à soi. Les stratégies utilisées pour découvrir sa mission ne sont que des moyens facilitant la réflexion et la méditation sur les réalités intérieures telles que les passions, les appels intérieurs, les visions, les intuitions, les enthousiasmes, les fantaisies, les rêves, les intérêts, les désir....etc...

Du livre: À chacun sa mission.
Découvrir son projet de vie
Jean Monbourquette

Let Every Man....

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

From the book: The World As I See It
Albert Einstein

You And Only You Make The Rules

Life becomes possible when you realize that you and only you make the rules.

Karen Schaffer
The job of your life

Saviez vous #1

Saviez vous que Mick Jagger a étudié au London School of Economics pendant deux ans!

jeudi 25 novembre 2010

To Inspire

To inspire and empower cancer sufferers and their famalies under the motto: Unity is strength, knowledge is power, and attitude is everything.

The lance Armstrong Foundation
mention in the book Always Looking Up
By Michael J. Fox

Petite extrait du livre le voyageur de la sagesse.

Si la vie en soi est un privilège, la vivre à plein est un choix!

De l'auteur Andy Andrews
Le voyageur de la sagesse

Water Is A Universal Symbol!

Water is a universal symbol of mystery and the unconscious. Fly-fishing, then, involves standing in mystery, as it does any other genuine encounter with wilderness.

Author: Larry Dossey
The Extra Ordinary Healing Power of Ordinary things

Quand je me retrouve seul!

Quand je me retrouve seul, livré à moi-même, j'ai l'âme en paix, je me sens très fort!

Anthony Hopkins

Qui a écrit les paroles d'Un Canadien errant?

Abtoine Gérin-Lajoie étudiant en rhétorique a écrit les paroles d'Un Canadien errant!

mercredi 24 novembre 2010

All Of Us....

All of us, regardless of our genetic endowment, can be audacious.

Scott Shane
From Motivated Magazine
Summer 2010

He Was In The Habit Of Repeating Himself

¨Deirdre, will you just settle down. You're hysterical, just hysterical.¨ Because he was a professor,he was in the habit of repeating himself


From the book: Running with Scissors
Augusten Burroughs

Post-iT Note

Although the invention of the post-it note might have been somewhat accidental, the creation of the 3M environment that allowed it was anything but an accident.

From the book: Built To Last
Successful Habits Of Visionary Companies
James C. Collins / Jerry I. Porras

We Always Ask Nature To Pay The Price!

We always ask nature to pay the price fore our economic problem. It's the biosphere that allows us to make a living.

David Suzuki
In a speach deliver to the Atlantic Green Show
As reported by the Telegraph Journal

Souffrons, mais souffrons sur les cimes!

<< Souffrons, mais souffrons sur les cimes! >>

Extrait du livre de Victor Hugo, ¨Les Malheureux¨

mardi 23 novembre 2010

Combien de joueurs y'a t'il dan sune équipe de water-polo

Saviez-vous qu'une équipe de water-polo est composée de 7 joueurs!

How Fast Are You Going When You're Standing Still?

How fast are you going when you're standing still?

To someone standing next to you at the equator, zero latitude, you'd appear stationary. To a Martian hovering over Earth, however, you'd appear to be spinning at 1675 kilometres an hour.From the Sun, it would look like you were riding a terrestrial Tilt-A-Whirl and orbiting the home star at 96560 kilometres an hour.

Reader's Digest
January 2003

Tout Est Création

Pour moi, tout est création; chacun de nos gestes, chacune de nos pensées, chacune de nos entreprises est création. Tout contribue à la création de soi et du monde. Tout participe au déploiment du vivant et de de la conscience.

Guy Corneau
Du livre Le meilleur de soi

Changing The Way We Live

Changing the way we live is not merely a feel good choice we should make, but rather something imperative to our survival on an increasingly fragile planet.

David Suzuki
Speach deliver to the Atlantic Green Show
As reported by the Telegraph Journal

A Father And Son discussion

I found that passage Funny:

¨Make sure the top is closed you don't want that bag breaking open and spilling garbage all over the floor. That would just be a nightmare to clean up!¨

I dragged one of the bags across the floor toward the door. ¨Son, don't drag that bag! You'll tear the bottom and we'll have garbage all over the place. I just warned you about that.¨

¨You said check the tops,¨ I said. ¨Yes but it should go without saying that you can't drag a garbage across the floor.¨

He was wrong. I'd seen the commercials for Hefty garbage bags on TV. ¨They don't break.¨

From the book: Running with Scissors
Augusten Burroughs

lundi 22 novembre 2010

The Biggest Risk You Run In Life

The biggest risk you run in life is having fifteen people sitting around a table all agreeing with everything you say. If that'sthe environment you work in, you're going to blow up one day.

Ken Langone

I Notice That Nice Was Killing My Job Opportunities

I notice that nice was killing my job opportunities because I was too afraid of hurting people's feelings, even if the outcome would be amazing.

Karen Schaffer
The job of your life

What We Keep Calling Growth

Things can't grow forever in a finite world. What we keep calling growth, growth growth is suicide!

David Suzuki

Histoire de Vodka!

Saviez vous que la compagnie Smirnoff a fourni la vodka à la cour impériale russe de 1886 à 1917!

dimanche 21 novembre 2010

CEOs egos.

Big headquarters are there for one thing, to stroke the ego of the CEO and most CEOs already have big enought egos.

Albert J. Dunlap
I kind of like this person before Sunbeam. To bad, his book Mean Business as a lot of good stuff in it!

Joke of the day!

If you do a good job and work hard, you may get a promotion..... at an another company some day!

Sad but true....

Insolite

Saviez vous que Chicago est la ville ayant le téléphone public le plus occupé au monde avec 270 appels par jour! Allo les infections d'oreille

Un Petit Geste Vert

Cette semaine j'éteins les lumières dans les pièces que je ne suis pas.

We Are Overweights

New Brunswick is the most obese province in Canada. Almost 30 per cent of the population is overweight compared to the national average of about 18 per cent.

Source: Telegraph Journal
Thursday, November 18, 2010

samedi 13 novembre 2010

Fact about Diabetes

1- The Canadian Diabetes Association reports that more than 3 million Canadians have the disease, 90 per cent of them mostly adults with type 2 diabetes.

2- Type 1 diabetes usually strikes people under 30. They don't produce enough insulin.

3- Type 2 diabetes is characterized by insulin resistance. The body partially or totally can't use the hormone insulin to regulate the amount of sugar in the blood.

4- Uncontrolled diabetes can harm nerves and blood vessels, causing complications such as blindness, kidney disease, dental problems and may result in limb amputation.

5- 80% per cent of people with diabetes died from heart attacks or stroke.

Learn more in Zoomer Magazine
Article: Sugar Rush. Type 2 diabetes, which affects older people,is on the rise.
November 2010

Un Schème De Pensée Constructif

Des travaux de recherche ont révélé qu'il faut quatre à dix répétitions d'un schème de pensée pour semer ce qui se développera en une action.

Tom Hopkins
Le guide du succès
Les Éditionsde de L'Homme

Qui De Nous?

Qui de nous peut se vanter d'attacher autant d'importance à sa santé qu'il en attache à son travail, à sa voiture, à ses vêtements, à sa maison, à sa déclaration de revenus?

Si les gens mettaient autant d'importance à nourrir leur cerveau qu'ils en mettent à nourrir leur estomac, la société prendrait alors un aspect drôlement plus positif qu'actuellement.

Dr. Gilles Lapointe
Du livre: Docteur aidez-moi
Les éditions Québecor

jeudi 11 novembre 2010

Faut-il courrir pieds nus?

Faut-il courrir pieds nus? Oui, affirment certains chercheurs et sportifs: c'est meilleur pour vos articulations et votre portefeuille!

Article intéressant du Reader's Digest
Septembre 2010

Doris Kearns Goodwin On Abraham Lincoln

It was history that gave him the opportunity to manifest his greatness, providing the stage that allowed him to shape and transform our national life.

Doris Kearns Goodwin
From the books: Team of Rivals
The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Those Who Are Wise

Victory creates hatred, defeat creates suffering. Those who are wise strive for neither victory nor defeat.

Maha Ghosananda

Paradise Lost

Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood, were the right way was lost.

Dante

mercredi 10 novembre 2010

The Destiny Of Civilized Humanity

The destiny of civilized humanity depends more than ever on the moral forces it is capable of generating.

Albert Einstein

We Don't Want Lots Of Customers. We Want Lots Of The Right Customers.

Most companies seem to want as many customer as they can get. At 37 signals, we don't want lots of customers. We want lots of the right customers. Our goal is to maximize profits, not market share.

We also want to maximize happiness, for our customer and for ourselves. The more people you have using your products, and the more people you have working at your company, the harder it becomes to keep everyone happy all the time.

So when we set out to put a price tag on Draft, we decided not to pay attention to what what the other drawing apps sell for. We didn't look to compete on price.

Jason Fried
Co-Founder of 37 signals
Inc. Magazine
November 2010

mardi 9 novembre 2010

L'importance de la vue dans le processus d'apprentissage!

Les êtres humains acquièrent plus de 80% de leur connaissance par l'intermédiaire du sens de la vue.

Ibrahim Elfiky

La Frustration Existentielle

Viktor Frankl définit la frustration existentielle comme une absence radicale de sens dans sa vie. Le manque de raison d'être est à l'origine de la névrose spirituelle, spécialement chez une personne qui a perdu toute passion.

Viktor Frankl

One Day At A Time

When we take time to notice
the simple things in life,
we never lack for encouragement.

We discover that we are surrounded
by limitless hope
that's just wearing eveyday clothes.

Anonymous

dimanche 7 novembre 2010

Stats on Potash!

95 per cent of the world potash consumption is used in fertilizers.

Only 8 per cent of the world's potash consumption is in North America. 42 per cent is consumed in Asia and 12 per cent in Latin America.

Source: Telegraph Journal
Friday November 5, 2010

Stats On Cropland!

Due primarily to the introduction of fertilizers, since 1900 total cropland farmed in the world is up only 30 per cent while total crop harvest is up 600 per cent.

Source: Telegraph Journal
Friday November 5, 2010

You Compete Against Other Provinces Because That's The Nature Of Canada

You compete against other provinces because that's the nature of Canada, but when you co-operate you get great benefits for the population.

Gary Doer, Canadian Ambassador to the United States
Taken from the Telegraph Journal,
Friday November 5th 2010

samedi 6 novembre 2010

Think Globally, Act Locally

Think globally, act locally. To approach your own life with genuine and committed artistry inevitably implies contributing positively to the global work; to make a real commitment to the planet as a whole will, as inevitably and beneficially, affect the shape and progress of your life as an individual soul immersed in the symphony.

Christopher Childs
From the book: The Spirit's Terrain
Creativity, Activism, and Transformation

Citation de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The hardest thing to do is see what is in front of your eyes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

vendredi 5 novembre 2010

Evaluating The Whole Picture!

Our performances are determined by some individual factors, like skill and effort, but also by factors beyond our direct control like decisions made by others,ressources allotted to us, the system in which we work and so on!

From the Book Performance Management
Robert Bacal

mercredi 3 novembre 2010

What Have You Achieved

You can be busy and going home late, but what have you achieved if all that you've done is internal? You have to be out serving clienys too.

Hector Jacques

Great Thoughts

Think of the small at large and the few as many.
Confront the difficult while it is still easy.
Accomplish the great task by a series of small acts.

From the book:
Real Power Business Lessons from the Tao Te Ching

Aujourd'hui je décide d'être heureux!

Aujourd'hui je décide d'être heureux.Je souris ou j'éclate de rire, même si je me sens triste. Et bientôt, je me sens joyeux, comme je l'ai décidé.

Andy Andrews
Du live : Le voyageur de la sagesse

mardi 2 novembre 2010

The Only Thing.......

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its innefficiency.

Eugene McCarthy

If you are not fired with......

If you are not fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Vince Lombardi

lundi 1 novembre 2010

Nous savons à peu près ce que nous voulons devenir.....

Nous savons à peu près ce que nous voulons devenir, mais nous nous heurtons toujours aux doutes, aux peurs et à l'insécurité.

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoché
Du livre: Le bonheur est entre vos mains.
Petit guide du Bouddhisme à l'usage de tous.

Any Challenge In Life Should Be Faced With.......

Any challenge in life should be faced with enthusiasm and a good sense of humor.

Denis Waitley
From the book: The New Dynamics Of Goal Setting

To Be A Successfull Goal Setter

I believe that to be a successfull goal setter, you must find ways to think positively about your work.

Denis Waitley
From the book: The New Dynamics Of Goal Setting