The 5-5-5 Plan

Week 47 – 5-5-5 Plan – Theme – Wisdom

 (No Thursday or Friday-thanksgiving)

 

Monday: This is a short week – the week of Thanksgiving and as I was contemplating themes – what I had scheduled and then what I wanted to share for our three days – it came to my mind to share quotes around wisdom – this is something I continually seek and something I’m grateful for – that our life brings wisdom when we seek that and not just experiences.

 

            Quote: Calvin Coolidge once said this: “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.”

 

            Word: reiterate – A verb meaning to repeat what you’ve stated earlier. It comes from the Latin for “re-traveling.” So when it’s good – or wise – it is worth saying it again – and again – to reiterate – the truth.

 

You Create Your Day by the way You Think! Be Present!

Go make it a Magnificent Day!

 

Tuesday:

            Quote: Today’s quote comes from Charles Caleb Colton who said, “There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.”

I liked this one because as I seek wisdom I am continually reminded that I am not so wise, or that I have a continual path to follow on it – my dad used to say to me, “The more I know the more I realize how much I don’t know.” It’s like that for me with wisdom.

 

            Word: Ponderous – This adjective means “having great weight.” When a thought is “ponderous,” however, it can be so heavy and unwieldy that it’s actually “dull,” another connotation of the word. I use it here because to gain wisdom it helps to ponder or give thinking some weight –

 

You Create Your Day by the way You Think! Be Present!

Go make it a Magnificent Day!

 

Wednesday:

            Quote: Our last quote for this short Thanksgiving week comes from Whittaker Chambers who said, “True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.”

I selected this quote because we’re going to be getting together with family and friends and sometimes there has been some suffering – or sadness – just from the loss of family or friends or past hurts –

My wish for you is that you are wise in your dealings with all others and that you have great love and happiness this Thanksgiving season.

 

No word today – I would like each of you to share one or more things you’re grateful for this Thanksgiving.

 

Also, next Monday it’s the beginning of a new week and new month – what will your focus be for the last month of 2008?

 

You Create Your Day by the way You Think! Be Present!

Go make it a Magnificent Day & have a magnificent Thanksgiving!