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“Trou­ble in mar­riage often starts when a man gets so busy earn­ing his salt that he for­gets his sugar.”

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“The Biggest Room in the World is the Room for Improvement”

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Read­ing a great book my John Maxwell called “Make Today Count” and on page 37 he high­lights a Russ­ian proverb that goes as follows:

Before going to war — pray once

Before going to sea — pray twice

Before get­ting mar­ried — pray three times

In other words before going out on any poten­tially risky endeavor give it the con­sid­er­a­tion and atten­tion it deserves. 

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The say­ings of the sages is our look at some of the most inspi­ra­tional quotes penned down by the wise, the spir­i­tual and the suc­cess­ful. This week we look at the clas­sic apho­rism,
 

“Know Thy­self”

This ancient Greek apho­rism was inscribed in the fore­court of the Tem­ple of Apollo at Del­phi. Which was the loca­tion of the infa­mous ora­cle of Del­phi whose words were lit­er­ally treated as gospel by the pow­er­ful lead­ers of her time includ­ing king Ama­sis of Egypt, Solon of Athens and king Croes­sus from Lydia. 

The apho­rism is attrib­uted to 6 Greek Sages namely: 

• Chilon of Sparta
• Her­a­cli­tus
• Pythago­ras
• Socrates
• Solon of Athens
• Thales of Miletus

My thoughts: I have been quite inter­ested in this par­tic­u­lar sub­ject of know­ing ones abil­i­ties, tal­ents and moti­va­tions again over the last cou­ple of weeks. I always have been but espe­cially recently in terms of relat­ing ones nat­ural ten­den­cies to find work and area of con­tri­bu­tion in life that fuels and ener­gises you into the future.
 

One of the key sources of job sat­is­fac­tion is the abil­ity to relate ones work to a sense of con­tri­bu­tion to your fel­low man. By know­ing your­self using some of the excel­lent tools like DISC pro­files, Myers and Briggs per­son­al­ity test etc you empower your­self to start liv­ing a life focused on your strengths whilst being aware of areas in your life that may be lim­it­ing you.

So again today “Know Thy­self”, know your moti­va­tions and your nat­ural abil­ity to relate to peo­ple and see how you can use this to con­tribute your God given tal­ent to the world as a whole.

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