Todays Tribal Wisdom! Month Three! Tribal Wisdom! Reasoning Thought! Week One! When I'm angry at myself, I criticize others! Ed Howe How critical are you of others? When you discover a new principle, be deliberate in making it an instinctive, ingrained part of your life! How are you doing at making a new principle a habit? Act the way you want to be, and soon, you will be the way you act! Dr. George W. Crane How deliberate are you at acting the way you want to be? The higher your self-esteem - the lower your abuse. Likewise, the higher your abuse, the lower your self-esteem! How is your self-esteem reflected in how you interact with your self, others, animals, and things? Good habits are always more reliable than memory! How is your development of your good habits coming? Every time we repeat an action, good or bad, we reinforce and strengthen it. What good actions are you repeating to reinforce and strengthen them? Those who bring sunshine to others cannot keep it from themselves. Sir. James Barrie How is your sunshine habit working? Week Two! We are recognized for what we are, not what we pretend to be! Are you who you are? Tack is the knack of making a point without making an enemy! Isaac Newton How's you tack doing? Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier! Charles Ketting How's your frontier? Keep versatility in all creative work! Walter Russel How's your creative work coming? You can give without loving but you cannot love without giving! Robert Louis Stevenson How's your giving? Leadership is inspiring others to be like you! How's your inspiring? There's a four-word formula to keep moral up. Make yourself more useful! Unknown How's your moral? Week Three! I am called to obedience. Are you being obedient? Obedience is doing what I know I should be doing and doing it until it is accomplished. Have you finished what you should be doing, or are you still working on it? Knowledge is acquired by life's experiences, good and bad. Are you learning from life? Wisdom is knowledge lived. How's your wise living? Knowledge not lived is disobedience. Are you living what you know you shouldn't be living? Knowing what knowledge is good and not good is discernment. How's your knowing good and not good doing? Knowing what knowledge is suitable for living is prudence. Do you know what is good to live? Week Four! Life's experiences are good, but life's experiences with understanding the experience are superior. Do you understand your life experiences? If not, are you finding help understanding your life's experience for what it is? Understanding your life's experience is knowledge learned. How's your wisdom working with the information you have? Living my learned knowledge for myself is selfishness. Are you hoarding life? Sharing and encouraging my life's lessons is gratitude. How's your gratitude doing? Coyote is the cowardly trickster who lies, steals and cheats for its best. Are you like Coyote, the trickster, not to be trusted? Spider says he and Coyotes are best friends and encourages Coyote and others to deceit, trickery and secrecy. Are you like Spider, the encourager of what's not good? Like Coyote and Spider, just because they say they are best friends, they may not be who they state they are. What kind of friend are you? Go to Comments! Return to Tribal Wisdom! Return to Home Page!