At The Closing of the Year

Well 2010 has come and gone. It has been a challenging one, but one also filled with many blessings. So as we wind down the last week of this year, I leave you with a special lyric from one of my favorite songs for the Christmas season. The main verse from "At the Closing of the Year" written and performed by Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman. This was the main theme song for the movie "Toys" starring Robin Williams.


"If I cannot bring you comfort
then at least I bring you hope
for nothing is more precious
than the time we have and so
we all must learn from small misfortune
count the blessings that are real
let the bells ring out for christmas
at the closing of the year "


I even found the video...

CJ

Aspiring to Excellence

A friend of mine was going through a "drive for excellence" type movement where she works and had some wonderful words to share on the subject::
(*Re-printed with permission*)

{"So I was pondering on why do we not strive for excellence at all times? And not just at work, but in all areas of our lives?

The idea of "the ultimate excellence" may be too extreme; however, I do believe that we all possess the energy needed to achieve "our own level of excellence." Our highest potential if you will. There is something that distiguishes the ordinary from the extraordinary."}

Then she included this great quote:

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle

CJ