Tom Peters on a Soapbox

Noted author, business consultant, motivational speaker, management guru, trend watcher and probably a few other descriptors printable and otherwise, Tom Peters sends out a monthly or so email newsletter with observations and web links. Here is an excerpt of a recent one:

Engage!

Commit! Engage! Try! Fail! Get up! Try again! Fail again! Try again! But never, ever stop moving on! Progress for humanity is engendered by those who join and savor the fray by giving one hundred percent of themselves to their dreams! Not by those timid souls who remain glued to the sidelines, stifled by tradition, and fearful of losing face or giving offense to the incumbent authorities.

Commit!
Engage!
Try!
Fail!
Persist!

Key word: Engage

You Must Care

Make the time each day to offer an expression of appreciation to just one of your fellow human beings. It is the accumulation of such "small" kindnesses and acts of recognition and awareness and respect that add up to a life worth having been lived. In short ... you must care. You must wear your passion and compassion and engagement on your sleeve, and attend intensively to the moment. It will not come 'round again!

Key word: Care

Amen! Yes, sir!! Preach it, Tom!!!