“There is perhaps no surer mark of folly than an attempt to correct the natural infirmities of those we love.” – Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
“Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call others to order, I must now admit that I need calling to order myself, and that I would do better to set my own house to rights first.” – Carl Jung
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself” – Cal Thomas
Thank you for everything Mr. Janesky. We’ve met at CN Live but I want you to know the influence you’ve made on my life and most likely many others. I can’t thank you enough. Please write more audiobooks!
I was told this years ago by an employee that I worked really hard to change. He said, “just because I don’t do it exactly like you do doesn’t make my way wrong, as long as we come to the same conclusion that is all that matters, right?” I had to take a step back and really listen to what that meant. But, he was right and was a great employee for me. I could always count on him to do the right thing and he’d work day and night for me. I gave him freedom and he loved it!
Working every day to become better than I was the day before with the ultimate aim of growing into the person I was created to be.
These are great quotes! I forwarded them to my sons with these comments: “This is good advice. One of the things I have realized the older I get is that deficiencies in those closest to us are often a reflection of some sort of deficiency in ourselves. Either we don’t know how to communicate with the other person, or we don’t understand their view point, or we are holding them to a higher standard than ourselves, or we gave them poor instructions and got poor results, or many other things. So, when you see a deficiency in someone else you should first look at yourself and see if there was anything in the past that you could/should have done differently that could have changed the outcome. Only after you have eliminated the things that you could have done differently then should you ask them to do something differently.”
Myself