Tag: relationships

Prepare for the Possibility

July 21, 2023

Kennesaw, GA – Ability plus Opportunity is Everything (A + O = E)

Napoleon Bonaparte wrote that “ability without opportunity is nothing”. I like to modify this quotation to be a little more positive and say that our abilities and taking advantage of opportunity forms our destiny. 

Malcom Gladwell writes in his book, “Outliers”, that successful people work hard at developing their abilities and practicing their talents, then seize opportunities when they present themselves.

Realize that we have all been given some type of privilege on this earth. When developing our potential, we should give back to others which completes the circle of our life here on this rock we call home.

#Encouragement 

#Gratitude 

Bryan

PS. Special shout out to my good friend Edwin Luis Mendoza in Cajamarca, Peru. Luis encourages me to work hard and to be grateful for everything good in my life. Thank you Luis!

Somos lo que hacemos cada día

July 17, 2023

¿Estás feliz con tu vida? ¿Te gusta?

Si no es así, necesitas cambiar lo que haces a diario.

Somos lo que hacemos cada día. Por lo tanto, somos todas las cosas, actividades, hábitos y pensamientos que hacemos repetidamente.

“La excelencia es un arte que se gana con el entrenamiento y el hábito. No actuamos correctamente porque tengamos virtud o excelencia, sino que las tenemos porque hemos actuado correctamente. Somos lo que hacemos repetidamente. La excelencia, entonces, no es un acto, sino un hábito”. -Aristóteles

Fomenta la excelencia,

Edwin Luis Mendoza

Jeff Moore

July 7, 2023

Dunwoody, GA – Jeff Moore

Awesome to catch up with an old friend and colleague, Jeff Moore.

The IT Community is small and your reputation follows you and opens doors if you do good work and share good will.

#Encouragement 

Bryan

Facebook

June 30, 2023

Marietta, GA – Facebook 

“Facebook is everyone else’s highlight reel” – Dr. Randy Ross

“Relationomics” is a recent book by Randy Ross. I attended a lunch where Dr. Ross spoke on the importance of key relationships and the value of having good character that transcends the first person relationships that we all have. Facebook as a social media platform has become the highlight reel that others know us by.  

Manage your profile and posts carefully. 

#Relationomics

Bryan

Privilege

June 16, 2023

Dunwoody,  GA – The Burden of Privilege 

Much given = Much required 

We each have the burden of privilege to give back at least a portion of what we have received.  Embrace your best self and make the world a better place by your choices and contributions. 

#Encouragement 

Bryan

PS. Shout out to Scott M. who encourages me every time we speak. One of the best managers I have ever had the privilege to work for.

“Be Contagious”

May 19, 2023

Marietta, GA – Be contagious today

1. Share a smile with a stranger

2. Encourage a colleague 

3. Apologize for a mistake 

Friend, take the initiative today and draw people to the good inside of you. You always have a choice to do good will.

Thanks everyone for the kind birthday wishes! Today’s post was inspired by the poison oak I picked up at my property last week. If you were to become “contagious ” would you want to expose others to the good within you?  

Bryan.

Wisdom given to a younger you

May 11, 2023

Kennesaw, GA – If you could go back and talk to yourself when you were a teenager, what would you say to yourself? Would you change some things in your life?  

We learn from our experiences, and grow from the relationships that are shared with others. Love yourself and share your love with others. Be a good example.

Send me a note. It would be great to hear from you.

#Encouragement

Bryan Wilson 

bryanewilson@gmail.com

A man is the author of his own life

May 5, 2023

Kennesaw, GA – A man is the author of his own life. -Anon

One of the blessings of being an American citizen is the concept of self determination guaranteed in our Constitution. Our founders felt that the freedom to pursue personal liberty is a right given from God and confirmed in our American citizenship.  

For those of us blessed to be born in America, don’t let this right be squandered. Be the author of your life. Pursue your happiness and share it with others. Be a net contributor to the grand American experiment and not just a consumer of the blessings we have been given. 

#Encouragement

To your happiness!

Bryan

Special shoutout to #PatGartland, a Vietnam vet who loves America and has dedicated his life to promoting good will to all.

Every day, be better

March 28, 2023

Every day, be better. Just be better! 

“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

—William Faulkner

Remember: You can be better.

#JustBeBetter #EncourageExcellence

Bryan

More than dreamers

March 27, 2023

More than dreamers!

This is an amazing quote. I love it!

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.” ― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph.

Everybody dreams. All have dreams and more dreams. But not everyone takes action. The reality is that most people do not do anything. They are just dreaming and dreaming.

We have to be more than dreamers. The action is the key. 

Just do it!

Make it happen!

Make it possible!

Let’s go to be “The dreamers of the day”.

Let’s go to be the ones who dream with our eyes wide open and then go and pursue it and make it happen.

Let’s go to be more than dreamers.

#MoreThanDreamers #TheDreamersOfTheDay #MakeItPossible #EncourageExcellence

Bryan