It’s a society where teamwork, loyalty and communication are the norm rather than the exception. Sound like utopia? Actually, it’s already present in nature – in a wolf pack. The wolf pack knows who it is. Those in the pack exist for each other.

Twyman Towery, Ph.D., a professional speaker and consultant who studied the lessons of leadership in nature, has captured them in a book for Simple Truths called Wisdom of Wolves. Twyman shares the parallels between the wolf pack and human behavior…in business life, family life, and personal life.  (http://www.simpletruths.com)

An excerpt from Wisdom of Wolves by Twyman Towery

The attitude of the wolf can be summed up simply: it is a constant visualization of success. The collective wisdom of wolves has been progressively programmed into their genetic makeup throughout the centuries. Wolves have mastered the technique of focusing their energies toward the activities that will lead to the accomplishment of their goals.

Wolves do not aimlessly run around their intended victims, yipping and yapping. They have a strategic plan and execute it through constant communication. When the moment of truth arrives, each understands his role and understands exactly what the pack expects of him.

The wolf does not depend on luck. The cohesion, teamwork and training of the pack determines whether the pack lives or dies.

There is a silly maxim in some organizations that everyone, to be a valuable member, must aspire to be the leader. This is personified by the misguided CEO who says he only hires people who say they want to take his job. Evidently, this is supposed to ensure that the person has ambition, courage, spunk, honesty, drive – whatever. In reality, it is simply a contrived situation, with the interviewee jumping through the boss’s hoops. It sends warnings of competition and one-upmanship throughout the organization rather than signals of cooperation, teamwork and loyalty.

Everyone does not strive to be the leader in the wolf pack. Some are consummate hunters or caregivers or jokesters, but each seems to gravitate to the role he does best. This is not to say there are not challenges to authority, position and status – there are. But each wolf’s role begins emerging from playtime as a pup and refines itself through the rest of its years. The wolf’s attitude is always based upon the question, “What is best for the pack?” This is in marked contrast to us humans, who will often sabotage our organizations, families or businesses, if we do not get what we want.

Wolves are seldom truly threatened by other animals. By constantly engaging their senses and skills, they are practically unassailable. They are masters of planning for the moment of opportunity to present itself, and when it does, they are ready to act.

Because of training, preparation, planning, communication and a preference for action, the wolf’s expectation is always to be victorious. While in actuality this is true only 10 percent of the time or less, the wolf’s attitude is always that success will come-and it does.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. ~Ken Keyes, Jr.

Positive Inspirational Quotes ( PIQ)

‎”If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces,
never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”
~Flavia Weedn

(Thank you Cousin Terri for this post)

‎”Happiness is like a butterfly.
The more you chase it, the more it eludes you.
But if you turn your attention to other things,
It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.”

Henry David Thoreau

Positive Inspirational Quotes ( PIQ)

Wow!! I’m sitting next to Dread Lock dude. I have seen him on the train before trying to do the double dutch off the train and now he is talking a mile a minute. He started off talking about “circumcised”” to Korea to Marshall Arts. Then to Germany and then to church. Then he start talking about Michael Jordan and Kobe. Who’s the best and the advice he gave them. Then he was talking about the right foods to eat and how it will make you healthy. This time he didn’t have his hair in two pony tail so I can’t say his dreads were too tight. WOW, Just saying!!

Wishing  my Daddy Cecil (RIP), my husband Robert, my brother Daryus and my Step Dad Richard Driver “Happy Father’s Day!!” I thank God for them being in my life.  Also Happy Father Day to all of  my family and friends and Mothers who had to be a mother and a father.  That’s  not an easy job doing both jobs and I applaud you all!!

Note to self: Remind Donovan not to drink Pepsi after Pepsi.  He went to a graduation party and had all the Pepsi he could drink.  Pepsi and Coke is off limit for my kids but when Mom’s not around uh oh!!  I picked Donovan up from the party and WHOA Poppa!!  He was talking a moving a mile a minute.  I was ready to drop him off on the side of the road and let him walk it off.  LOL LOL LOL.  Just say NO to Pepsi.

Note to self:

Use the “have to go” phrase more when you are in conversations with toxic people.

The longer we stay in their presence, the more danger of being caught in their web.

Talknology Tips

Remember making an apron in school?

 Read below:

The History of ‘APRONS’

I don’t think our kids know what an apron is.

The principal use of Grandma’s apron was to protect the dress underneath because she only had a few. It was also because it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and aprons used less material. But along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.

It was wonderful for drying children’s tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.

From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.

When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.

And when the weather was cold Grandma wrapped it around her arms.

Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.

Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.

From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables.  After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.

In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.

When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.

When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men folk knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.

It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that ‘old-time apron’ that served so many purposes.

Send this to those who would know (and love) the story about Grandma’s aprons.

REMEMBER:

Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool. Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw.

They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron.

I don’t think I ever caught anything from an apron — but love…

‎Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

Life is a beauty, admire it.

Life is a dream, realize it.

Life is a challenge, meet it.

Life is a duty, complete it.

Life is a game, play it.

Life is a promise, fulfill it.

Life is sorrow, overcome it.

Life is a song, sing it.

Life is a struggle, accept it.

Life is a tragedy, confront it.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

Life is luck, make it.

Life is life, fight for it.

– Mother Teresa

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can be aroused by two things:

– An idea which takes the imagination by storm

– A definite, intelligible plan for carrying that idea into action.

— Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975)