101 Monday Motivation Quotes

                     101 Monday Motivation Quotes

Motivating Monday Quotes to Get Your Morning Started Right


“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…”

– Marcus Aurelius

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
– Jim Rohn

“Mondays are the start of the work week which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!“
– David Dweck

“You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
– George Lorimer

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.”
– Wayne Dyer

“Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier & healthier life.”
– Germany Kent

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
– Zig Ziglar

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.“
– Groucho Marx

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”
– Ashley Smith

“When you start to do the things that you truly love, it wouldn’t matter whether it is Monday or Friday; you would be so excited to wake up each morning to work on your passions.“
– Edmond Mbiaka

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“A ship is always safe at shore but that is not what it’s built for.”
– Albert Einstein

“Stress is caused by being ‘here' but wanting to be ‘there.'
– Eckhart Tolle

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
– Dale Carnegie

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
– Zig Ziglar

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”
– Jim Rohn

“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”
– Albert Einstein

“Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”
– Lemony Snicket

“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
– Dalai Lama

“Think of many things; do one.”
– Portuguese proverb

Quotes for a Focused and Successful Monday at Work

“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.”
– Viggo Mortensen

“Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
– John R. Wooden

“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.”
– Zig Ziglar

“The starting point of all achievement is desire.”
– Napoleon Hill

“I was thinking one day and I realized that if I just had somebody behind me all the way to motivate me I could make a big difference. Nobody came along like that so I just became that person for myself.”
–  Unknown

“If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”
– David Allen

”Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.”
– Brian Tracy

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“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”
– Charles F. Kettering

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
– Brian Littrell

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”
– Henry Ford

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
– Bruce Lee

“The only thing worse than starting something and failing … is not starting something.”
– Seth Godin

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson

“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. “
– Lily Tomlin

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
– Bruce Lee

“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.”
– Abraham Lincoln

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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
– Mark Twain

“We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.”
– John Newton

“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
– Olin Miller

“Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.”
– Brian Tracy

“Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
– Peter Drucker

“Don't mistake activity with achievement.”
– John Wooden

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”
– Bertrand Russell

“Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.”
– Joan Collins

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“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
– Michael Jordan

“If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.”
– Dean Smith

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
– Stephen King

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
– Mark Twain

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
– Tony Robbins

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”
– Florence Nightingale

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“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.”
– Roger Staubach

“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”
– Stephen R. Covey

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
– Maya Angelou      

Positive Monday Quotes for a Happy Life

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
– Pablo Picasso

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.”
– Ray Goforth

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
– Jack Canfield

“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”
– Dennis P. Kimbro

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C.S. Lewis

“If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it – teach yourself to be impatient.”
– Gurbaksh Chahal

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“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”
– M. Scott Peck

“For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his/her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time.
If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.”
– Andy Rooney

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
– Lucille Ball

“We become what we think about.”
– Earl Nightingale

“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
– Diane Ackerman

“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”
– Lao Tzu

“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
– Marcus Aurelius

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“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
– Harry F. Banks

“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”
– Mary Lou Retton

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill

“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius

“Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.”
– Unknown

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
–  Og Mandino

“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”
– Peter Marshall

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
– Conrad Hilton

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“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
– Neale Donald Walsh

“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.”
– David M. Burns

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
– Milton Berle

“You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.”
– Deepak Chopra

“Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“The past has no power over the present moment.”
– Eckhart Tolle

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“The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.”
– Unknown

“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”
– Les Brown

“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”
– Orison Swett Marden

“Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.”
– Mae Jemison

“When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say, ‘Wow, that was an adventure,' not, ‘Wow, I sure felt safe.'”
– Tom Preston-Werner

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.”
– Francis Chan

“Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.”
– Robert H. Schuller

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“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
– Paulo Coelho

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
– Mark Twain

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
– Karen Lamb

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children… to leave the world a better place… to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
– Leo Buscaglia

MOJA MAMA MOJ ZIVOT

VESNA ZASLUŽENO OTIŠLA U PENZIJU!

Nema gorih ljudi od onih koji se protive prosvećenju i obrazovanju naroda. Takvi, da mogu, i sunce bi ugasili, reči su Dositeja Obradovića, kojima počinjemo ovu priču. Ovo je priča o ženi koja je antipod ljudima iz Dositejevih misli, koja je ceo svoj radni vek provela učeći, vaspitavajući, odgajajući decu. Ona je učiteljica Vesna Krstić i nakon 40 godina otišla je u zasluženu penziju.

Ovo je priča o učiteljici Vesni Krstić,ali njome želimo ujedno da odamo priznanje svim prosvetnim radnicima koji požrtvovano, sa puno ljubavi i strpljenja odgajaju i vaspitavaju našu decu.

Učiteljica Vesna je rodom iz Jagodine.Došla je u naš Srbobran po konkursu za otvoreno radno mesto,u vreme kada su se molbe slale poštom koja je putovala nekoliko dana,a zatim je u plavoj koverti stizao odgovor. Mladi, školovani ljudi zapošljavali su se širom naše tadašnje zemlje i svoje živote i porodice zasnivali u mestima koje su do tada znali samo sa geografskih karti.

(Vesna Krstić, Julkica Popović i Vesna Todorović)

- OŠ "Vuk Karadžić" uvek je bila prepoznatljiva po kvalitetnom radu sa decom. U našoj školi uvek je bilo izuzetnih, posvećenih i marljivih ljudi koji su svoj posvetarski posao doživljavali, pre svega kao poziv, kao plemenitu dužnost. U plejadi takvih naša Vesna sigurno ima svoje mesto. Biće upamćena, kao i mnogi pre nje, jer iza sebe ostavlja dubok, neizbrisiv trag kako u srcima dece koju je naučila prva slova, tako i nas kolega koji smo svakodnevno sa njom delili profesionalni život , kazala je između ostalog za naš portal, Julkica Popović, direktorka OŠ Vuk Karadžić.

Vesna je ceo život učiteljica,majka, a sada i baka.Posvećena deci do kraja,svom svojom dušom.Uvek nasmejana i spremna za šalu.

- Kolegama govori da "dolazi u školu da se odmori i napuni se pozitivnom energijom sa svojim djacima".Učila je i vaspitavala generacije srbobranske dece. Dočekivala je kao učiteljica decu svojih nekadašnjih đaka i tako bivala prisutna i poštovana u srbobranskim porodicama kroz više generacija.U radu sa decom uvek nasmejana, spontana, fleksibilna, osetljiva na dečije potrebe i osećanja, puna razumevanja i prihvatanja. Nastavni plan i program je redovno ispunjavala, ali joj je na prvom mestu uvek bilo da njena odeljenja budu tim i da ih okuplja zajedništvo. Svaka njena generacija imala je neku svoju prepoznatljivu pesmicu koju je ona spevala i koju su pevušili kroz školske hodnike iz godine u godinu. Vesna na odmore vodi svoju družinu tako sto uvek drži jedno njeno dete za ruku i svaki put je to drugi mališan. Njoj su sva deca uvek bila jednaka i jednako važna, ispričala je o Vesni školski psiholog Violeta Pivnički.

Učiteljica Vesna Krstić iz OŠ "Vuk Karadžić" je prva učiteljica koja je vodila zvanično inkluzivno odeljenje u redovnoj nastavi.Te godine kada je inkluzija ušla u prosvetni sistem Srbije, Vesna je preuzela jedno,po svemu,vrlo specifično odeljenje.Mali broj djaka,medju njima i dečak poseban po svojim karakteristikama.Dozvoliću sebi, mislim sa punim pravom da budem ličan, jer između ostalog i moje dete je bilo četiri godine Vesnin đak.

Vesna mi je kasnije, kao roditelju tog dečaka sa Daunovim sindromom priznala da noć pred početak školske godine nije mogla da spava.S jedne strane,uzbuđenje zbog novih prvaka,a s druge nepoznanica, briga i strepnja pred nepoznatim.Medjutim i tada,u petoj deceniji,bila je spremna da uči i usavršava se.Kako su meseci,pa i školske godine odmicale,Vesna je izgradila tim od tog odeljenja koji je su sve vreme bili najbolje odeljenje u školi.Svakako i po školskom uspehu,po prosečnoj oceni,ali u prvom redu po prijateljstvu i empatiji.Vesna ih je naučila da prihvatanjem različitosti obogaćujemo svoje živote.Ne samo jedno posebno dete, nego i sva ostala deca oplemenjena su u tom odeljenju za ceo život.Naučili su da budu ljudi,da vole i razumevaju,da budu strpljivi i saosećajni,da postižu visoke ciljeve i da se medjusobno pomažu.

O Vesni je za naš portal nekoliko rečenica kazala i njena imenjakinja, najpre učenica, a potom i koleginica, Vesna Todorović:

- Kažu da oni koji se bave ovom profesijom sporije stare, jer su okruženi mladošću i energijom. Učiteljica Vesna je svoj radni vek provela okružena decom.  Osmeh i neiscrpnu energiju je prenosila na đake i oni na nju. Vedra i nasmejana ispunjavala je radni prostor. Opismenila je mnoge generacije učenika ali ih je pre svega naučila da postanu dobri ljudi. Utkala je deo sebe u život svake svoje generacije, baš kao što kaže Miroslav Antić:

“I svaki put kad budeš
komadić sebe dao
ličiće svet na tebe
više nego na druge.”

U ime sve dece i roditelja koje ste učili,u svoje i u Perino ime - učiteljici Vesni hvala!Uživajte u zasluženoj penziji,odmarajte,čitajte knjige za šta znamo da vam je omiljeni hobi i jedva čekamo da Vas ponovo vidimo i čujemo na koncertima Gradskog hora "Zora".

Aleksandar Šijačić

Morala sam ovaj clanak podeliti i na moj blog jer to je MOJA MAMA MOJ PONOS MOJ ZIVOT!

EFEKAT DIDERO:KAKO SAM KUPOVAO ,,GORIVO''

The Diderot Effect: How Buying Fuels Itself

 

 In mid-1700’s France, there lived an artist and writer on the brink of poverty.

 

 His name was Denis Diderot.

 

 He had been born into an established family, the son of a successful craftsman, and he had obliged the social standing of his birth by pursuing a formal education. He obtained a Master of Arts in philosophy, bound for a respectable profession in clergy or law.

 

 But Diderot dreamed of becoming a writer.

 

 When Diderot was 21 years old, he dropped out of school. His furious father disowned him, and Diderot lived a scrappy bohemian lifestyle for the next thirty years.

 

 Yet he enjoyed this simple life. His robes were plain but comfortable. He furnished his sparse home with a tiny writing desk and a tattered straw chair. He spent his evenings at his battered desk, scrolling by candlelight.

 

 He wrote novels and scientific papers and critiques of the French government, and article by article, book by book, his ideas began to spread. He wrote Encyclopédie, one of the most comprehensive encyclopedias of the era, and over the decades, despite his lack of disposable income, he amassed an impressive collection of books.

 

 His ideas impressed the Russian Empress Catherine the Great. When she learned that Diderot needed financial help, she volunteered to serve as his benefactor.

 

 In 1763, Catherine the Great purchased his personal library, paying an enormous sum for his collection. She requested that Diderot keep those books at his home, offering him a generous annual salary to act as the collection’s caretaker.

 

 Then she ordered her staff to pay his salary for the next 50 years upfront.

 

 Diderot, age 52, became a wealthy man.

 

 That’s when his life turned sour.

 

 Surely, Diderot reasoned, he ought to be permitted one small indulgence. What harm could there be in spending a sliver of his windfall?

 

 And so Diderot bought himself a fine scarlet robe. He loved this robe, and referred to it as “my sumptuous scarlet.”

 

 But his joy was to be short-lived.

 

 One night as Diderot sat at his desk, he noticed the jarring disparity between his tasteful scarlet robe and his tattered straw chair.

 

 He wrote that he saw “no more coordination, no more unity, no more beauty” between his scarlet robe and his usual surroundings. How could he sit in an ugly chair while wearing a beautiful robe? What if the straw tore the robe?

 

 Diderot replaced it with an armchair upholstered in Moroccan leather.

 

 Problem solved. Right?

 

 Except his elegant chair looked out-of-place next to his tiny writing desk. He replaced it with a gleaming new wooden table.

 

 His pile of paperwork couldn’t sit atop this beautiful wooden table. He bought a finely-crafted bureau with drawers.

 

 He bought a new kitchen table, new artwork, a mirror to hang above his mantle. He bought a gold clock, an assortment of sketches, an antique bronze statue of Venus.

 

 Piece by piece, Diderot replaced every item in his home, until he lived in splendor that reflected his scarlet robe.

 

 But he had spent his windfall.

 

 And so it was that Diderot came to rue the day when he purchased his fine scarlet robe.

 

 “All that remains of my original mediocrity is a rug of selvage,” he wrote in an essay. “I can feel that this pitiful rug doesn’t go well with my newfound luxury. But I swore and I swear, like the peasant transferred from his hut to a palace … that Denis the philosopher will never walk upon a masterpiece …”

 

 “When in the morning, covered in my sumptuous scarlet, I enter my office,” he wrote, “I lower my gaze and I see my old rug of selvage. It reminds me of my beginnings and pride is stopped at the entryway to my heart.”

 

 Today, the Diderot Effect is a term that describes the tendency for purchases to trigger additional purchases.

 

 

• We buy a couch, and then we need accent pillows and throw blankets.
  
• We buy an outfit, and then we need shoes and accessories.
  

• We get a gym membership, and then we need better workout clothes, earbuds, more towels, a combination lock, and a bag to carry everything.
  

 

 But it doesn’t have to be this way.

 

 We live better lives than Denis Diderot and his peers.

 

 We sit in castles made comfortable by thermostats we control from our phones. We keep milk and meat in electric ice-boxes known as refrigerators. We access safe, clean drinking water from a tap that we turn on with a simple flick of the finger. We watch entertainment from private devices we control with tiny remotes. We live lives of luxury.

 

 Yet we hunger for more.

 

 We decide our refrigerator isn’t nice enough; not when the latest models are wifi-enabled with touch screens. We gripe that the pixels on our private entertainment-streaming devices aren’t sharp enough. We nitpick at the aesthetic of the tap from which our clean drinking water flows. “This faucets’ curve isn’t quite right, and I prefer stainless steel over chrome.” We walk on ceramic tile floors and grumble that it’s not hardwood.

 

 We spend our windfall.

 

 And then, in the midst of the madness, we take a step back.

 

 We look around and realize that our castles have grown too large; our furniture and clothing, too fancy. We realize nobody goes to their deathbed regretting that they never had hardwood floors.

 

 We realize that we are on-track to repeating the mistake of Diderot, surrounded by splendor with empty pockets. All flash, no cash.

 

 But our situation is forgiving.

 

 We can return the robe.

 

 We can downsize into modest homes. We can find joy in home-cooked meals rather than extravagant restaurants. We can shop less and give away more.

 

 We can simplify.

 

 And piece by piece, choice by choice, the Diderot Effect loosens its grip.

 

 Diderot can return the robe.

 

     EFEKAT DIDERO:KAKO SAM KUPOVAO ,,GORIVO''

 

 Sredinom 1700-tih u Francuskoj je živеo umetnik i pisac na ivici siromaštva.

 

 Zvao se Denis Diderot.

 

 

Rođen je u dobrostojećoj porodici, sin uspešnog zanatlije, i obavezao se na društveni položaj njegovog rođenja provođenjem formalnog obrazovanja. Magistrirao je filozofiju, vezan za uglednu profesiju u sveštenstvu ili pravu.

 

 Ali Diderot je sanjao da postane pisac.

 

 Kada je Didero imao 21 godinu, napustio je školu. Njegov besni otac ga se odrekao, a Didero je u narednih trideset godina živeo u neurednom boemskom stilu.

 

 Ipak je uživao u ovom jednostavnom životu. Haljine su mu bile jasne, ali udobne. Opremio je oskudnu kuću sitnim pisaćim stolom i otrcanom stolicom od slame. Veče je proveo u svom ošamućenom stolu, pomerajući se uz svetlost sveća.

 

 Pisao je romane i naučne radove i kritike francuske vlade, a članak po članak, knjigu po knjigu, njegove ideje su se počele širiti. On je napisao Enciklopedie, jednu od najsveobuhvatnijih enciklopedija tog doba, i tokom decenija, uprkos nedostatku raspoloživog dohotka, sakupio je impresivnu zbirku knjiga.

 

 Njegove ideje su impresionirale rusku caricu Katarinu Veliku. Kada je saznala da Diderou treba finansijska pomoć, dobrovoljno se javila kao njegov dobrotvor.

 

 Godine 1763. Katarina Velika je kupila njegovu ličnu biblioteku i platila ogromnu sumu za svoju kolekciju. Zatražila je da Didero zadrži te knjige u svom domu, nudeći mu velikodušnu godišnju platu da deluje kao čuvar zbirke.

 

 Zatim je naredila svom osoblju da isplati njegovu platu za narednih 50 godina unapred.

 

 Дидерот, sa 52 године, постао је богат човек.

 

 Tada mu se život pretvorio u kiselo.

 

 Sigurno, smatrao je Didero, trebalo mu je dozvoliti jedno malo zadovoljstvo. Koja bi šteta mogla biti u trošenju komadića njegove štednje?

 

 I tako je Didero sebi kupio finu grimiznu odoru. Voleo je ovu haljinu i nazvao je to "moj raskošan grimiz".

 

 Ali njegova radost je bila kratkotrajna.

 

 Jedne noći, dok je Didero sedeo za svojim stolom, primetio je nesklad između nesvakidašnje grimizne haljine i njegove slamnate stolice.

 

 On je napisao da je video "nema više koordinacije, nema više jedinstva, nema više lepote" između njegove grimizne haljine i njegove uobičajene okoline. Kako je mogao da sedi u ružnoj stolici dok je nosio divnu haljinu? Šta ako je slama pokidala ogrtač?

 

 Didero ju je zamenio foteljom presvučenom marokanskom kožom.

 

Problem rešen. Jel tako?

 

 Osim što je njegova elegantna stolica izgledala van mesta pored njegovog malog radnog stola. Zamenio ga je novim svetlim drvenim stolom.

 

 Njegova gomila papira nije mogla da sedi na ovom predivnom drvenom stolu. Kupio je fino izrađen biro sa fiokama.

 

 Kupio je novi kuhinjski sto, nova umetnička dela, ogledalo koje je visilo iznad njegovog plašta. Kupio je zlatni sat, asortiman skica, antičku bronzanu statuu Venere.

 

 Komad po komad, Didero je zamenio svaku stavku u svojoj kući, sve dok nije živeo u sjaju koji je odražavao njegovu grimiznu odoru.

 

 Ali on je potrošio svoju sreću.

 

 I tako je Dideru došlo da pokvari dan kada je kupio svoju finu grimiznu odoru.

 

 "Sve što je ostalo od moje prvobitne osrednjosti je tepih sela", napisao je u eseju. “Osećam da ovaj jadni tepih ne ide dobro sa mojim novootkrivenim luksuzom. Ali zakleo sam se i kunem se, kao što je seljak prešao iz kolibe u palatu ... da filozof Denis nikada neće hodati po remek-delu ... ”

 

 "Kad ujutro, pokriven mojim raskošnim grimiznim, uđem u svoju kancelariju", piše on, "spuštam pogled i vidim svoj stari ćilim sela. Podseća me na moje početke i ponos mi je zaustavljen na ulazu u moje srce. "

 Danas, Diderot efekat je termin koji opisuje tendenciju kupovine da pokrene dodatne kupovine.

•  Kupujemo kauč, a onda nam trebaju jastuci sa naglaskom i pokrivači

•  Kupujemo odeću, a onda nam trebaju cipele i pribor.

•  Dobili smo članstvo u teretani, a onda nam je potrebna bolja odeća za vežbanje, slušalice, više peškira, brava za kombinaciju i torba za nošenje svega.

   

   Ali to ne mora biti ovako.

My Best Advice — Ever MOJ NAJBOLJI SAVET- IKAD

FRANK SONNENBERG

1. Own your life! If you look in the mirror and don’t like what you see, don’t blame the mirror.
2. Make the investment. There’s only one investment that will never go down — an investment in yourself.
3. Make good choices. You have the freedom to choose, but you’re not free from the consequences of those choices.
4. Be careful what you wish for. Success doesn’t always guarantee happiness.
5. Keep good company. You determine the people you spend your time with. Choose wisely.
6. Know the true meaning of success. It’s not what you have, but who you are that counts.
7. Be realistic. It takes many years to become an overnight success.
8. Focus on the important stuff. Checking items off a list doesn’t determine progress; focusing on your priorities is what counts.
9. Make the commitment. You don’t get what you want; you get what you deserve.
10. Leave your comfort zone. If you don’t try, you forfeit the opportunity.
11. Stop procrastinating. Those who begin things, but never complete them, accomplish nothing.
12. Set your mind to it. Your mindset matters more than you think. Ability determines if you can; attitude determines if you will.
13. Invest your resources wisely. Saying “no” to one idea enables you to say “yes” to another.
14. Remain positive. “I can’t” and “I don’t want to” produce the same results.
15. Take baby steps. Incremental progress leads to long-lasting results. Focus on inches and you’ll win by a mile.
16. Set high standards. If you’re not proud, you’re not done.
17. Build win-win relationships. Winning doesn’t have to be at someone’s expense.
18. Keep your promises. Every time you give your word, you’re putting your honor on the line.
19. Don’t blame. Learn. ​Excuses can be habit forming.
20. Learn from experience. Lessons in life will be repeated until they are learned.
21. Show some grit. Determination is habit forming; so is quitting.
22. Start doing more by doing less. Subtracting from your list of priorities is as important as adding to it.
23. Learn to delegate. Although the costs of not delegating may be invisible, the price that you pay is real.
24. Stop whining. Self-pity is like a disease…the condition worsens with neglect.
25. You’re only limited by your beliefs. If you believe you can’t, you won’t.
26. Plan for a rainy day. Don’t wait for a fire to locate the exit.
27. Raise the bar. When you tolerate mediocrity, you get more of it.
28. Make your priorities a priority. Don’t try to please others so much that you lose sight of your own needs.
29. Think before you act. Don’t do anything that you may regret one day.
30. Love, trust, honor, respect. It’s so easy to lose sight of the things that you can’t see.
31. Be grateful. Don’t take things for granted. As the saying goes, “Appreciate what you have before it becomes what you had.”
32. Forgive yourself. Mistakes don’t make you a failure, but beating yourself up makes you feel like one.
33. Be your own person. Think for yourself rather than following the herd off a cliff.
34. Check your ego at the door. Those who serve arrogance as their main course will eat humble pie for dessert.
35. Reject complacency. It’s easier to maintain momentum than to rebuild it once it is lost.
36. Be practical. You can’t control the uncontrollable, but you can control the way you respond to those situations.
37. Learn the meaning of enough. Set your sights on what you have rather than what you don’t 
38. Live within your means.When you run out of money, stop buying.
39. Be generous. You don’t have to be rich to give; your gift can be as simple as a smile.
40. Let it go. Forgiving doesn’t mean forgetting, nor does it mean approving of, what someone did. It just means that you’re letting go of the anger toward that person.
41. Make every moment matter. Moments, rather than possessions, are the true treasures of life. Material possessions get old and wear out. Memories last forever.
42. Raise good kids. Behind every good kid are parents who understand the importance of raising them that way.
43. Live with honor. Knowing what’s right isn’t as important as doing what’s right.
44. Lead by example. You’re a role model. Act like one.
45. Remain true to your values. If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.
46. Remain grounded. Never lose sight of the garden you grew in.
47. Live for a cause greater than yourself. You may not have the control to lengthen your life, but you can do much to deepen it.
48. Do good and be good. Karma is like a boomerang. I hope you have many happy returns.
49. Make a difference. You may not be able to change the world, but you can change the world around you.
50. Listen to your conscience. You have to live with yourself for the rest of your life. 

  1.Поседујем свој живот! Ако погледате у огледало и не допада вам се оно што видите, не кривите огледало.
  2.Направи инвестицију. Постоји само једна инвестиција која никада неће ићи доле - улагање у себе.
  3. Направи добре одлуке. Имате слободу избора, али ти ниси слободан од последица тих избора.
  4. Пази шта желиш. Успех не гарантује увек срећу.
  5.Држите добро друштво. Ви одредите људе које проводе време са вама. Изабрати мудро.
  6.Знај право значење успеха. То није оно што имате, али ко си ти да  рачуна.
  7.Буди реалан. Потребно је много година да постане успех преко ноћи.
  8. Фокусирај se на важне ствари. Провера ставки са листе не тврди напредак; фокусираj se на своје приоритете је оно што се рачуна.
  9.Направи обавезу. Да не добијете оно што желите; да добијете оно што заслужујете.   
 10.Оставите своју зону удобности. Ако не покушате, губите прилику.
 11.Стоп одуговлачењу. Они који почињу ствари, али их никада не довршавају, ништа не постижу.
 12. Поставите свој ум на то. Ваш начин размишљања је важнији него што мислите. Способност одређује да ли можете; став одређује ако хоћете.
 13. Инвестирајте своје ресурсе мудро. Рећи "не" једној идеји омогућује вам да кажете "да" другој.
 14. Останите позитивни. "Не могу" и "Не желим" дају исте резултате.
 15. Узми беби кoрaкe. Постепени напредак води до дуготрајних резултата. Усредсредите се на инче и победите за миљу.
 16. Поставите високе стандарде. Ако нисте поносни, нисте готови.
 17. Изградите вин-вин односе. Добитак не мора бити на рачун некога.
 18. Држите своја обећања. Сваки пут када дате своју реч, стављате своју част на линију.
 19. Не криви.Учи. Изговори могу бити навика.
 20. Учите из искуства. Лекције из живота ће се понављати све док се не науче.
 21. Покажи мало песка. Одређивање је обликовање навике; тако је и одустајање.
 22. Почните да радите више радећи мање. Одузимање из ваше листе приоритета је једнако важно као и његово додавање.
 23. Научите делегирати. Иако трошкови не делегирања могу бити невидљиви, цена коју плаћате је стварна.
 24.Престани да кукаш. Самосажаљење је као болест ... стање се погоршава због занемаривања.
 25. Ограничени сте само вашим веровањима. Ако верујете да не можете, нећете.
 26. Планирајте кишни дан. Немојте чекати пожар како би пронашли излаз.
 27. Подигните шипку. Када толеришете осредњост, добићете више од тога.
 28. Поставите приоритете као приоритете. Не покушавајте толико задовољити друге да изгубите из вида своје потребе.
 29. Размислите пре него што поступите. Не радите ништа што ћете једног дана пожалити.
 30. Љубав, поверење, част, поштовање. Тако је лако изгубити из вида ствари које не можете видети.
 31.Бити захвалан. Не узимајте ствари здраво за готово. Као што изрека каже: "Цени оно што имаш пре него што постане оно што си имао."
 32. Опрости себи. Грешке вас не чине неуспехом, али ако се претучете, осећате се као да сте то.
 33.Буди своја особа. Размислите за себе, уместо да следите стадо с литице.
 34. Проверите свој его на вратима. Они који служе ароганцију као главно јело ће појести скромну питу за десерт.
 35. Одбаци самозадовољство. Лакше је задржати замах него га обновити када се изгуби.
 36. Будите практични. Не можете контролисати неконтролисано, али можете да контролишете начин на који реагујете на те ситуације.
 37. Научите значење довољно. Припазите на оно што имате, а не на оно што немате.
 38. Живите унутар својих средстава. Када вам понестане новца, престаните са куповином.
 39.Будите великодушни. Не морате бити богати да бисте дали; Ваш дар може бити једноставан као осмех.
 40. Пусти, нека иде. Опраштање не значи заборавити, нити значи одобравати оно што је неко учинио. То само значи да отпуштате гнев према тој особи.
 41. Учините сваки тренутак важним. Тренуци, а не ствари, су права блага живота. Материјална имовина постаје стара и истрошена. Успомене трају заувек.
 42. Подигни добру децу. Иза сваког доброг клинца су родитељи који схватају важност њиховог подизања.
 43. Живи са части. Знајући шта је право, није толико важно колико да радимо оно што је исправно.
 44. Вођен као пример. Ви сте узор. Понашај се као такав.
 45. Останите верни својим вредностима. Ако се не заложите за нешто, падаћете на било шта.
 46.Останите уземљени. Никада не губите из вида врт у којем сте расли.
 47. Живи за узрок који је већи од себе. Можда немате контролу да продужите свој живот, али можете много тога да продубите.
 48. Радите добро и будите добри. Карма је као бумеранг. Надам се да имате много срећних повратака.
 49. Направи разлику. Можда нећете моћи да промените свет, али можете да промените свет око себе.
 50. Слушај своју савест. Мораш да живиш са собом до краја живота.