Balance Tradition and Progress

 

Those who can see value only in tradition,...
deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
- Stephen Bayley

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
- Theodore Bikel

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter

Honor tradition, but
Do not be constrained by tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We Need Both the Vision and the Practicality,
Both the Lightness and the Solidarity,
Both the Wings and the Roots.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Embrace Change

Beyond Your Comfort Zone

Break with Conformity

Life is an Adventure
    

Honor Change, as well as Tradition

Those who can see value only in tradition,...
deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
- Stephen Bayley

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
- Theodore Bikel

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter

Honor tradition, but
Do not be constrained by tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We Need Both the Vision and the Practicality,
Both the Lightness and the Solidarity,
Both the Wings and the Roots.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Embrace Change

Beyond Your Comfort Zone

Break with Conformity

Life is an Adventure
    

We Need Both the Wings of Freedom & Adventure and the Roots of Family & Community

 

Those who can see value only in tradition,...
deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
- Stephen Bayley

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
- Theodore Bikel

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter

Honor tradition, but
Do not be constrained by tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We Need Both the Vision and the Practicality,
Both the Lightness and the Solidarity,
Both the Wings and the Roots.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Embrace Change

Beyond Your Comfort Zone

Break with Conformity

Life is an Adventure

We Need Both Wings and Roots

Those who can see value only in tradition,...
deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
- Stephen Bayley

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
- Theodore Bikel

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter

Honor tradition, but
Do not be constrained by tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We Need Both the Vision and the Practicality,
Both the Lightness and the Solidarity,
Both the Wings and the Roots.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Embrace Change

Beyond Your Comfort Zone

Break with Conformity

Life is an Adventure

We Need Both the Lightness and the Solidarity, Both Wings and Roots

Those who can see value only in tradition,...
deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
- Stephen Bayley

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
- Theodore Bikel

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter

Honor tradition, but
Do not be constrained by tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We Need Both the Vision and the Practicality,
Both the Lightness and the Solidarity,
Both the Wings and the Roots.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Embrace Change

Beyond Your Comfort Zone

Break with Conformity

Life is an Adventure

Both Roots and Wings

Those who can see value only in tradition,...
deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
- Stephen Bayley

 There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
- Theodore Bikel

Honor tradition, but
Do not be constrained by tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
 
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer


Further reading: Embrace Change

Beyond Your Comfort Zone

Conformity

Life is an Adventure


    

Honor Tradition, but do Not be Constrained by it.

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter

Those who can see value only in tradition,...
deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
- Stephen Bayley

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
- Theodore Bikel

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer

Honor tradition, but
Do not be constrained by tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Embrace Change

Life is an Adventure

Conformity

Beyond Your Comfort Zone
    

Make Lemonade

When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations"
are opportunities to either advance,
or stay where you are.
- Maxwell Maltz

Zig as Life Zigs and Zag as Life Zags.
Stay Adaptable, Stay Joyful
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: There is a Way

Learning from Failure

Boldly Sail the Storms of Life

How to Stay Positive Around Negative People
    

Honor Both Tradition and Change

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
- Theodore Bikel

Those who can see value only in tradition,...
deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
- Stephen Bayley 

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer

Be resolute in your goals, but flexible in your tactics.
There are times that call for repetition and perseverance;
and there are times that require new ways of thinking and doing.
The challenge is knowing one from the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Embrace Change

Conformity

Life is an Adventure

Beyond Your Comfort Zone
    

There is a Way

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.
If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
- Norman Vincent Peale

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan

The less I take the difficulties of my life as personal affront,
and the more I use them as an opportunity to learn and grow...
the easier I sleep at night.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In their own way, problems can be blessings. They can be the prod to get us out of our complacency and into action.

Problems create an opportunity for us to exercise our ingenuity, to plan, to persevere, to interact with our social network, and to feel a sense of accomplishment when we finally overcome the unexpected roadblock.

Further reading: Problem-Solving Abilities

Ask Better Questions

Overcoming Obstacles

When Life Kicks You

Adapt to Circumstances

Be Flexible

Adaptability

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer

Life is not always as it seems.
What you have wished for is not always best.
What you have feared may become a blessing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Go With the Flow

Enjoy the Journey

Be Flexible

Do What You Can Do

Flexibility

The Simple Life

Do What You Can Do

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa

Your best is ALWAYS good enough. After you have truly done your best, release your attachment to the outcome.

Further reading: Play to win, but be a good loser

How to Forgive and Move On

How to Love Yourself

Be Flexible

In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
- Lao Tzu

Choose your battles wisely. While your core principles and your life goals are important, most of what you let upset you is not worth an argument or lost sleep. Take Lao Tzu's advice and become softer and more flexible.

Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The very nature of the world is constant change. You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it; then the assumptions on which you based your plan change - they always do. The challenge is to retain your goals while adapting your tactics. Relax and stay flexible in order to reach your goals and maintain your happiness.

The phrase "tilting at windmills" (from the fictional character Don Quixote - shown in today's picture) epitomizes the hopelessness of a determined but inflexible approach. Far better to change your tactics than to fail - however nobly.

Further reading: Success Tip: Drive Change

Respecting the ways of others

Stay adaptable, stay Joyful

Can Do

Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life may not be the party we hoped for
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Further reading: Practice Makes Perfect - Sometimes

Assumptions

The Jump is So Frightening - Mary Anne Radmacher

How to Choose Your Life Purpose

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. Stephen Hawking

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
- Stephen Hawking

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu

Be resolute in your goals, but flexible in your tactics.
- jlh

The very nature of the world is constant change. You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it; then the assumptions on which you based your plan change - they always do. The challenge is to retain your goals while adapting your tactics. Relax and stay flexible in order to reach your goals and maintain your happiness.

The phrase "tilting at windmills" (from the fictional character Don Quixote - shown in today's picture) epitomizes the hopelessness of a determined but inflexible approach. Far better to change your tactics than to fail - however nobly.

Further reading: Change always comes bearing gifts

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Success Tip: Drive Change

Intention versus Expectation (Demand)

I choose to adapt to the circumstances in which I find myself.

Flexible - Adaptable

I choose to adapt to the circumstances in which I find myself. I choose to be flexible in my dealings with those around me. I understand that my way is not the only way - that inner peace comes from respecting the ways of others, and that, if I am open, I may gain great insights and happiness from the ideas and traditions of others.

Further reading: Habits - Like Water to a Fish

Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life

Stay adaptable, stay Joyful

Honor tradition AND question tradition. - jlh