The cleanup has found many things that have just been laying around (some for years) waiting to have something done with or to them. One of the items was a clip full of calendar pages with quotations from Booker T. Washington and his "Sunday Evening Tuskegee Talks".
I won't bore you with a history of Booker, just a quick summary. Freed from slavery, he went on to become the founder of Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama. Surprisingly, he literally built this college fast with a totally different approach.
The top quote in the stack sort of stands out. "We very often hear it said that the one who has succeeded has been fortunate. It is not so. The fortunate persons, in nine cases out of ten, are those who have had sense enough to lay their plans and bend all their energies toward accomplishing what they have laid out."
Kind of makes me pull back and take stock. What are my plans, and to what are my energies devoted?
Check him out – just search the web for Booker T. Washington.