To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face, to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my WORK with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the ultimate purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind and courteous through all the hours; ;to approach the night with waeriness that ever produces sleep and the joy that comes from work well done – that is how I desire to waste wisely my days.

*from Og Mandino’s The Greatest Mystery in the World*