Joseph Bismark - Gems of Wisdom Blog

Values Check List

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

I have made a random list of values.

I suggest you take a moment to check those values that are personally most important to you and then ask yourself why you chose those values and if you really do live these values in your every day life.

Your Values Check List:

• Authenticity
• Balance
• Genuineness
• Commitment
• Compassion
• Concern for others
• Courage
• Creativity
• Empathy
• Excellence
• Fairness
• Faith
• Family
• Freedom
• Friendship
• Generosity
• Happiness
• Harmony
• Health
• Honesty
• Humour
• Integrity
• Kindness
• Knowledge
• Loyalty
• Openness
• Perseverance
• Respect for others
• Security
• Serenity
• Service to others

Sincerely,

Joseph Bismark

Group Managing Director, QI Ltd

Be Grateful

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

If the only prayer you say in your whole life is ’Thank You’, that will suffice.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Appreciation is like an insurance policy. It has to be renewed every now and then.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as a bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

To be upset over what you do not have is to waste what you do have.

Health is... a blessing money cannot buy.

Think of the ills from which you are exempt.

“Count your blessings, not your crosses, count your gains, not your losses, count your joys instead of your woes, count your friends instead of your foes, count your health and not your wealth.”
– Old Irish Poem 

Take a moment to ponder and reflect…

Always be grateful; contentment is the key to peace and happiness.

Your friend,

Joseph Bismark

Group Managing Director, QI Ltd

Make a Choice

“Two men look out through the same bars; one sees the mud and one the stars.

The greatest part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

Ultimately... it’s not the stories that determine our choices but the stories that we continue to choose.

I keep the telephone in my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance.

Then, whenever doubts, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal – and soon they’ll forget my number.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it solely depends on what you make of it.”
– Frederick Langbridge

Take a moment to ponder and reflect...

Choose to see the beauty in everything and everyone. Then happiness will be chasing after you.

Sincerely,

Joseph Bismark

Group Managing Director, QI Ltd

Think Wisely

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your beliefs about the nature of life, people and reality, to something more positive.

“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”
– Patrick Overton

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right both ways.

If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens.

Success or failure depends on your attitude.

Take a moment to ponder and reflect... everything begins in your thoughts, so be careful what you think... choose to think wisely.

Sincerely,

Joseph Bismark

Group Managing Director, QI Ltd

Do It Now!

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

To change one’s life, one should start immediately. Do it flamboyantly without exception.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is actually doing it.

There are two kinds of people; those who don’t do what they want to do, so they write down in a diary about what they haven’t done…

…then there are those who haven’t the time to write about it because they’re out doing it.

If you have something to do that is worthwhile doing, don’t talk about it... just do it.

Action is the antidote to despair.

Activity and sadness are incompatible. Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

So my dear friends, take action now before it’s too late. Remember that the saddest word in the English language is the word ‘IF’.

Please take a moment to ponder and reflect, thereafter take action. We are all on very short borrowed time in this world, so let’s not waste a single second.

Sincerely,

Joseph Bismark

Group Managing Director, QI Ltd