TIS Bulletin 2020/2021 Academic Year

TIS BULLETIN: 28th May, 2021

Thought for the Week

Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.
~ Olympia Dukakis

TIS BULLETIN: 21st May, 2021

Thought for the Week

The Paradox of Focus: Make the most of one opportunity and more opportunities will come your way. Moving boldly in one direction causes more paths to unfold before
you. To get more, focus on less.
~ James Clear

TIS BULLETIN: 14th May, 2021

Thought for the Week

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
~ George Bernard Shaw

TIS BULLETIN: 07th May, 2021

Thought for the Week

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~ Mark Twain

TIS BULLETIN: 30th April, 2021

Thought for the Week

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
~ Voltaire

TIS BULLETIN: 23rd April, 2021

Thought for the Week

Being busy isn’t the same thing as adding value.
~ Shane Parrish

TIS BULLETIN: 16th April, 2021

Thought for the Week

The person who wins the Nobel Prize in biology is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes on them. It’s the person who knew what to look for. Cultivating that capacity to seek what’s significant, always willing to question whether you’re on the right track, that’s what education is going to be about, whether it’s using computers and internet, or pencil and paper and books.”

~ Noam Chomsky

TIS BULLETIN: 9th April, 2021

Thought for the Week

New goals don’t deliver new results. New lifestyles do. And a lifestyle is a process, not an outcome. For this reason, your energy should go into building better habits, not chasing better results.
~ James Clear

TIS BULLETIN: 1st April, 2021

Thought for the Week

Books are more likely to change minds than conversations. There is too much happening internally during conversation: Did that sound stupid? What do they think of me? Will I lose the friendship over this opinion? Books can let you chew on an idea without social risk.
~ James Clear

TIS BULLETIN: 18h March, 2022

Thought for the Week

Sometimes you forget that just beyond the clouds the sun is shining.
~ Desmond Tutu

TIS BULLETIN: 11th March, 2022

Thought for the Week

Don’t ask kids what they want to be when they grow up. Ask them what problem they want to solve.
~ Jamie Casa

TIS BULLETIN: 4th March, 2022

Thought for the Week

The most important step in becoming successful in anything is to first become interested in it.
~ Sir William Osler

TIS BULLETIN: 25th February, 2022

Each person must live their life as a model for others.
~ Rosa Parks

TIS BULLETIN: 18th February, 2022

An expert is someone who, over many years, manages to remain confident enough to keep trying and humble enough to keep learning.
~ James Clear

TIS BULLETIN: 11th February, 2022

You never put things in front of you that let you think you’ve arrived. Always have that level of deprivation, so you know there’s more to come.
~ Marcus O’Sullivan

TIS BULLETIN: 4th February, 2022

Slowing down enables you to act in a high quality way. Kind rather than curt. Polished rather than sloppy. It’s hard to be thoughtful when you’re in a rush.
~ James Clear

TIS BULLETIN: 28th January, 2022

Don’t bother to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
~ William Faulkner

TIS BULLETIN: 21st January, 2022

Three simple ways to get more of what you want in life. Be kind and pleasant to others. Ask for what you want. Follow up.
~James Clear

TIS BULLETIN: 14th January, 2022

Having just the vision is no solution. Everything depends on execution.
– Stephen Sondheim

TIS BULLETIN: 6th January, 2022

It’s better to be alone than to spend time with toxic people It’s better to do nothing than to work on something that doesn’t matter. It’s better to rest than to climb the wrong mountain.
~ James Clear

TIS BULLETIN: 2nd December, 2021

When in doubt, just say thank you. There is no downside. Are you honestly worried about showing too much gratitude to the people in your life?
~ James Clear

TIS BULLETIN: 26th November, 2021

Think of many things. Do one.
~ Portuguese Proverb

TIS BULLETIN: 19th November, 2021

Failure is just practice for success.
~ Anon

TIS BULLETIN: 12th November, 2021

Don’t be perfect, just keep getting better.
~ Frank Peretti

TIS BULLETIN: 5th November, 2021

Before you can look at someone else, you gotta look at yourself in the mirror; because that’s how things get started. You’ve got to be willing to change and you’ve gotta have a sense of pride about yourself.
~ Michael Jordan

TIS BULLETIN: 29th October, 2021

It’s better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonise at length and be right too late.
~ Marilyn Moats Kennedy

TIS BULLETIN: 22nd October, 2021

There is one secret to success and that is passion. If you are passionate about what you believe in and what you want to achieve, then you are halfway there before you start. Your passion will become the foundation and driver for the elements of success that will be determined eventually by you.
~ Dr Ken Darvall

TIS BULLETIN: 15th October, 2021

Success is always personal. Each goal we set should be a personal challenge. The challenge must be realistic and incremental. We should always be looking at improving our personal best.
~ Dr Ken Darvall

TIS BULLETIN: 8th October, 2021

We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts
us to the test.
~Isabel Allende

TIS BULLETIN: 1st October, 2021

Learning should not be compliant. It should not be boring. It should be meaningful, fun, relevant and create a lasting impact.
~ A J Juliani

TIS BULLETIN: 24th September 2021

One life on this earth is all we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.
~ Frederick Buechner

TIS BULLETIN: 17th September 2021

Mindset. The trick is in what one emphasises. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
~ Carlos Castaneda

TIS BULLETIN: 10th September 2021

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
~ Albert Einstein

TIS BULLETIN: 3rd September 2021

Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson l be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson. Learning lessons does not end. There’s no part of life that doesn’t contain its lessons. If you’re alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.

~ Cherie Carter-Scott

TIS BULLETIN: 27th August, 2021

Always make sure you’re doing little experiments every day to move yourself forward on the things you’re interested in.

~ James Altucher

TIS BULLETIN: 20th August, 2021

Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn’t cut it.
~James Earl Jones

TIS BULLETIN: 13th August, 2021

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
~ Seneca

TIS BULLETIN: 6th August, 2021

The bad days are more important than the good days. If you write or exercise or meditate or cook when you don’t feel like it, then you maintain the habit. And if you maintain the habit, then all you need is time.
~ James Clear

TIS BULLETIN: 1st August, 2021

Two simple rules that make saying yes harder and saying no easier:
1. Don’t say yes on the spot.
2. When you do say yes to something, schedule when you’re going to do it in your calendar right away. Book twice as much time as you think it will take to do it right. Both rules are helpful, but the
second rule is perhaps more important. Scheduling the work helps you realize that saying yes has a very real cost. By scheduling double the time, you’ll avoid overcommitting and have the flexibility to take advantage of opportunities that arise.
~ Shane Parrish