Winging it.................

 

Constructive..........................

 

Having a calm mind that is focused on the outcome is our greatest asset when we are in conflict at workplace.

-Tanmay Vora, from this post

I haven't made New Year's Resolutions............

 ............for years.  But, if I did:

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I believe this is likely to be true...................

More courage and resolution.......

... but Old Age has no certain Limits;  it may end sooner or later.  All we have to do, is live well while it lasts, and do our best to discharge the respective Duties of our Station, with a just Contempt of Death, that, come when it will, we may without Surprize be prepared for it.  And this will give Old Age more Courage and Resolution, than even Youth itself in its highest Vigour can pretend to. 

-Marcus Tullius Cicero, as extracted from The Cato Major, Or His Discourse Of Old-Age:  With Explanatory Notes

Let it be......................................

The only sane thing to do with the world is to let it struggle with its own problems.  You can do this only when seeing clearly that the world prefers to struggle painfully with its problems, never really wanting solutions.
-Vernon Howard

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More than you want to know...................

........................................about Gordian knots - here or here

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Need a list......................................

..................to help jump-start your 2015 New Year's resolutions?

This re-run may be just the ticket.

A stack of projects........................

A problem might seem ominous or threatening, but if we call it "a project" instead, our approach to it changes;  we view it as something that has a solution - a solution we are engaged in finding.  In the same way, we can remind ourselves that our opportunities are often in exact proportion to our problems.   Polio was a problem worldwide, but to Dr. Jonas Salk and his fellow researchers it was a project on which they were working and which they were successful in solving ... When we have a pressing problem - and who is without one for long - I think we need to take this intelligent attitude toward it.  This is not a Pollyanna attitude, unless you want to call all the people who have been solving human problems for centuries Pollyannas.  It is, rather, a very human, intelligent attitude.
-Earl Nightingale

A worthy resolution....................

No matter what I think concerning difficult subjects, I will strive to be the lesser of two egos.
-Mme Scherzo

Holmes on problem solving..............

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practise it much. In the everyday affairs of life it is more useful to reason forward, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit — destructive to the logical faculty.

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.

Education never ends Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last.

It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

"Data! Data! Data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

There can be no question, my dear Watson, of the value of exercise before breakfast.

I'm off.  The game is afoot.

Ed. note:  Picture source here.  Choosing which Holmes to use was the challenge.  The three most recent ones are truly great, but, for me, Jeremy Brett is still the best match to Conan Doyle's work.  Feel free to disagree.

Be it further resolved........