Tag: work your fingers to the bone
God helps those who help themselves
Saying: God helps those who help themselves We are living through challenging times. Sometimes you may feel like giving up but remember God helps those who help themselves. This pertains to all gods, no matter which faith you follow. There are people in this world who work extremely hard and enjoy the fruits of their…
Seek and you shall find
Proverb: Seek, and you shall find Seek, and you shall find success in life. Many people have said various things about achieving success in life. Very few of them have said attaining success is easy. Patience is a virtue and is often a necessary quality when it comes to success in life. There is no…
Education deflation
WotD: Education deflation Post-secondary education is expensive. If you have been lucky enough to have parents who could afford to pay the tuition, you are fortunate. The rest of us have had to work our fingers to the bone either to pay upfront or make later payments. Anyways, have you heard about education deflation? While…
Land of milk and honey
Phrase: Land of milk and honey Religion has played a considerable part in creating the English language. Although for Christians, the eighth commandment is ‘Thou shalt not steal,’ the English language ‘borrows’ and never gives back. Is that stealing? Only if it is intentional, I suppose. Anyways, the phrase the land of milk and honey…
On the warpath
WotD: On the Warpath Japanese are peaceful people. They enjoy calm things such as viewing cherry blossoms or observing pandas. Things must change. They, you, me – WE – have to get on the warpath. When someone is on the warpath, you know they are very angry and getting ready to fight. We must declare…
Flop
Word of the Day: Flop Last Sunday, I wrote about the key to success. Having a flop is also having a small victory. On Sunday, I said the key to success is using one success as a stepping stone to the next. When something is a flop, it’s an absolute total failure. That may sound like a disaster – and…
Work your fingers to the bone
Idiom: Work your fingers to the bone You work your fingers to the bone and then retire. Does that sound like the story of your life so far? There’s no shame in hard work. Most societies value hard work and honour it as an example for others to follow. Canada, the United States, Australia, Japan and China…
Pipe dream
WotD: Pipe dream Have you ever had a pipe dream? I mean the kind of hope where you had a private island all to yourself. A dream in which there was no need to work anymore, so you traded in crowded train rides for a dugout canoe, the cold, hard sidewalk for a soft private…
Rags to riches
Idiom: Rags to riches Going from rags to riches means to advance out of poverty into extreme wealth. You know, it used to be the stereotypical American dream to immigrate to the US, work hard and become a big-time business person. One of the best rags-to-riches movies that I have ever seen is Slumdog Millionaire.…
Best of both worlds
English Phrase: The best of both worlds It’s not every day that you can have the best of both worlds, but when it happens, man, it’s fantastic. To have the best of both worlds, you must enjoy the advantages of two completely different situations without any of the drawbacks. In other words, you have all…
