Writer. Speaker. Nice Guy.
“Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.” – Henri Frederic Amiel Today’s quote goes out to anyone living with uncertainty. Whether it’s related to health, work, art… or if that cute girl in the next row at work will actually say Yes to going on a date with you. Remember that, no matter the uncertainty you’re […]
“Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Teresa Earlier today, in a burst of anger, I sent an abrupt, hurtful text message to someone very dear to me. It is one of only a handful of times I’ve been so rude, and a moment in which my better judgement went straight out the window and […]
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin I spent about 8 or 9 hours yesterday fighting with fixing a computer. My sister-in-law works for me, and between the two of us, we have had NO END of computer problems for the past month. Website hacks, hard disk failures, inexplicable and unrecoverable crashes, you name […]
“Life’s too short to do stuff you don’t enjoy.” – Israel Smith It’s entirely possible that I’ve used this quote before. I haven’t, however, used this image. Because I shot it, around lunchtime, looking up into the sky from my backyard, on my 36th birthday – the day I sit here writing this. I missed […]
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – Abraham Lincoln Road trip report, Day One: Five hours’ sleep. Up at 6:15am. Madly get final client jobs finished. Spend several (fruitless) hours trying to fix yet another computer that has crashed – this time at our […]
“You will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you’re making.” – C.S. Lewis Tonight, I’m tired. The Inaugural Smith Family Road Trip commences tomorrow, and we’re up late packing, tying loose ends, getting sh!t done. However, I still love you, and want you to […]
“Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.” – Mike Ditka I was video-chatting with a great new friend of mine from Fargo – Brandon LaPlante – earlier tonight about mental toughness, resilience and discipline. You could be forgiven for thinking we were discussing boot camp in the armed forces. Actually, we were talking […]
“Whatever good things we build end up building us.” – Jim Rohn I’ve been taking a visual trip back to Fargo with the last couple of IQ’s. It really was a life-changing experience. I learned so much, met so many fabulous people, and have altered the path of my life as a direct result of the […]
Today’s IQ is about five days in the making. As you (probably) know the IQ website got hacked. Badly. (To those nasty buggers from the dubious *ahem* female cosmetic surgery websites in South-East Asia: you suck.) I’ve deleted the IQ website from its old home on israelsmith[dot]net, in an attempt to not infect any more computers […]
