Turning Old Clichés into New Maxims: Conclusion
Come and read Richard Eyre's last column on new maxims. He writes: "As I look back over these last twenty-six new columns and the twenty-six new maxims we have created, it occurs to me that they all relate in some way to prioritizing and balance and they also seem to embody the following four principles..."
By Richard Eyre

Turning Old Clichés into New Maxims: He Who Dies With the Most Toys Wins
In the ownership mode everyone has more or less of something than we do, so there is envy, jealousy, or covetousness on the one hand or pride and condescension on the other.
By Richard Eyre

Turning Old Clichés into New Maxims: Love Means You Never Have To Say You’re Sorry
A weekly “clearing of the air” is more practical than a couple of other old clichés — “Never let the sun set on a disagreement,” or “Never go to bed angry” — both of which can keep people up all night.
By Richard Eyre

Turning Old Clichés into New Maxims: Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid
It's not only the positive things that we need to say; it's also the concerns, the frustrations, the hunts, and the feelings that need to get out, get aired, get communicated, get understood.
By Richard Eyre

Turning Old Clichés into New Maxims: Familiarity Breeds Contempt
As with so many old clichés, the problem is that accepting it causes negative behavior. If we believe that familiarity breeds contempt, it can cause us to “keep our distance,” to hold ourselves back from really knowing others or fully revealing ourselves.
By Richard Eyre

Turning Old Clichés into New Maxims: I Want To Have It All
Most healthy people in the spring, the summer, or even the fall of their lives have a lot of time. Learning to spend that time on what matters rather than trading it for things, for wants, for some illusive notion of having it all, is the lesson and perhaps the objective of life.
By Richard Eyre

Turning Old Clichés into New Maxims: Ability Is the Key to Successful Parenting
The more parenting books you pick up and look through, the more inadequate you feel. How can an ordinary person, without a Ph.D. or years of psychiatric experience, possibly succeed at something so complex as parenting?
By Richard Eyre

Turning Old Clichés into New Maxims: Children are Like Lumps of Clay, and Parents are the Sculptors
Josh was impressed with the huge Wembley Arena and the noise of the crowd. And when the game started, he was very attentive and quiet almost absorbed, I thought. But sometime midway through the first half I noticed he was not actually watching the game.
By Richard Eyre

Turning Old Clichés into New Maxims: Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child
Many children have strong wills, but they all have fragile egos. Critical, insulting words; impatient, harsh tones; and any kind of corporal punishment can dent and damage these egos and can dampen and dim trust and communication.
By Richard Eyre

Turning Old Clichés into New Maxims: The Home Supports the Career
What are the priorities here? Is work primary and family secondary? Is career the goal and center of life and family merely the support and supplement? Are we married to our careers and just loosely employed in our home?
By Richard Eyre

Turning Old Clichés into New Maxims: Live By Your List
Lists become our masters rather than our tools. The "have-to-dos" take over our lives and keep us from any "choose-to-dos."
By Richard Eyre

Turning Old Clichés into New Maxims:  Live To Work
Work is an important part of life. And that is the very point. Life is not a part of work.
By Richard Eyre

Turning Old Clichés into New Maxims: All You Can Do Is All You Can Do
People who learn to pray, to meditate, to center themselves and exercise faith discover how limited they are by themselves and how unlimited they are with God.
By Richard Eyre

Turning Old Clichés into New Maxims: Live For Today. If it Feels Good, Do It.
Too often we are attracted to things that sound new rather than old, individualistic rather than conforming, and experimental and exciting rather than traditional and time-tested.
By Richard Eyre

Turning Old Clichés into New Maxims: You are What you Eat (or Wear, Or Drive, or Live in, or Do)
All of the goals had to do with things and with accomplishing. They were goals about achievements, not about relationships. They were about doing and getting, and not about being.
By Richard Eyre

Turning Old Clichés into New Maxims: Get Your Recycled Clichés Here!
The funny thing about some of our most familiar clichés is that they are so outdated and meaningless that new generations mix them up and unintentionally produce hilarious hybrids.
By Richard Eyre

Turning Old Clichés into New Maxims: There's a Time and a Place for Everything
We don't live in a vacuum and time is not ours. We move through it and while we have some control over what we do with it, it also has considerable control over us.
By Richard Eyre

Turning Old Clichés into New Maxims: Keep Your Nose to the Grindstone
We drive ourselves to work hard, and in the process we drive ourselves crazy and we drive past the joys and beauties too fast to really see them.
By Richard Eyre

Turning Old Clichés into New Maxims: You Made Your Bed, Now Lie in It
Comfort imprisons more people than prison bars do. A well-conceived change has the power to expand both the quality and quantity of our lives.
By Richard Eyre

Turning Old Cliches into New Maxims: A Change is as Good as a Rest
A rested body renews itself and is more likely to stay free from illness, and a rested mind is more receptive to intuition, to little "nudges" or impressions or possibilities and to a clearer sense of priorities.
By Richard Eyre

Turning Old Cliches into New Maxims: Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan
Goals without plans or with fairly general plans have an interesting kind of power. We seem to move toward them almost subconsciously, as though they were magnets.
By Richard Eyre

Turning Old Cliches into New Maxims: Hurry Up!
When our motto is “hurry up,” there is always too much of things, of jobs, of obligations – and too little time.
By Richard Eyre

Turning Old Cliches into New Maxims: “Act, Don’t React”
Friends call at unexpected times. Sunsets surprise us. Ideas come along at random times. Circumstance change.
By Richard Eyre

Turning Old Cliches into New Maxims: Get Serious
We tell our children to "get serious" at the very time they are enjoying themselves most. And we trick ourselves into thinking that seriousness is synonymous with success.
By Richard Eyre

Turning Old Cliches into New Maxims: Work Before Play
Part Five
The interesting irony of today is that many of us are extremely good at work, and disciplined and dedicated to it – and very bad at play.
By Richard Eyre

Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There: Turning Old Clichés to New Maxims
Part Four
Thoughtful "sitting there" is rapidly becoming a lost art, stomped out by trying to do something every minute.
By Richard Eyre

Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There: Turning Old Clichés to New Maxims
Part Three
In an increasingly complex world, some things are less 'black and white' in terms of being worth doing well or not worth doing at all.
By Richard Eyre

Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There: Turning Old Clichés to New Maxims
Part Two
Procrastination can become a terrible habit; but, used selectively, it can actually be a great technique for helping us prioritize what really matters.
By Richard Eyre

Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There: Turning Old Clichés to New Maxims
Clichés often prompt unrealistic expectations, turn us into dissatisfied perfectionists, or give us inaccurate perceptions of the world around us.
By Richard Eyre