The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Never complain and never explain.
After a storm comes a calm.
Know or listen to those who know.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
Even though I'm retired for some years now I still have something positive to say to kids. And they still listen.