First Be Who You Really Are

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"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want."

-- Margaret Young


"Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders."

--Bob Moawad


"If you are lucky enough to have done well, then it is your responsibility to send the elevator back down."

--Kevin Spacey


"Personal responsibility begins with ME. That's why it is personal."

--John Miller

Alter Life By Altering Attitudes

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"The greatest discovery of my generation is that
human beings can alter their lives by altering
their attitudes of mind."

-- William James


Thought Of The Day

Our attitude is our personal boomerang to the world -
whatever we throw out will come back to us. Express
enthusiasm and it comes back. Offer a smile and
it is returned. Start to gossip and that's what
we will hear. You get the idea.


"You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless."

-- Caroline Myss

Making Time Count

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"Counting time is not nearly as important
as making time count."

-- Anonymous


Thought Of The Day :

Start each day with a meditation or prayer. Refresh
your mind and refocus your heart on what you are
passionate about. Concentrate on one new thing
you can do today to deepen your passion.


"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness More Inward Disposition

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"Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances."

-- Benjamin Franklin


"We must love one another or die."

--W.H. Auden


"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also
full of the overcoming of it."

--Helen Keller


"You can be greater than anything that can happen to you."

--Norman Vincent Peale

Steadily Raise Level of Asipiration

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"A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration."

-- Kurt Lewin


"Who would live and not love?"

-- Rachel Russell


"No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are,
raise your sights and see the possibilities – always
see them, for they're always there."

— Norman Vincent Peale


"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first."

--Shakespeare

Look Within and Discover

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"Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside ourselves and we begin to look within. There we discover that the gold we sought, we already are."

-- Alan Cohen


"I go by instinct...I don't worry about experience."

-- Barbra Streisand


"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."

-- Robert Byrne


"Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness."

-- Jean Vanier

Pick Up The Mug and Throw Back

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"If criticism is mistaken or mean-spirited, rise above it.
Maintain the high ground when you're under fire.

No victory is worth winning at the expense of picking up the mud that has been slung at you and throwing it back."

-- Rubel Shelly


"Happiness is contagious....Be a carrier!"


"If you are not afraid to face the music,
someday you may lead the band."


"If a person has enough push, he or she
will manage to pull through."

-- A Wise Human

The Strength That Came About

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"Strength is the matter of the made-up mind."

-- John Beecher


"Loyalty is what we seek in friendships."

--Cicero


"There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity."

-- Gen. Douglas MacArthur


"Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow
from, but not well enough to lend to."

-- Ambrose Bierce

Find Our True Direction

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"Sometimes in the winds of change
we find our true direction."

-- Unknown


Thought Of The Day :

Embrace change in your life! The root word for “motivation”
is “move” and movement is change. Ask yourself right now…

Am I moving forward, or standing still?

Do I have the career that I love?

Am I pleased with the relationship I have with my spouse, my kids?

Do I have a healthy lifestyle?

Is my energy level where it needs to be?


"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become."

-- Jim Rohn

Feeling of Inferior

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"Remember, no one can make you feel inferior
without your consent."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt


"When you arise in the morning,think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love..."

-- Marcus Aurelius


Thought Of The Day :

We all have excess baggage that we desperately need
to let go of. We have all made mistakes in the past;
made poor judgment calls, harbored ill feelings
towards others, hurt someone or been hurt by someone.

The only person who gets hurt by holding on to this
baggage is yourself. It is like a snake bite. It is
not the bite that kills you; it is the venom that
infects your system.

Purge Yourself

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"Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out."

-- Tina Turner


"There are some people who can't say the words "I love you,"
but they can sure let you know that they love you."

-- Mister Rogers


"If you fall, get up and try again."

-- A Wise Person


"Find release from your concerns and have a good time."

-- From My Fortune Cookie

Asking For Happiness

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"Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition."

-- Arthur Rubinstein


"To be alive at all involves some risk."

-- Harold MacMillan


"Find a need and fill it."

-- Ruth Strafford Peale


"Bloom where you are planted."

-- A Wise Person

Take Time To Enjoy

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"We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are."

-- Calvin & Hobbes


"Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot
live without and know we cannot live within."

--James Baldwin


"I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station,
who did not do better work and put forth greater effort
under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism."

--Charles M. Schwab


"Don't expect a great day; create one."

--Author Unknown

Life The Game of Boomerangs

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"The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy."

-- Florence Shinn


"Laughter is the one form of communication
every culture can understand."

-- A Wise Person


"You are not your job, status or bank account;
you are who you think you are."

-- A Wise Person


"The last of the human freedoms is to choose
one's attitudes."

-- Victor Frankl

Success Needs Effort

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"Success is dependent on effort."

--Sophocles


"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."

-- Shirley MacLaine


"The doors of wisdom are never shut. The doors of wisdom are never shut."

-- Benjamin Franklin


WHAT'S LOVE?

Love is...What makes a weak man brave And a king step off his throne Good times, bad times Easy times, tough times It comes in an instant And lasts three days after forever That's what love is.

-- Mike

The Great Power

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"The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose."

-- J. Martin Kohe


"The only thing even in this world are the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours."

-- Woody Hayes


Thought Of The Day :

There is a story told by an old Indian:

“On my shoulders are two wolves. One wolf tempts me to do and say wrong things. On the other shoulder is a wolf that continually encourages me to live up to my very best.”

A listener asked the old man, “Which of these wolves has the greatest power over you?”

The old man replied, “The one I feed.”

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Definition of Success

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"Success is the progressive
realization of a worthy ideal."

-- Earl Nightingale


"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year."

-- John Foster Dulles


Thought Of The Day :

Based on Earl’s and John quote above, let’s define success. Success is…

- The school teacher who is teaching school because that’s what
he or she wants to do.

- The woman who is a wife and mother because she wanted to
become a wife and mother and is doing a good job of it.

- The entrepreneur who starts his own company because that
was his dream...that’s what he wanted to do.

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Do It Without Thought Of Failure

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"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"

-- Dr. Robert Schuller


"The greatest possession we have costs nothing, it's known as love.
A personal greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated."

-- Brian Jett


"Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus."

-- Oprah Winfrey


"It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world."

-- Al Franken

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The Universe Never Owes Us

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"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

-- Mark Twain


"Love is metaphysical gravity."

-- Buckminster Fuller


"Life does not cease to be funny when people
die any more than it ceases to be serious
when people laugh."

--George Bernard Shaw


"The thought manifests as the word.
The word manifests as the deed.
The deed develops into habit.
And the habit hardens into character.
So watch the thought and its ways with care.
And let it spring from love,
born out of concern for all beings."

-- Buddha

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You Have This Moment To Sparkle

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"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not on this earth for eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake."

-- Marie Beynon Ray


"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."

-- A Wise Person


"You have two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

-- Denis Waitley


"It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference."

-- Jenny Craig

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Life Is Something You Create

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"People talk about finding their lives. In reality, your life is not something you find - it's something you create."

-- David Phillips


"If you're angry with a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other."

-- Walter Anderson


"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."

-- Peter Ustinov


"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

-- Winston Churchill

Get Your Values Clear

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"When your values are clear to you,
making decisions becomes easier."

-- Rod Disney


"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."

-- George Eliot


Thought Of The Day :

Make a list of your personal core values. Start with
a personal brainstorming session.

Don't feel like you have to do it all in
one sitting. Set a timeframe of a week or a month and carry
the list with you wherever you go.

As various possibilities cross your mind, add them to the list.
Don't feel like you have to filter your ideas.

This is simply your personal research into your own mind, heart and soul.
Just let the ideas flow!

Take Care of Each Moments

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"If we take care of the moments, the
years will take care of themselves."

-- Maria Edgeworth


"Every man is the architect of his own fortune."

-- Sallust


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Precious moments with your children…where did they go?

Lost minutes stretch into hours, then days.

Lost yesterdays pass away and become weeks and months.

We look back and shake our heads in disbelief,
wondering where the years went. Sound familiar? If you are on
this path, fix it now..

Fast Forward 20 Years What Will Be Your Regret

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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the
things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the
bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade-winds
in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

-- Mark Twain


"Do not try to exert your will upon the
formless to compel it to give you more
vitality or power. It is already placing
all the power there is at your service."

-- Wallace D. Wattles


"A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm."

-- Bill Vaughn


"Dare to be yourself."

-- Andre Gide

Own Resolution To Succeed

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"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to
succeed is more important than any other."

-- Abraham Lincoln


"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."


-- Abraham Lincoln


"Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man."

--Mohandas Gandhi


“One important key to success is self confidence.
An important key to self confidence is preparation.”

-- Arthur

Ninety-Nine Percent Excuses

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"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people
who have the habit of making excuses."

-- George Washington Carver


"You can fool all the people some of th"e time,
and some of the people all the time, but you
cannot fool all the people all the time."

-- Abraham Lincoln


"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."

-- Mohandas Gandhi


"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."

-- James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)

Everyone Will Have Been All Of These

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"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and
tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life
you will have been all of these."

-- George Washington Carver


"Everybody likes a compliment."

-- Abraham Lincoln


"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station,
through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in."

-- George Washington Carver


"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."

-- Clarence Thomas (1948 - )

Determined Spirits Unquenchable Faith

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"A small body of determined spirits fired by an
unquenchable faith in their mission can alter
the course of history."

--Mohandas Gandhi


"If you look for the bad in people expecting
to find it, you surely will."

-- Abraham Lincoln


"Where there is no vision, there is no hope."

-- George Washington Carver


"You will believe that the power of health
in the universe is 10,000 times greater
than that of disease -- in fact, that
disease has no power whatever."

-- Wallace D. Wattles

Your Highest Aspirations

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"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

-- Louisa May Alcott


"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

-- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)


Thought Of The Day :

Establish your set of personal and professional goals and talk and think about them often...even daily.

Think about what you want and your plans to get it!

Visualize your self achieving those goals and think about how it makes you feel. I promise, you will feel more positve and energized!

Have a wonderful weekend and I'll be back on Monday!

The Wonderful Things About Appreciation

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"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: it makes what
is excellent in others belong to us as well."

-- Voltaire


"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

-- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)


Thought Of The Day :

Every year there is a special day approaching...Your Mother's or Father BirthDay!

Be sure to send your special thanks, appreciation
and love to your mom, wife, daughter, grandmother or
father, husband, son, grandfather, etc.!

Don't delay...that day will be here before you know it.

Give her or him the day off, make her or him a special dinner, send her or him a
handmade card from you and your kids etc.

You will really make her or his day!