Life Ten and Ninety Percent

"Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it."

-- Ben Franklin


"We determine whether something will be a blessing or a curse by the way we choose to see it."

-- Kate Nowak


"Doubt can only be removed by action."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill."

-- Christopher Parker

Happy & Colourful New Year 2011

Wish You And Your Family Happy & Colourful New Year 2011

Change The Changeable-Accept The Unachangeable
Remove Yourself From The Unacceptable

Everything Will Be Okay In The End. If It Not Okay
Then It Is Not The End

With Best Wishes

Learning About Life

"I’ve learned that life is like a carnival with all its sights and sounds; sometimes you need to skip the rides and just hang out with the clowns!"

--Linda Ellis


"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."

-- Danny Kaye


"The most important thing in life is to stop saying "I wish" and start saying "I will." Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities."

-- David Copperfield


"If you don't take charge of shaping your own destiny, others will apply their agenda to you."

-- Eric Allenbaugh

Where You Stands At Time of Challenge

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

-- Martin Luther King Jr.


"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are different."

-- Seneca


"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."

-- Alexander the Great


"Don't read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student."

-- Jim Rohn

Listen To Your Inner Voice

"I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us...if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do."

-- Christopher Reeve


"We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe."

-- Jane Goodall


"The fear is worse than the pain."

-- Shannon Bahr


"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Start With The First Step

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

-- Chinese Proverb


"Keep your face to the sunshine and you will not see the shadows."

-- Helen Keller


"Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you plan to stop peddling."

-- Claude Pepper


"Laugh loud, and laugh often. It’ll keep you happy, keep you healthy, and keep your attitude headed in a positive direction."

-- Mac Anderson

Courage Is Needed For Success

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are some difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes a brave soul to win them."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time."

-- Lou Brock


"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes."

-- Andrew Carnegie


"Real success comes in small portions day by day."

-- Denis Waitley

Life Greatest Mistake

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."

-- Elbert Hubbard


"Life is like riding a bike. It is impossible to maintain your balance while standing still."

-- Linda Brakeall


"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

-- Ben Franklin


"Without question, the art of listening is one of the most underestimated keys to success. I want you to stop and think about the friends you really enjoy being with, the bosses you've enjoyed working for, and I'd be willing to bet they all have one thing in common . . . they're good listeners."

-- Mac Anderson

Merry Christmas for Year 2010

"Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect."

-- Oren Arnold


"What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace."

-- Agnes M. Pahro


"Christmas is not just a day, an event to be observed and speedily forgotten. It is a spirit which should permeate every part of our lives."

-- William Parks (Missions)

Your Mind Is Your Only Limitations

"Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you."

-- Og Mandino


"You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution."

-- Bob Proctor


"The best time to give advice to your children is while they're still young enough to believe you know what you're talking about."

-- Evan Esar


"Insanity doesn't run in my family. It gallops."

-- Cary Grant

Try Something New To Learn and Grow

"How can you learn and grow when you never step out and try something new and exciting? There is never a lack of resources, only a lack of ideas. Without risk, there can be no progress. All of us only have so much sand left in the hourglass, and one day our sand will run out. The time to risk is now and the great ones know it."

-- Steve Siebold


"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

-- T.S. Eliot


"I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me."

-- Erica Jong


"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly."

-- Robert H. Schuller

The Root of Joy

"The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful."

-- Brother David Steindl-Rast


"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."

-- Joan Didion


"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

-- Aristotle


"Committing to excellence means sharing the risk required in generating maximum returns and pursuing victory together. Effective team players know that achieving peak performance requires positive attitudes and inspiring beliefs on everyone's part. Sustaining peak performance requires humility, dignity and grace."

-- John J. Murphy

Learn To Forgive

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."

-- Paul Boese


"When anger rises, think of the consequences."

-- Confusious


"Our Dash moves with lightning speed. It feels like yesterday that I graduated from college...and now thirty-eight years have passed. Although I'm very proud of my business accomplishments, in the end my life comes back to loving and being loved."

-- Mac Anderson


"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

-- Charles Kingsley

Life's Challenges

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they're supposed to help you discover who you are."

-- Bernice Johnson Reagon


"Women who feel unworthy will often find ways to sabotage their own success at work, in romantic relationships and with money....There are myriad ways in which unworthiness shows up in our lives. And in the end, it doesn't really matter how we got this way - the only thing that matters is what we do about it."

-- BJ Gallagher and Lisa Hammond


"Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius."

-- Elbert Hubbard


"Give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you."

-- Madeline Bridges

Being Happy Does Not Require Permission

"You don't need anyone else's permission to be happy. Your life is magnificent not because someone says it is, but because you choose to see it as such."

-- Ralph Marston


"Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill."

-- Charles Swindoll


"The willingness to do creates the ability to do."

-- Peter McWilliams


"Maintain the quality of your product or service. Your product or service is your calling card...and your business reputation. Like Mary Kay, who built her business on the "Golden Rule," you should create the same type of experience for your customers that you would like to receive."

-- Mac Anderson

Don't Wait, The World Is Never Perfect

"Our world will never be perfect. The rain will come, despite my best efforts to prevent it. Life is what you choose to make of it. State of mind is everything. If you cannot change what happens, then for your happiness, you must change your mindset."

-- Michelle Sedas


"Life does not happen to us, it happens from us."

-- Mike Wickett


"I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."

-- Christopher Reeve


"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."

-- Booker T. Washington

Set Big Goal and Achieve It

"You should not permit your present situation to influence your thinking or your decision making that regardless of your present situation you should proceed immediately to set a goal to achieve something so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time."

-- Bob Proctor


"Our baggage includes everything from once valid beliefs and practices that have outlived their usefulness, to misinformation and misconceptions that we've accepted (and even embraced) without much examination or thought."

-- Eric Harvey and Steve Ventura


"It's easier for companies to come up with new ideas than to let go of old ones."

-- Peter Drucker

Be A Real Winners In Life

"The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better."

-- Barbara Pletcher


"People need to decide to be happy."

-- Marty Martinson


"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

-- Charles Kingsley


"In one or two minutes of time we have the opportunity to define ourselves as human beings. There isn't much room for error."
- V.J. Smith

Say I Can Do It

"Every time you repeat the words, 'I can do it!' with conviction, you cancel or override your fear and increase your confidence. By repeating this affirmation over and over, you can eventually build your courage and confidence to the point where you are unafraid."

-- Brian Tracy


"Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend."

-- Winston Churchill


"Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't."

-- Jerry Rice


"Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound."

-- James Allen

Climb Over That Road Block

"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

-- Michael Jordan


"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal."

-- Hannah More


"Paradise is always where love dwells."

-- Jean Paul F. Richter


"You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make."

-- Gorden B. Hinkley

Power Up Your Enthusiasm

"Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another man has it for thirty days. But it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life."

-- Edward B. Butler


"If you're not fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."

-- Vince Lombardi


"You're alive. Do something.
The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated.
It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences.
It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act."

-- Barbara Hall

Speak Gratitude

"You teach gratitude to others by living it - every moment, every hour, every day. Others will see the happiness that gratitude brings, and soon, they too will be grateful. And before you know it, you have started an epidemic of gratitude - what could be more wonderful!"

-- BJ Gallagher


"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch heaven."

-- Johannes A. Gaertner


"I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude."

-- Judith M. Knowlton

The Creator

"The Creator has not given you a longing to do
that which you have no ability to do."

-- Orison Swett Marden


"Friends are like stars, you don't always see them,
but you know they're always there."

-- Vannii Arcri


"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to
discover ability in others is the true test."

-- Elbert Hubbard


"Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."

-- Epicurus

Refused To Become Discouraged

"History has noted that the most notable winners usually encounter heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. If it really hurts that bad, go ahead and cry -- you'll feel better."

-- B. C. Forbes


"Need a good cleanse on the inside? Find a funny friend. Have dinner with someone who makes you laugh out loud. See a movie that makes you laugh 'til you cry. You need a bath! On the inside."

-- Vicki Hitzges


"What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul."

-- Yiddish Proverb

When You Are In Balance

"Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance."

-- Brian Tracy


"Notice throughout the week relationships that cross your path, decisions you have to make, challenges you have to face, empty tasks that drain you, and opportunities that full you up! Watch others. Reflect on the disappointments and surprises that come up in the regular course of the week. Each can nurture your thinking about what you really value."

-- John Blumberg


"Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated. It satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented."

-- Arnold Palmer

Acquire Knowledge and Apply It

"It is your prime responsibility to acquire useful knowledge from others and to apply it appropriately. You don't have to reinvent the wheel, but you do have to learn from those who did."

-- Gary Ryan Blair


"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

-- Epictetus


"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom.
One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life."

-- Sandra Carey


"Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them."

-- Stephen R. Covey

Let Child Experience Consequences

"It is often an unpleasant experience for a parent, but a child must be allowed to experience the consequences for his actions and decisions. Whenever you intervene, you rob him of taking personal responsibility for his life, and you hinder the shaping of his personality."

-- Mac Anderson and Lance Wubbels


"There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house."

-- Joe Ryan


"Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow."

-- Gerald Vaughan


"Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week."

-- Spanish Proverb

Clear Well Written Goals Have Effect

"Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor."

-- Brian Tracy


"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now."

-- Alan Lakein


"The time to begin most things is ten years ago."

-- Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


"Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man."

--Jimmy Lyons

Our Teacher Call Failure

"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is
delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is
something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being
nothing.
"

-- Denis Waitley


"Worry gives a small thing a big shadow."

-- Swedish Proverb


"Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible."

-- George Claude Lorimer


"Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform."

-- Edward Young