BY By Remez Sasson
Here are a few tips for increasing happiness in daily life:
1) Endeavor to change the way you look at things. Always look at the bright side. The mind may drag you to think about negativity and difficulties. Don't let it. Look at the good and positive side of every situation.
2) Think of solutions, not problems.
3) Listen to relaxing, uplifting music.
4) Watch funny comedies that make you laugh.
5) Each day, devote some time to reading a few pages of an inspiring book or article.
6) Watch your thoughts. Whenever you catch yourself thinking negative thoughts, start thinking of pleasant things.
7) Always look at what you have done and not at what you haven't.
Sometimes you may begin the day with the desire to accomplish several objectives. At the end of the day you might feel frustrated and unhappy, because you haven't been able to do all of those things.
Look at what you have done, not at what you have not been able to do. You may have accomplished a lot during the day, and yet you let yourself become frustrated, because of some small things that you did not accomplish. You have spent all day successfully carrying out many plans, and instead of feeling happy and satisfied, you look at what was not accomplished and feel unhappy. It is unfair toward yourself.
8) Each day do something good for yourself. It can be something small, such buying a book, eating something you love, watching you favorite program on TV, going to a movie, or just having a stroll on the beach.
9) Each day do at least one act to make others happy. This can be a kind word, helping your colleagues, stopping your car at the crossroad to let people cross, giving your seat in a bus to someone else, or giving a small present to someone you love. The possibilities are infinite. When you make someone happy, you become happy, and then people try to make you happy.
10) Always expect happiness.
11) Do not envy people who are happy. On the contrary, be happy for their happiness.
12) Associate with happy people, and try to learn from them to be happy. Remember, happiness is contagious.
13) Do your best to stay detached, when things do not proceed as intended and desired. Detachment will help you stay calm and control your moods and reactions. Detachment is not indifference. It is the acceptance of the good and the bad and staying balanced. Detachment has much to do with inner peace, and inner peace is conductive to happiness.
14) Smile more often.
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Saturday, May 06, 2006
Winners vs Losers
A winner is always part of the answer.
A loser is always part of the problem.
A winner always has a plan.
A loser always has an excuse.
A winner says: "Let me do it for you."
A loser says: "That is not my job."
A winner sees an answer for any problem.
A loser sees a problem for any answer.
A winner sees a green near every sandtrap.
A loser sees two sandtraps near every green.
A winner says: "It may be difficult but it's possible."
A loser says: "It may be possible but it's too difficult."
Author Unknown
A loser is always part of the problem.
A winner always has a plan.
A loser always has an excuse.
A winner says: "Let me do it for you."
A loser says: "That is not my job."
A winner sees an answer for any problem.
A loser sees a problem for any answer.
A winner sees a green near every sandtrap.
A loser sees two sandtraps near every green.
A winner says: "It may be difficult but it's possible."
A loser says: "It may be possible but it's too difficult."
Author Unknown
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Positive Thoughts for Today
LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.
--Robert Browning
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the
self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe
in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
--Sam Walton
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of
the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny
pushes of each honest worker.
--Helen Keller
Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.
--Robert Browning
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the
self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe
in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
--Sam Walton
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of
the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny
pushes of each honest worker.
--Helen Keller
POSITIVE THOUGHTS FOR TODAY
LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
Be curious, not judgmental.
-Walt Whitman
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
The great use of life is to spend it
for something that will outlast it.
-William James
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
All life is an experiment.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be curious, not judgmental.
-Walt Whitman
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
The great use of life is to spend it
for something that will outlast it.
-William James
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
All life is an experiment.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
SOAR AS HIGH AS YOU LIKE
SOAR AS HIGH AS YOU LIKE – BUT FOR GOD’S SAKE,
GET YOUR SAFETY NET IN PLACE FIRST!
by Rajen Devadason
Money isn’t the most important thing in life,
but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.
Zig Ziglar
Have you ever been to the circus and watched aerial artistes go through their motions on a high wire act?
If so, you should also have noticed, at least in passing, that the safety net strung out directly below the acrobats serves a rather important function.
To succeed in our financial lives, we too need a ‘safety net’. In my Malaysia-based financial planning practice, I insist that each carefully selected client puts in place a reserve fund of between 3 and 12 months’ expenses.
I call this reserve fund an emergency buffer account. Its purpose is to provide fiscal and emotional stability during times of economic upheaval.
You see, for most of us normal people, our biggest asset is not anything that shows up in a conventional net worth statement.
A net worth statement is nothing more than a simple listing of material assets and liabilities, which allows for quick calculation of your net worth position. (It’s quick because your net worth is mathematically derived by this simple formula:
NET WORTH = ASSETS minus LIABILITIES
Typical items that show up on the plus side of a net worth statement are key assets like cash, stocks, mutual funds or unit trusts, vehicles, gold, real estate and jewellery. Normal liability line items are home mortgages, credit card balances, car loans and family loans.
All these are important, but the biggest asset a person has is not one of the key assets I mentioned. The biggest asset for most of us is our capacity to earn money for 20, 30 or 40 years at our jobs.
Yet, let’s face it, most of the money most of us will ever earn quickly evaporates as personal expenses, interest charges or taxes.
Clearly, to be successful financially, we have to reduce that seemingly persistent rate of evaporation. Let me be blunt:
Our long-term future wealth can only be built from the bricks and mortar of the financial surplus we set aside each month.
This surplus should usually be invested in assets that fluctuate in value. It has been historically proven through more than 200 years of equity market data that those who are most able to ride the ups and downs of markets are the ones who tend to accumulate the most wealth.
But to be able to ride those nerve-wracking but eventually profitable fluctuations, you must have a safety net whose strong strands are made of cold hard cash. This safety net is your emergency buffer account.
However, if you’re concerned that you don’t know enough about investing to risk putting down real money in real investment markets, then what you need as much as an emergency buffer account is an education programme.
My FREE e-book 26 Books to Take YOU All the Way to the TOP! is an ideal resource to help you begin a five-year self-study programme in personal finance, economics and investing.
You are welcome to download this e-book at the main page of http://www.rajendevadason.com. Just scroll down to the E-bookstore section, click on its icon, and follow the download instructions.
Now, as I was saying about the ups and downs of markets, you will find that fluctuations in investment asset values usually go hand in hand with the dips and rises of the general economy.
The perverse side of Nature that has caused Murphy’s Law (‘if anything can go wrong, it will’) to gain such wide prominence is that in most cases when you need extra cash because of a downturn in your personal, internal economy, the entire external economy also chooses that moment to falter.
The only way to safely ride the bumps in our economies - general and specific - is to have our financial safety net in place.
So, look at your own circumstances, check your various bank balances, other savings and investment balances and figure out just how long you can last if a catastrophe takes place today that stops you from actively earning a living for one full year.
Be honest now, can you last a week, a month, three months, six months, nine months, or a year?
Only you can answer that question.
I hope you do just that because the answer you give the person you see in the mirror will help you confront honestly where you are in your life’s financial journey.
Again, your willingness to invest resources in educating yourself is directly correlated to your chances of long-term success in the financial arena. If you see yourself as a rookie in this field, then my very first book, Your A-Z Guide to the Stock Market – And all You Need to Know About Capital Terms, is a great resource. It contains 1,001 terms that are usefully cross-linked to help you take a self-directed journey of financial self-education. (If you would like to order a copy, do drop my associate Steven Poh an email at mailto:steven@i2media.com.my).
PRACTICAL STEPS YOU CAN TAKE!
Now, here are my guidelines on emergency buffer establishment for your consideration:
If you are employed by an established, healthy company that is unlikely to go bust anytime soon, put in place savings amounting to between three and six months’ normal expenses. If your boss loves you to bits and can’t get along without you, three months is plenty. But if your boss would love nothing better than to tear you to bits and spit out the pieces, err on the high side!
If you are self-employed, running your own business, make sure you have at least six months’ expenses available in savings if your business is in good shape with many clients who pay on time. If business is shaky, then opt for an increased buffer size. Having a full year’s reserves is generally more than enough for most people.
Warning: It may take as long as three years to build this buffer. So, keep at it and save diligently.
And remember, your emergency buffer is for emergencies, not for exciting ‘opportunities’ like a great sale at the local department store! Having your buffer will give you financial stability.
This stability will help you weather the ups and downs of the investment markets.
Just one point before I conclude: If you currently have very little saved as a buffer, you are in a financially precarious position.
It is imperative that you reduce your near-term expenses and build up your reserves as fast as you can to your targeted sum.
For most people, doing so usually takes anything from 12 to 36 months. It’ll be a long slog, unless you suddenly have a massive bonus land on your lap or have an investment go ballistic.
Do yourself a favour. Don’t bank on or hope for some strange occurrence to provide you with the funds needed to weave that safety net. Just do the work and set the money aside in a safe place where yields may be low but certainty of return is high.
GET YOUR SAFETY NET IN PLACE FIRST!
by Rajen Devadason
Money isn’t the most important thing in life,
but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.
Zig Ziglar
Have you ever been to the circus and watched aerial artistes go through their motions on a high wire act?
If so, you should also have noticed, at least in passing, that the safety net strung out directly below the acrobats serves a rather important function.
To succeed in our financial lives, we too need a ‘safety net’. In my Malaysia-based financial planning practice, I insist that each carefully selected client puts in place a reserve fund of between 3 and 12 months’ expenses.
I call this reserve fund an emergency buffer account. Its purpose is to provide fiscal and emotional stability during times of economic upheaval.
You see, for most of us normal people, our biggest asset is not anything that shows up in a conventional net worth statement.
A net worth statement is nothing more than a simple listing of material assets and liabilities, which allows for quick calculation of your net worth position. (It’s quick because your net worth is mathematically derived by this simple formula:
NET WORTH = ASSETS minus LIABILITIES
Typical items that show up on the plus side of a net worth statement are key assets like cash, stocks, mutual funds or unit trusts, vehicles, gold, real estate and jewellery. Normal liability line items are home mortgages, credit card balances, car loans and family loans.
All these are important, but the biggest asset a person has is not one of the key assets I mentioned. The biggest asset for most of us is our capacity to earn money for 20, 30 or 40 years at our jobs.
Yet, let’s face it, most of the money most of us will ever earn quickly evaporates as personal expenses, interest charges or taxes.
Clearly, to be successful financially, we have to reduce that seemingly persistent rate of evaporation. Let me be blunt:
Our long-term future wealth can only be built from the bricks and mortar of the financial surplus we set aside each month.
This surplus should usually be invested in assets that fluctuate in value. It has been historically proven through more than 200 years of equity market data that those who are most able to ride the ups and downs of markets are the ones who tend to accumulate the most wealth.
But to be able to ride those nerve-wracking but eventually profitable fluctuations, you must have a safety net whose strong strands are made of cold hard cash. This safety net is your emergency buffer account.
However, if you’re concerned that you don’t know enough about investing to risk putting down real money in real investment markets, then what you need as much as an emergency buffer account is an education programme.
My FREE e-book 26 Books to Take YOU All the Way to the TOP! is an ideal resource to help you begin a five-year self-study programme in personal finance, economics and investing.
You are welcome to download this e-book at the main page of http://www.rajendevadason.com. Just scroll down to the E-bookstore section, click on its icon, and follow the download instructions.
Now, as I was saying about the ups and downs of markets, you will find that fluctuations in investment asset values usually go hand in hand with the dips and rises of the general economy.
The perverse side of Nature that has caused Murphy’s Law (‘if anything can go wrong, it will’) to gain such wide prominence is that in most cases when you need extra cash because of a downturn in your personal, internal economy, the entire external economy also chooses that moment to falter.
The only way to safely ride the bumps in our economies - general and specific - is to have our financial safety net in place.
So, look at your own circumstances, check your various bank balances, other savings and investment balances and figure out just how long you can last if a catastrophe takes place today that stops you from actively earning a living for one full year.
Be honest now, can you last a week, a month, three months, six months, nine months, or a year?
Only you can answer that question.
I hope you do just that because the answer you give the person you see in the mirror will help you confront honestly where you are in your life’s financial journey.
Again, your willingness to invest resources in educating yourself is directly correlated to your chances of long-term success in the financial arena. If you see yourself as a rookie in this field, then my very first book, Your A-Z Guide to the Stock Market – And all You Need to Know About Capital Terms, is a great resource. It contains 1,001 terms that are usefully cross-linked to help you take a self-directed journey of financial self-education. (If you would like to order a copy, do drop my associate Steven Poh an email at mailto:steven@i2media.com.my).
PRACTICAL STEPS YOU CAN TAKE!
Now, here are my guidelines on emergency buffer establishment for your consideration:
If you are employed by an established, healthy company that is unlikely to go bust anytime soon, put in place savings amounting to between three and six months’ normal expenses. If your boss loves you to bits and can’t get along without you, three months is plenty. But if your boss would love nothing better than to tear you to bits and spit out the pieces, err on the high side!
If you are self-employed, running your own business, make sure you have at least six months’ expenses available in savings if your business is in good shape with many clients who pay on time. If business is shaky, then opt for an increased buffer size. Having a full year’s reserves is generally more than enough for most people.
Warning: It may take as long as three years to build this buffer. So, keep at it and save diligently.
And remember, your emergency buffer is for emergencies, not for exciting ‘opportunities’ like a great sale at the local department store! Having your buffer will give you financial stability.
This stability will help you weather the ups and downs of the investment markets.
Just one point before I conclude: If you currently have very little saved as a buffer, you are in a financially precarious position.
It is imperative that you reduce your near-term expenses and build up your reserves as fast as you can to your targeted sum.
For most people, doing so usually takes anything from 12 to 36 months. It’ll be a long slog, unless you suddenly have a massive bonus land on your lap or have an investment go ballistic.
Do yourself a favour. Don’t bank on or hope for some strange occurrence to provide you with the funds needed to weave that safety net. Just do the work and set the money aside in a safe place where yields may be low but certainty of return is high.
DON’T LET GO OF YOUR DREAMS
DON’T LET GO OF YOUR DREAMS – NOT AGAIN!
by Rajen Devadason
Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there,
wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to
dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe
You wake up screaming!
Your spouse calms you down; reassuring you it was just another nightmare.
Even as you settle back and start drifting into slumber again, you wonder why the only dreams you have nowadays are bad ones.
What happened to your once fertile imagination that was able to conjure exciting, almost always enjoyable dreams; pleasurable mental movies you could play against the screen of your inner eyelids day or night, awake or asleep?
The problem so many of us face in daily life is one of encroaching walls; figurative rock faces that creep toward us inexorably, leaving us with less and less room to manoeuvre.
If you remember the trash compressor scene in Star Wars where Han Solo, Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker are trapped, we’ll be on the same wavelength!
When we were younger, it seemed our imaginations allowed us to roam the world, making it our stage or better yet our playground.
But we allowed ourselves to grow up - and not always in the right way. Many of us have lost the ability to dream big, great dreams that fuel mental excursions.
And that’s tragic, because those exciting journeys within our skulls are the only things that permit us to grow beyond the normal confines of our too often drab lives.
Thankfully, none of us has totally lost that ability to dream and imagine. I can prove it!
When you’re stuck behind a desk that seems to have grown shackles that attach themselves to your ankles and wrists, don’t you readily dream of a better place, a better way of life?
The problem is those dreams tend not to last too long. Someone or something is always crashing into our reality, bringing us back to earth with a rather hard bump.
But if we want to lay claim to a life that is bigger than the one we now live, we must recapture that long-lost childhood facility to dream good dreams for sustained periods.
You see, being able to see beyond things as they are now, through rosy mists of future probability and then perceiving them as they might be, is the common denominator of life’s big winners.
If they can do it, so can you, because all of humanity shares that God-given endowment. As Stephen Covey puts it, “In addition to self-awareness, we have imagination - the ability to create in our minds beyond our present reality.”
If you use your ability to imagine properly, it will expand into one of the most potent time management tools at your disposal - your capacity to idealise and dream of a better future.
Of course, we all know people who do nothing but dream. I’m not asking you to become such an airhead. I’m saying you need to give yourself permission to look beyond perhaps the grey, drab walls of your existence and ask yourself if this is the rich, abundant life God created you for.
Most people would have to say NO.
That would be a great first step.
The second is to grant yourself permission to daydream actively for short spells at a time - even if it is only for 30 seconds while stuck in a traffic jam. (Of course, if you commute to work using public transport, you have even more time at your disposal.)
So, get a dedicated little notebook and jot down whatever comes to mind during these brief, but precious mental excursions.
MY OWN EXPERIENCE
I remember doing a similar exercise about a decade ago, when I felt trapped in a great paying job that was nonetheless squeezing every drop of joy out of my life.
And so I dreamt and wrote, wrote and dreamt, and then wrote some more.
If you think that a similar exercise will help you detect what’s important to you, then you really should get to know yourself better by tapping into your dream bank.
I consider this so important that Step 2 in my e-book 5 Steps to a Saner Life is DREAM.
Most people know how to dream at night. But they have a problem retaining their far more vital lifetime dreams within a solid framework for awakened review.
Such a pragmatic framework allows those who know how to go about it well to follow up on those dreams, to prioritise them, then to take action on the most exciting ones.
Are you among those who want to recapture lost dreams but are not sure how to do so? Then, 5 Steps to a Saner Life includes a starter list of such dreams. It contains the outrageous mingled with the challenging and practical. You can buy your own copy of this great e-book by returning to the main page of http://www.rajendevadason.com, and scrolling down to the E-bookstore section.
After a long while of working through practical exercises of dream harvesting, I began noticing a pattern in where my thoughts kept taking me.
I spent a long time charting my dreams and thoughts. Then came the time to stop dreaming and to take action!
I had to gather my courage and walk away from the security of that soul-sapping high-paying job onto a path only dimly lit by the lamp of those written dreams.
Since then, some months, even years, have been very hard. But looking back, it’s been worth it to get from there to here.
I’m not asking you to quit your job. Just to give yourself permission to start to dream again.
And then to have the courage to pursue the right dreams.
In this context, I love what Benjamin Franklin once wrote, “To be thrown upon one’s own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.”
And so, the way I see it, finding the courage to reignite your latent ability to dream and having the discipline to record those dreams is just a tiny, tiny step away from giving yourself permission to truly start living again!
by Rajen Devadason
Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there,
wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to
dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe
You wake up screaming!
Your spouse calms you down; reassuring you it was just another nightmare.
Even as you settle back and start drifting into slumber again, you wonder why the only dreams you have nowadays are bad ones.
What happened to your once fertile imagination that was able to conjure exciting, almost always enjoyable dreams; pleasurable mental movies you could play against the screen of your inner eyelids day or night, awake or asleep?
The problem so many of us face in daily life is one of encroaching walls; figurative rock faces that creep toward us inexorably, leaving us with less and less room to manoeuvre.
If you remember the trash compressor scene in Star Wars where Han Solo, Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker are trapped, we’ll be on the same wavelength!
When we were younger, it seemed our imaginations allowed us to roam the world, making it our stage or better yet our playground.
But we allowed ourselves to grow up - and not always in the right way. Many of us have lost the ability to dream big, great dreams that fuel mental excursions.
And that’s tragic, because those exciting journeys within our skulls are the only things that permit us to grow beyond the normal confines of our too often drab lives.
Thankfully, none of us has totally lost that ability to dream and imagine. I can prove it!
When you’re stuck behind a desk that seems to have grown shackles that attach themselves to your ankles and wrists, don’t you readily dream of a better place, a better way of life?
The problem is those dreams tend not to last too long. Someone or something is always crashing into our reality, bringing us back to earth with a rather hard bump.
But if we want to lay claim to a life that is bigger than the one we now live, we must recapture that long-lost childhood facility to dream good dreams for sustained periods.
You see, being able to see beyond things as they are now, through rosy mists of future probability and then perceiving them as they might be, is the common denominator of life’s big winners.
If they can do it, so can you, because all of humanity shares that God-given endowment. As Stephen Covey puts it, “In addition to self-awareness, we have imagination - the ability to create in our minds beyond our present reality.”
If you use your ability to imagine properly, it will expand into one of the most potent time management tools at your disposal - your capacity to idealise and dream of a better future.
Of course, we all know people who do nothing but dream. I’m not asking you to become such an airhead. I’m saying you need to give yourself permission to look beyond perhaps the grey, drab walls of your existence and ask yourself if this is the rich, abundant life God created you for.
Most people would have to say NO.
That would be a great first step.
The second is to grant yourself permission to daydream actively for short spells at a time - even if it is only for 30 seconds while stuck in a traffic jam. (Of course, if you commute to work using public transport, you have even more time at your disposal.)
So, get a dedicated little notebook and jot down whatever comes to mind during these brief, but precious mental excursions.
MY OWN EXPERIENCE
I remember doing a similar exercise about a decade ago, when I felt trapped in a great paying job that was nonetheless squeezing every drop of joy out of my life.
And so I dreamt and wrote, wrote and dreamt, and then wrote some more.
If you think that a similar exercise will help you detect what’s important to you, then you really should get to know yourself better by tapping into your dream bank.
I consider this so important that Step 2 in my e-book 5 Steps to a Saner Life is DREAM.
Most people know how to dream at night. But they have a problem retaining their far more vital lifetime dreams within a solid framework for awakened review.
Such a pragmatic framework allows those who know how to go about it well to follow up on those dreams, to prioritise them, then to take action on the most exciting ones.
Are you among those who want to recapture lost dreams but are not sure how to do so? Then, 5 Steps to a Saner Life includes a starter list of such dreams. It contains the outrageous mingled with the challenging and practical. You can buy your own copy of this great e-book by returning to the main page of http://www.rajendevadason.com, and scrolling down to the E-bookstore section.
After a long while of working through practical exercises of dream harvesting, I began noticing a pattern in where my thoughts kept taking me.
I spent a long time charting my dreams and thoughts. Then came the time to stop dreaming and to take action!
I had to gather my courage and walk away from the security of that soul-sapping high-paying job onto a path only dimly lit by the lamp of those written dreams.
Since then, some months, even years, have been very hard. But looking back, it’s been worth it to get from there to here.
I’m not asking you to quit your job. Just to give yourself permission to start to dream again.
And then to have the courage to pursue the right dreams.
In this context, I love what Benjamin Franklin once wrote, “To be thrown upon one’s own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.”
And so, the way I see it, finding the courage to reignite your latent ability to dream and having the discipline to record those dreams is just a tiny, tiny step away from giving yourself permission to truly start living again!
Thursday, April 06, 2006
INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHTS
Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift.
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When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us.
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It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
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Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.
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The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
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source : www.superlaugh.com
Contributed by nitya
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When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us.
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It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
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Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.
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The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
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source : www.superlaugh.com
Contributed by nitya
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
DAILY POSITIVE THOUGHTS 4.4.06
LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live
without. --James C. Dobson
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried
is the true failure. --George E. Woodberry
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
In faith there is enough light for those who want to
believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
--Blaise Pascal
Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live
without. --James C. Dobson
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried
is the true failure. --George E. Woodberry
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
In faith there is enough light for those who want to
believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
--Blaise Pascal
Saturday, April 01, 2006
DAILY POSITIVE QUOTES
LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
--Gilbert K. Chesterton
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair
for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not
enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain
sense of purpose. --Margaret Thatcher
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop
a hunger to accomplish your dreams. --Les Brown
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
--Gilbert K. Chesterton
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair
for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not
enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain
sense of purpose. --Margaret Thatcher
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop
a hunger to accomplish your dreams. --Les Brown
Thursday, March 30, 2006
DAILY POSITIVE THOUGHTS
LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure
are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure
are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden
DAILY POSITIVE THOUGHTS
LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure
are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure
are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden
DAILY POSITIVE THOUGHTS
Do all things with love.
Og Mandino
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at
earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis
Og Mandino
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at
earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis
DAILY POSITIVE THOUGHTS
LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
There is always a Higher and Lower Way,
your Choice is Your Way!
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
Twenty years from now, you will be more
disappointed by the things you did NOT do
than by the things 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
There is always a Higher and Lower Way,
your Choice is Your Way!
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
Twenty years from now, you will be more
disappointed by the things you did NOT do
than by the things 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
DAILY POSITIVE THOUGHTS
LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much
the heart can hold. --Zelda Fitzgerald
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable
of all our possessions. --John Randolph
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the
whole staircase. --Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much
the heart can hold. --Zelda Fitzgerald
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable
of all our possessions. --John Randolph
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the
whole staircase. --Martin Luther King, Jr.
Saturday, March 25, 2006
FULLFILL YOUR GOAL
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal,
the more assuredly the idea,
buried deep in our subconscious,
will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
Earl Nightingale
the more assuredly the idea,
buried deep in our subconscious,
will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
Earl Nightingale
ATTITUDE
There is a little difference in people,
but that little difference makes a big difference.
That little difference is attitude.
The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
W. Clement Stone
but that little difference makes a big difference.
That little difference is attitude.
The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
W. Clement Stone
Friday, March 24, 2006
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
The Thread of a Dream By Denis Waitley
When I was researching the history of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge
as a major illustration for the ideas of success and motivation, I became
engrossed with the story of how the first bridge was built over Niagara Falls.
You see, to build a bridge over a giant gorge, first you have to get a line
over the canyon, from one side to the other. Easier said than done at
Niagara Falls.
The engineers couldn't cross the falls in a boat to take the line from one
side to the other because the boat would go over the falls. And the airplane
hadn't been invented yet. The distance was also way beyond the bow-and-arrow
range, which had been a common method at the time of getting the first
line across to build a bridge.
The designing engineer, Charles Ellet, pondered the question until he came
up with a revolutionary idea. He decided that, while solving the problem,
he would also have some fun and generate some publicity for the project.
Ellet sponsored a kite flying contest and offered five dollars to the first person
who could fly a kite across the gorge and let it go low enough to the ground
for someone to be able to grab the string.
In 1849, five dollars was a prize similar to a small lottery today. The boy who
won the prize relished his accomplishment until his death, nearly 80 years later.
It all began with an idea and one thin kite string. The kite string was used to
pull a cord across, then a line, then a rope. Next came an iron-wire cable
and then steel cables, until a structure strong enough to build a suspension
bridge was in place.
I'm struck by how that string is like a single thought. The more vivid and
clear the thought, and the more you come back to it, the stronger it
becomes - like the string to the rope to a cable. Each time you rethink it,
dwell on it, or layer it with other thoughts, you are strengthening the
structure on which to build your idea, like building a bridge over Niagara Falls.
But unlike a kite, there is no string attached to how high and how far your
goals may take you. They are limited only by the power of your imagination .
and the strength of your desire.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Denis Waitley is one of America's most respected authors, keynote lecturers
and productivity consultants on high performance human achievement. Visit
his website at www.deniswaitley.com, tell him Mr. Positive sent you!
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
as a major illustration for the ideas of success and motivation, I became
engrossed with the story of how the first bridge was built over Niagara Falls.
You see, to build a bridge over a giant gorge, first you have to get a line
over the canyon, from one side to the other. Easier said than done at
Niagara Falls.
The engineers couldn't cross the falls in a boat to take the line from one
side to the other because the boat would go over the falls. And the airplane
hadn't been invented yet. The distance was also way beyond the bow-and-arrow
range, which had been a common method at the time of getting the first
line across to build a bridge.
The designing engineer, Charles Ellet, pondered the question until he came
up with a revolutionary idea. He decided that, while solving the problem,
he would also have some fun and generate some publicity for the project.
Ellet sponsored a kite flying contest and offered five dollars to the first person
who could fly a kite across the gorge and let it go low enough to the ground
for someone to be able to grab the string.
In 1849, five dollars was a prize similar to a small lottery today. The boy who
won the prize relished his accomplishment until his death, nearly 80 years later.
It all began with an idea and one thin kite string. The kite string was used to
pull a cord across, then a line, then a rope. Next came an iron-wire cable
and then steel cables, until a structure strong enough to build a suspension
bridge was in place.
I'm struck by how that string is like a single thought. The more vivid and
clear the thought, and the more you come back to it, the stronger it
becomes - like the string to the rope to a cable. Each time you rethink it,
dwell on it, or layer it with other thoughts, you are strengthening the
structure on which to build your idea, like building a bridge over Niagara Falls.
But unlike a kite, there is no string attached to how high and how far your
goals may take you. They are limited only by the power of your imagination .
and the strength of your desire.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Denis Waitley is one of America's most respected authors, keynote lecturers
and productivity consultants on high performance human achievement. Visit
his website at www.deniswaitley.com, tell him Mr. Positive sent you!
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Positive Thoughts for Today
LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
There can be no friendship when there is no
freedom. Friendship loves the free air, and
will not be fenced up in straight and narrow
enclosures. --William Penn
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
I don't know the key to success, but the key
to failure is trying to please everybody.
--Bill Cosby
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
--Helen Keller
There can be no friendship when there is no
freedom. Friendship loves the free air, and
will not be fenced up in straight and narrow
enclosures. --William Penn
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
I don't know the key to success, but the key
to failure is trying to please everybody.
--Bill Cosby
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
--Helen Keller
Saturday, March 18, 2006
DAILY DOSE OF POSITIVITY
LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
The language of friendship is not words
but meanings. --Henry David Thoreau
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
How can they say my life is not a success?
Have I not for more than sixty years got
enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
--Logan P. Smith
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
Things do not change; we change.
--Henry David Thoreau
The language of friendship is not words
but meanings. --Henry David Thoreau
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
How can they say my life is not a success?
Have I not for more than sixty years got
enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
--Logan P. Smith
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
Things do not change; we change.
--Henry David Thoreau
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
The Daffodil Principle
Plant One Today...
by Jaroldeen Asplund Edwards -
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Several times my daughter had telephoned to say, "Mother, you must come to see the daffodils before they are over."
I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Laguna to Lake Arrowhead "I will come next Tuesday", I promised a little reluctantly on her third call.
Next Tuesday dawned cold and rainy. Still, I had promised, and reluctantly I drove there. When I finally walked into Carolyn's house I was welcomed by the joyful sounds of happy children. I delightedly hugged and greeted my grandchildren.
"Forget the daffodils, Carolyn! The road is invisible in these clouds and fog, and there is nothing in the world except you and these children that I want to see badly enough to drive another inch!"
My daughter smiled calmly and said, "We drive in this all the time, Mother."
"Well, you won't get me back on the road until it clears, and then I'm heading for home!" I assured her.
"I was hoping you'd take me over to the garage to pick up my car."
"How far will we have to drive?"
"Oh...just a few blocks," Carolyn said. "But I'll drive. I'm used to this."
After several minutes, I had to ask, "Where are we going? This isn't the way to the garage!"
"We're going to my garage the long way," Carolyn smiled, "by way of the daffodils."
"Carolyn," I said sternly, "please turn around."
"It's all right, Mother, I promise. You will never forgive yourself if you miss this experience."
After about twenty minutes, we turned onto a small gravel road and I saw a small church. On the far side of the church, I saw a hand lettered sign with an arrow that read, "Daffodil Garden." We got out of the car, each took a child's hand, and I followed Carolyn down the path. Then, as we turned a corner, I looked up and gasped...
Before me lay the most glorious sight. It looked as though someone had taken a great vat of gold and poured it over the mountain peak and it's surrounding slopes. The flowers were planted in majestic, swirling patterns, great ribbons and swaths of deep orange, creamy white, lemon yellow, salmon pink, and saffron and butter yellow. Each different-colored variety was planted in large groups so that it swirled and flowed like its own river with its own unique hue.
There were five acres of flowers.
"Who did this?" I asked Carolyn.
"Just one woman," Carolyn answered. "She lives on the property. That's her home."
Carolyn pointed to a well kept A-frame house, small and modestly sitting in the midst of all that glory. We walked up to the house.
On the patio, we saw a poster. "Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking" was the headline. The first answer was a simple one. "50,000 bulbs," it read. The second answer was, "One at a time, by one woman. Two hands, two feet, and one brain." The third answer was, "Began in 1958."
For me, that moment was a life-changing experience. I thought of this woman whom I had never met, who, more than forty years before, had begun, one bulb at a time, to bring her vision of beauty and joy to an obscure mountaintop.
Planting one bulb at a time, year after year, this unknown woman had forever changed the world in which she lived. One day at a time, she had created something of extraordinary magnificence, beauty, and inspiration.
The principle her daffodil garden taught is one of the greatest principles of celebration. That is, learning to move toward our goals and desires one step at a time -- often just one baby-step at time -- and learning to love the doing, learning to use the accumulation of time. When we multiply tiny pieces of time with small increments of daily effort, we too will find we can accomplish magnificent things. We can change the world.
"It makes me sad in a way," I admitted to Carolyn. "What might I have accomplished if I had thought of a wonderful goal thirty-five or forty years ago and had worked away at it 'one bulb at a time' through all those years? Just think what I might have been able to achieve!"
My daughter summed up the message of the day in her usual direct way.
"Start tomorrow," she said.
She was right. It's so pointless to think of the lost hours of yesterdays. The way to make learning a lesson of celebration instead of a cause for regret is to only ask, "How can I put this to use today?"
by Jaroldeen Asplund Edwards -
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Several times my daughter had telephoned to say, "Mother, you must come to see the daffodils before they are over."
I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Laguna to Lake Arrowhead "I will come next Tuesday", I promised a little reluctantly on her third call.
Next Tuesday dawned cold and rainy. Still, I had promised, and reluctantly I drove there. When I finally walked into Carolyn's house I was welcomed by the joyful sounds of happy children. I delightedly hugged and greeted my grandchildren.
"Forget the daffodils, Carolyn! The road is invisible in these clouds and fog, and there is nothing in the world except you and these children that I want to see badly enough to drive another inch!"
My daughter smiled calmly and said, "We drive in this all the time, Mother."
"Well, you won't get me back on the road until it clears, and then I'm heading for home!" I assured her.
"I was hoping you'd take me over to the garage to pick up my car."
"How far will we have to drive?"
"Oh...just a few blocks," Carolyn said. "But I'll drive. I'm used to this."
After several minutes, I had to ask, "Where are we going? This isn't the way to the garage!"
"We're going to my garage the long way," Carolyn smiled, "by way of the daffodils."
"Carolyn," I said sternly, "please turn around."
"It's all right, Mother, I promise. You will never forgive yourself if you miss this experience."
After about twenty minutes, we turned onto a small gravel road and I saw a small church. On the far side of the church, I saw a hand lettered sign with an arrow that read, "Daffodil Garden." We got out of the car, each took a child's hand, and I followed Carolyn down the path. Then, as we turned a corner, I looked up and gasped...
Before me lay the most glorious sight. It looked as though someone had taken a great vat of gold and poured it over the mountain peak and it's surrounding slopes. The flowers were planted in majestic, swirling patterns, great ribbons and swaths of deep orange, creamy white, lemon yellow, salmon pink, and saffron and butter yellow. Each different-colored variety was planted in large groups so that it swirled and flowed like its own river with its own unique hue.
There were five acres of flowers.
"Who did this?" I asked Carolyn.
"Just one woman," Carolyn answered. "She lives on the property. That's her home."
Carolyn pointed to a well kept A-frame house, small and modestly sitting in the midst of all that glory. We walked up to the house.
On the patio, we saw a poster. "Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking" was the headline. The first answer was a simple one. "50,000 bulbs," it read. The second answer was, "One at a time, by one woman. Two hands, two feet, and one brain." The third answer was, "Began in 1958."
For me, that moment was a life-changing experience. I thought of this woman whom I had never met, who, more than forty years before, had begun, one bulb at a time, to bring her vision of beauty and joy to an obscure mountaintop.
Planting one bulb at a time, year after year, this unknown woman had forever changed the world in which she lived. One day at a time, she had created something of extraordinary magnificence, beauty, and inspiration.
The principle her daffodil garden taught is one of the greatest principles of celebration. That is, learning to move toward our goals and desires one step at a time -- often just one baby-step at time -- and learning to love the doing, learning to use the accumulation of time. When we multiply tiny pieces of time with small increments of daily effort, we too will find we can accomplish magnificent things. We can change the world.
"It makes me sad in a way," I admitted to Carolyn. "What might I have accomplished if I had thought of a wonderful goal thirty-five or forty years ago and had worked away at it 'one bulb at a time' through all those years? Just think what I might have been able to achieve!"
My daughter summed up the message of the day in her usual direct way.
"Start tomorrow," she said.
She was right. It's so pointless to think of the lost hours of yesterdays. The way to make learning a lesson of celebration instead of a cause for regret is to only ask, "How can I put this to use today?"
DAILY POSITIVE DOSE
LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
Friendship... is not something you learn
in school. But if you haven't learned the
meaning of friendship, you really haven't
learned anything. --Muhammad Ali
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
It's easy to make a buck. It's a
lot tougher to make a difference.
--Tom Brokaw
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
Life belongs to the living, and he
who lives must be prepared for changes.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Friendship... is not something you learn
in school. But if you haven't learned the
meaning of friendship, you really haven't
learned anything. --Muhammad Ali
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
It's easy to make a buck. It's a
lot tougher to make a difference.
--Tom Brokaw
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
Life belongs to the living, and he
who lives must be prepared for changes.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
DAILY POSITIVE DOSE
LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
Friendship... is not something you learn
in school. But if you haven't learned the
meaning of friendship, you really haven't
learned anything. --Muhammad Ali
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
It's easy to make a buck. It's a
lot tougher to make a difference.
--Tom Brokaw
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
Life belongs to the living, and he
who lives must be prepared for changes.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Friendship... is not something you learn
in school. But if you haven't learned the
meaning of friendship, you really haven't
learned anything. --Muhammad Ali
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
It's easy to make a buck. It's a
lot tougher to make a difference.
--Tom Brokaw
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
Life belongs to the living, and he
who lives must be prepared for changes.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
good food for thoughts
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
— Albert Schweitzer
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 7/18/05
There's no thrill in easy sailing ... but there IS satisfaction that's mighty sweet to take, when you reach a destination that you thought you'd never make.
— Spirella
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 10/18/04
When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.
— Patrick Overton Educator, Poet, Playwright, Author, and Speaker
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 8/2/04
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
— Oprah Winfrey, Motivational TV Talkshow Host
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 1/19/04
When our Hope, Faith and Belief transcend into clear KNOWINGNESS ... we are then truly awake to experience all that Beingness can offer.
— Chelle Thompson, Editor of Inspiration Line
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 11/10//03
An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so.
— Shakti Gawain, Personal Growth Author and Motivational Speaker
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 7/21/03
For yesterday I hold no apologies, For tomorrow I hold no answers, today is a gift and I will honor it by fully living in it.
— Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey, Contemporary American Writer
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 7/7/03
Each choice we make causes a ripple effect in our lives. When things happen to us, it is the reaction we choose that can create the difference between the sorrows of our past and the joy in our future.
— Chelle Thompson, Editor of Inspiration Line
© 2003 Inspiration Line
The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen.
— Roy E. Moody
Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do.
— Vince Poscente (Invincible Principles)
When people are highly motivated, it's easy to accomplish the impossible. And when they're not, it's impossible to accomplish the easy.
— Bob Collings
If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.
— Gen. George Patton
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
— Unknown
Appreciation can make a day — even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
— Margaret Cousins
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
— Albert Schweitzer
May you find serenity and tranquility in a world you may not always understand. May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism. Always know that there are those whose love and understanding will always be there, even when you feel most alone. May you discover enough goodness in others to believe in a world of peace. May a kind word, a reassuring touch, and a warm smile be yours every day of your life, and may you give these gifts as well as receive them. Remember the sunshine when the storm seems unending.
— Unknown
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
— Alexander Graham Bell
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
— Patanjali (c. 1st to 3rd century BC)
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
— Goethe
Die when I may, I want it said of me that I plucked a weed and planted a flower where ever I thought a flower would grow.
— Abraham Lincoln
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible.
— Virginia Satir
The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence.
— Sue Atchley Ebaugh
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
— G. K. Chesterton
If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.
— Loretta Girzartis
If your treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The eternal beginning in you always existed, it exists now, and it will always exist; its time will never end.
— Brahmin Wisdom
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
— Eric Hoffer
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
— George Matthew Adams
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
— Elizabeth Harrison
You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.
— Jim Stovall (Success Secrets of Super Achievers)
What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
— Dr. Robert Schuller
— Albert Schweitzer
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 7/18/05
There's no thrill in easy sailing ... but there IS satisfaction that's mighty sweet to take, when you reach a destination that you thought you'd never make.
— Spirella
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 10/18/04
When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.
— Patrick Overton Educator, Poet, Playwright, Author, and Speaker
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 8/2/04
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
— Oprah Winfrey, Motivational TV Talkshow Host
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 1/19/04
When our Hope, Faith and Belief transcend into clear KNOWINGNESS ... we are then truly awake to experience all that Beingness can offer.
— Chelle Thompson, Editor of Inspiration Line
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 11/10//03
An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so.
— Shakti Gawain, Personal Growth Author and Motivational Speaker
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 7/21/03
For yesterday I hold no apologies, For tomorrow I hold no answers, today is a gift and I will honor it by fully living in it.
— Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey, Contemporary American Writer
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 7/7/03
Each choice we make causes a ripple effect in our lives. When things happen to us, it is the reaction we choose that can create the difference between the sorrows of our past and the joy in our future.
— Chelle Thompson, Editor of Inspiration Line
© 2003 Inspiration Line
The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen.
— Roy E. Moody
Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do.
— Vince Poscente (Invincible Principles)
When people are highly motivated, it's easy to accomplish the impossible. And when they're not, it's impossible to accomplish the easy.
— Bob Collings
If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.
— Gen. George Patton
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
— Unknown
Appreciation can make a day — even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
— Margaret Cousins
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
— Albert Schweitzer
May you find serenity and tranquility in a world you may not always understand. May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism. Always know that there are those whose love and understanding will always be there, even when you feel most alone. May you discover enough goodness in others to believe in a world of peace. May a kind word, a reassuring touch, and a warm smile be yours every day of your life, and may you give these gifts as well as receive them. Remember the sunshine when the storm seems unending.
— Unknown
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
— Alexander Graham Bell
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
— Patanjali (c. 1st to 3rd century BC)
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
— Goethe
Die when I may, I want it said of me that I plucked a weed and planted a flower where ever I thought a flower would grow.
— Abraham Lincoln
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible.
— Virginia Satir
The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence.
— Sue Atchley Ebaugh
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
— G. K. Chesterton
If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.
— Loretta Girzartis
If your treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The eternal beginning in you always existed, it exists now, and it will always exist; its time will never end.
— Brahmin Wisdom
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
— Eric Hoffer
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
— George Matthew Adams
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
— Elizabeth Harrison
You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.
— Jim Stovall (Success Secrets of Super Achievers)
What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
— Dr. Robert Schuller
LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
A loving heart is the beginning of
all knowledge. -Thomas Carlyle
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
Failure is success if we learn from it.
-Malcolm Forbes
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
-Muhammad Ali
all knowledge. -Thomas Carlyle
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
Failure is success if we learn from it.
-Malcolm Forbes
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
-Muhammad Ali
Monday, March 06, 2006
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Saturday, March 04, 2006
BELIEVE WHO YOU ARE
by: Gary Barnes, Source Unknown
Once upon a time, there was a large mountainside, where an eagle's nest rested.
The eagle's nest contained four large eagle eggs.
One day an earthquake rocked the mountain causing one of the eggs to roll down the mountain, to a chicken farm, located in the valley below.
The chickens knew that they must protect and care for the eagle's egg, so an old hen volunteered to nurture and raise the large egg.
One day, the egg hatched and a beautiful eagle was born.
Sadly, however, the eagle was raised to be a chicken.
Soon, the eagle believed he was nothing more than a chicken.
The eagle loved his home and family, but his spirit cried out for more.
While playing a game on the farm one day, the eagle looked to the skies above and noticed a group of mighty eagles soaring in the skies.
"Oh," the eagle cried, "I wish I could soar like those birds."
The chickens roared with laughter, "You cannot soar with those birds.
You are a chicken and chickens do not soar."
The eagle continued staring, at his real family up above, dreaming that he could be with them.
Each time the eagle would let his dreams be known, he was told it couldn't be done. That is what the eagle learned to believe.
The eagle, after time, stopped dreaming and continued to live his life like a chicken.
Finally, after a long life as a chicken, the eagle passed away.
The moral of the story:
You become what you believe you are;
so if you ever dream to become an eagle follow your dreams,
not the words of a chicken.
Once upon a time, there was a large mountainside, where an eagle's nest rested.
The eagle's nest contained four large eagle eggs.
One day an earthquake rocked the mountain causing one of the eggs to roll down the mountain, to a chicken farm, located in the valley below.
The chickens knew that they must protect and care for the eagle's egg, so an old hen volunteered to nurture and raise the large egg.
One day, the egg hatched and a beautiful eagle was born.
Sadly, however, the eagle was raised to be a chicken.
Soon, the eagle believed he was nothing more than a chicken.
The eagle loved his home and family, but his spirit cried out for more.
While playing a game on the farm one day, the eagle looked to the skies above and noticed a group of mighty eagles soaring in the skies.
"Oh," the eagle cried, "I wish I could soar like those birds."
The chickens roared with laughter, "You cannot soar with those birds.
You are a chicken and chickens do not soar."
The eagle continued staring, at his real family up above, dreaming that he could be with them.
Each time the eagle would let his dreams be known, he was told it couldn't be done. That is what the eagle learned to believe.
The eagle, after time, stopped dreaming and continued to live his life like a chicken.
Finally, after a long life as a chicken, the eagle passed away.
The moral of the story:
You become what you believe you are;
so if you ever dream to become an eagle follow your dreams,
not the words of a chicken.
FRUIT FOR THOUGHT
"When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce.
You look for reasons it is not doing well.
It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun.
You never blame the lettuce.
Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person.
But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument.
That is my experience.
No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.
If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change."
Thich Nhat Hanh
You look for reasons it is not doing well.
It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun.
You never blame the lettuce.
Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person.
But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument.
That is my experience.
No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.
If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change."
Thich Nhat Hanh
AN ACT OF LOVE
An act of love need not be a gesture great or grand…
A smile can work a miracle and show you understand.
Being there in time of need transcends the spoken word;
A helping hand is simply grand when hearts begin to bleed.
A prayer is nothing till it’s heard beyond the highest leaf,
But when it’s answered, oh my friend,
how strong is our belief!
An act of love may simply be a smile, a hug, a kiss…
But it’s a joy for all to see when troubles come like this...
Author Clay Harris
A smile can work a miracle and show you understand.
Being there in time of need transcends the spoken word;
A helping hand is simply grand when hearts begin to bleed.
A prayer is nothing till it’s heard beyond the highest leaf,
But when it’s answered, oh my friend,
how strong is our belief!
An act of love may simply be a smile, a hug, a kiss…
But it’s a joy for all to see when troubles come like this...
Author Clay Harris
Nice Lessons From Your Loyal Companion THE DOG
Laughing It Off
IF THE DOG WAS YOUR TEACHER
You would learn stuff like this:
1)When loved ones come home, always run to greet them.
2)Take naps and stretch before rising. Run, romp, and play daily.
3)Thrive on attention and let people touch you.
4)Avoid biting, when a simple growl will do.
5)On warm days, stop to lie on your back on the grass.
6)On hot days, drink lots of water and lay under a shady tree.
7)Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride.
8)Allow the experience of fresh air and the wind in your face to be pure ecstasy.
9)When it's in your best interest - practice obedience.
10)Let others know when they've invaded your territory.
11)When you're happy, dance around and wiggle your entire body.
12No matter how often you're scolded, don't buy into the guilt thing and pout -run right back and make friends.
13)Delight in the simple joy of a long walk.
14)Eat with gusto and enthusiasm.
15)Stop when you have had enough.
16)Be loyal.
17)Never pretend to be something you're not.
18)If what you want lies buried, dig until you find it.
19)When someone is having a bad day, be silent, sit close by and nuzzle them gently.
~Contributed by Bruce in Santa Fe, New Mexico
IF THE DOG WAS YOUR TEACHER
You would learn stuff like this:
1)When loved ones come home, always run to greet them.
2)Take naps and stretch before rising. Run, romp, and play daily.
3)Thrive on attention and let people touch you.
4)Avoid biting, when a simple growl will do.
5)On warm days, stop to lie on your back on the grass.
6)On hot days, drink lots of water and lay under a shady tree.
7)Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride.
8)Allow the experience of fresh air and the wind in your face to be pure ecstasy.
9)When it's in your best interest - practice obedience.
10)Let others know when they've invaded your territory.
11)When you're happy, dance around and wiggle your entire body.
12No matter how often you're scolded, don't buy into the guilt thing and pout -run right back and make friends.
13)Delight in the simple joy of a long walk.
14)Eat with gusto and enthusiasm.
15)Stop when you have had enough.
16)Be loyal.
17)Never pretend to be something you're not.
18)If what you want lies buried, dig until you find it.
19)When someone is having a bad day, be silent, sit close by and nuzzle them gently.
~Contributed by Bruce in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Thursday, March 02, 2006
daily thoughts from positive news network
LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. -Mother Teresa
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. -Mark Twain
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. -Charles Dickens
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. -Mother Teresa
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. -Mark Twain
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. -Charles Dickens
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
NEVER GIVE UP
One day I decided to quit...
I quit my job, my relationship, my spirituality...
I wanted to quit my life.
I went to the woods to have one last talk with God.
"God", I said. "Can you give me one good reason not toquit?"
His answer surprised me..."Look around", He said. "Do you see the fern and thebamboo?""Yes", I replied."When I planted the fern and the bamboo seeds, I tookvery good care of them. I gave them light. I gave them water.The fern quickly grew from the earth. Its brilliantgreen covered the floor. Yet nothing came from the bamboo seed.But I did not quit on the bamboo.
In the second yearthe Fern grew more vibrant and plentiful.And again, nothing came from the bamboo seed. But Idid not quit on thebamboo. He said.
"In year three there was still nothing from the bambooseed. But I would not quit.
In year four, again, there was nothing from the bamboosee.I would not quit." He said.
"Then in the fifth year a tiny sprout emerged from the earth.Compared to the fern it was seemingly small and insignificant...But just 6 months later the bamboo rose to over 100 feet tall.It had spent the five years growing roots. Those roots made it strong and gave it what it needed to survive.I would not give any of my creations a challenge it could not handle."
He said to me. "Did you know, my child, that all this time you have been struggling, you have actually been growing roots""I would not quit on the bamboo. I WOULD NEVER QUIT ON YOU.""Don't compare yourself to others." He said. "The bamboo had a different Purpose than the fern. Yet they both make the forest beautiful."
"Your time will come", God said to me. "You will rise high""How high should I rise" I asked."How high will the bamboo rise" He asked in return."As high as it can" I questioned."Yes." He said, "Give me glory by rising as high as you can."I left the forest and bring back this story.
I hope these words can help you see that God will never give up on you. Never Give up.
I quit my job, my relationship, my spirituality...
I wanted to quit my life.
I went to the woods to have one last talk with God.
"God", I said. "Can you give me one good reason not toquit?"
His answer surprised me..."Look around", He said. "Do you see the fern and thebamboo?""Yes", I replied."When I planted the fern and the bamboo seeds, I tookvery good care of them. I gave them light. I gave them water.The fern quickly grew from the earth. Its brilliantgreen covered the floor. Yet nothing came from the bamboo seed.But I did not quit on the bamboo.
In the second yearthe Fern grew more vibrant and plentiful.And again, nothing came from the bamboo seed. But Idid not quit on thebamboo. He said.
"In year three there was still nothing from the bambooseed. But I would not quit.
In year four, again, there was nothing from the bamboosee.I would not quit." He said.
"Then in the fifth year a tiny sprout emerged from the earth.Compared to the fern it was seemingly small and insignificant...But just 6 months later the bamboo rose to over 100 feet tall.It had spent the five years growing roots. Those roots made it strong and gave it what it needed to survive.I would not give any of my creations a challenge it could not handle."
He said to me. "Did you know, my child, that all this time you have been struggling, you have actually been growing roots""I would not quit on the bamboo. I WOULD NEVER QUIT ON YOU.""Don't compare yourself to others." He said. "The bamboo had a different Purpose than the fern. Yet they both make the forest beautiful."
"Your time will come", God said to me. "You will rise high""How high should I rise" I asked."How high will the bamboo rise" He asked in return."As high as it can" I questioned."Yes." He said, "Give me glory by rising as high as you can."I left the forest and bring back this story.
I hope these words can help you see that God will never give up on you. Never Give up.
CHANGE
Trying to master or control change is a fool’s game because change is inherently volatile and often totally unpredictable. Success cannot be realized by trying to control or master the unmasterable. But, when we stretch out of the comfort zone by trying to develop a new a new perspective of accepting changes and trying to use them as a tool that can help us grow and learn; our consciousness begins to shift and so does our sense of personal power.
parable from True Prosperity by Yehuda Berg
In ancient times, a King had a boulder placed on a roadway. Then he hid himself and watched to see if anyone would remove the huge rock. Some of the king's wealthiest merchants and courtiers came by and simply walked around it. Many loudly blamed the King for not keeping the roads clear, but none did anything about getting the stone out of the way.
Then a peasant came along carrying a load of vegetables. Upon approaching the boulder, the peasant laid down his burden and tried to move the stone to the side of the road. After much pushing and straining, he finally succeeded. After the peasant picked up his load of vegetables, he noticed a purse lying in the road where the boulder had been. The purse contained many gold coins and a note from the King indicating that the gold was for the person who removed the boulder from the roadway. The peasant learned what many of us never understand!
Every problem is an opportunity to improve our condition.
Then a peasant came along carrying a load of vegetables. Upon approaching the boulder, the peasant laid down his burden and tried to move the stone to the side of the road. After much pushing and straining, he finally succeeded. After the peasant picked up his load of vegetables, he noticed a purse lying in the road where the boulder had been. The purse contained many gold coins and a note from the King indicating that the gold was for the person who removed the boulder from the roadway. The peasant learned what many of us never understand!
Every problem is an opportunity to improve our condition.
POSITIVE THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY
Positive Thoughts for Today
++++++++++++++++++++++
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
++++++++++++++++++++++
LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without
expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
-Leo Buscaglia
expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
-Leo Buscaglia
LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit
on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot
from a winning touchdown. -Ross Perot
on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot
from a winning touchdown. -Ross Perot
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
-Henry David Thoreau
-Henry David Thoreau
Sunday, February 26, 2006
A HEALING PRESCRIPTION
I gathered a thousand kisses and into this bottle they flew,
Then I wrapped it in some loving hugs — prescribed especially for you:
No moving parts, no batteries; no monthly payments and no fees;
Inflation proof, nontaxable, in fact, it's quite relaxable;
It can't be stolen, won't pollute, one size fits all, do not dilute.
It uses little energy, but yields results enormously.
Relieves your tension and your stress; invigorates your happiness;
Combats depression, makes you beam, and elevates your self esteem!
Your circulation it corrects without unpleasant side effects
It is, I think, the perfect drug — may I prescribe, my friend:
THE HUG!
(And, of course, fully returnable!)
~Henry Matthew Ward
Then I wrapped it in some loving hugs — prescribed especially for you:
No moving parts, no batteries; no monthly payments and no fees;
Inflation proof, nontaxable, in fact, it's quite relaxable;
It can't be stolen, won't pollute, one size fits all, do not dilute.
It uses little energy, but yields results enormously.
Relieves your tension and your stress; invigorates your happiness;
Combats depression, makes you beam, and elevates your self esteem!
Your circulation it corrects without unpleasant side effects
It is, I think, the perfect drug — may I prescribe, my friend:
THE HUG!
(And, of course, fully returnable!)
~Henry Matthew Ward
HUGGING
Hugging is good medicine. It transfers energy,
and gives the person hugged an emotional boost.
We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day
for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth."
~Virginia Satir ...
and gives the person hugged an emotional boost.
We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day
for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth."
~Virginia Satir ...
Sunday, February 19, 2006
THINKING POSITIVE
Positive Thinking is benificial to all of us.
It affects how we act & how we deal with things.
It gives you a clearer head, better memory, it makes it easier to make decisions and able to deal with situations, but above all it gives you a better and clearer outlook on life and makes you able to see the good out of the bad.
If you see half a glass of water - do you see it as half empty or half full?
If you see it as half full, you are thinking positive - by thinking positive in all situations, you will find that you will feel happier and appreciate the good things in life.
http://positiveteens0.tripod.com/positivethinking/id15.html
It affects how we act & how we deal with things.
It gives you a clearer head, better memory, it makes it easier to make decisions and able to deal with situations, but above all it gives you a better and clearer outlook on life and makes you able to see the good out of the bad.
If you see half a glass of water - do you see it as half empty or half full?
If you see it as half full, you are thinking positive - by thinking positive in all situations, you will find that you will feel happier and appreciate the good things in life.
http://positiveteens0.tripod.com/positivethinking/id15.html
Friday, February 17, 2006
MEDICAL POINT OF VIEW
From a medical point of view, negative thinking :
1)supresses the immune system
2) raises the blood pressure
3) and creates a general level of stress and fatigue in the body.
In short, infections, cardiovascular irregularities, the degeneration of muscles, and the random growth of unwanted cells get more opportunity.
-Peter McWilliams
Thursday, February 09, 2006
The $20 dollar bill
Author Unknown, But Greatly Appreciated!
www.positivenews.net
A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked. "Who would like this $20 bill?"
Hands started going up. He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you - but first, let me do this."
He proceeded to crumple the 20 dollar note up. He then asked. "Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air.
"Well," he replied, "what if I do this?" He dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe.
He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. "Now, who still wants it?"
Still the hands went into the air.
"My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson.
No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20.
Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way.
We feel as though we are worthless; but no matter what happened
or what will happen, you will never lose your value.
Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to God and to those who love you.
The worth of our lives comes, not in what we do or who we know,
but by ...WHO WE ARE.
www.positivenews.net
A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked. "Who would like this $20 bill?"
Hands started going up. He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you - but first, let me do this."
He proceeded to crumple the 20 dollar note up. He then asked. "Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air.
"Well," he replied, "what if I do this?" He dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe.
He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. "Now, who still wants it?"
Still the hands went into the air.
"My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson.
No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20.
Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way.
We feel as though we are worthless; but no matter what happened
or what will happen, you will never lose your value.
Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to God and to those who love you.
The worth of our lives comes, not in what we do or who we know,
but by ...WHO WE ARE.
TAKE ACTION TODAY
By Chip Lowell
Once you've decided what you are going to focus on getting from your goals;
thought about what you'll receive as a result of achieving them;
thought about what will happen if you don't;
you need to begin taking action -- TODAY.
Some gurus say just start doing something.
Others say, before you begin, figure out exactly what you'll need to do to get there.
Then start.
Both ways work -- as long as you're willing to review your results daily along the way with short term goals, and weekly on long term goals.
During the review process, you'll see what's working and what's not -- and tweak your actions accordingly.
The bottom line is to take action, today, towards your goals.
Then take more action tomorrow. It's amazing how quickly you'll begin to see results!
Ask youself this question: "What can I do today that will move me closer to achieving my goal of _____ ?" Then guess what? Do it!
Contributed by NITYA
Once you've decided what you are going to focus on getting from your goals;
thought about what you'll receive as a result of achieving them;
thought about what will happen if you don't;
you need to begin taking action -- TODAY.
Some gurus say just start doing something.
Others say, before you begin, figure out exactly what you'll need to do to get there.
Then start.
Both ways work -- as long as you're willing to review your results daily along the way with short term goals, and weekly on long term goals.
During the review process, you'll see what's working and what's not -- and tweak your actions accordingly.
The bottom line is to take action, today, towards your goals.
Then take more action tomorrow. It's amazing how quickly you'll begin to see results!
Ask youself this question: "What can I do today that will move me closer to achieving my goal of _____ ?" Then guess what? Do it!
Contributed by NITYA
Monday, February 06, 2006
Those who love YOU
www.inspirationline.com
If anyone should hurt you and say a thing unkind,Remember what I tell you, and keep these things in mind;
For every 1 who makes you cry, there are 3 who make you smile,
That smile will last a long, long time, and the tear a LITTLE while!
If someone says a thing that's cruel, don't let it get to you —There's so much good about you, and your faults are very few;
Don't let someone who hates the world cause you to hate it too,
For behind the cloud's a golden sun and a sky that's bright and blue!
So if a certain someone should act a certain way ...Just think of THOSE WHO LOVE YOU and don't let it ruin your day
Contributed by NITYA (Special thanks to the guy who made me realise the words above)
Sunday, February 05, 2006
ATTITUDE DETERMINES ATTITUDE
I woke up early today, excited over all I get to do before the clock strikes midnight. I have responsibilities to fulfill today. I am important.
My job is to choose what kind of day I am going to have.
Today I can complain because the weather is rainy or I can be thankful that the grass is getting watered for free.
Today I can feel sad that I don't have more money or I can be glad that my finances encourage me to plan my purchases wisely and guide me away from waste.
Today I can grumble about my health or I can rejoice that I am alive.
Today I can lament over all that my parents didn't give me when I was growing up or I can feel grateful that they allowed me to be born.
Today I can cry because roses have thorns or I can celebrate that thorns have roses.
Today I can mourn my lack of friends or I can excitedly embark upon a quest to discover new relationships.
Today I can whine because I have to go to work or I can shout for joy because I have a job to do.
Today I can complain because I have to go to school or eagerly open my mind and fill it with rich new tidbits of knowledge.
Today I can murmur dejectedly because I have to do housework or I can feel honored because the Lord has provided shelter for my mind, body and soul.
Today stretches ahead of me, waiting to be shaped. And here I am, the sculptor who gets to do the shaping.
What today will be like is up to me. I get to choose what kind of day I will have!
Having a great attitude is not the result of having a great life; having a great life is the result of having a great attitude
www.motivational-messages.com
contributed by NITYA
My job is to choose what kind of day I am going to have.
Today I can complain because the weather is rainy or I can be thankful that the grass is getting watered for free.
Today I can feel sad that I don't have more money or I can be glad that my finances encourage me to plan my purchases wisely and guide me away from waste.
Today I can grumble about my health or I can rejoice that I am alive.
Today I can lament over all that my parents didn't give me when I was growing up or I can feel grateful that they allowed me to be born.
Today I can cry because roses have thorns or I can celebrate that thorns have roses.
Today I can mourn my lack of friends or I can excitedly embark upon a quest to discover new relationships.
Today I can whine because I have to go to work or I can shout for joy because I have a job to do.
Today I can complain because I have to go to school or eagerly open my mind and fill it with rich new tidbits of knowledge.
Today I can murmur dejectedly because I have to do housework or I can feel honored because the Lord has provided shelter for my mind, body and soul.
Today stretches ahead of me, waiting to be shaped. And here I am, the sculptor who gets to do the shaping.
What today will be like is up to me. I get to choose what kind of day I will have!
Having a great attitude is not the result of having a great life; having a great life is the result of having a great attitude
www.motivational-messages.com
contributed by NITYA
Sunday, January 01, 2006
12 Positive Starts and 12 Positive Stops for the New Year
from www.lucymacdonald.com
I like the idea of a new year and the opportunity to reflect on where I've been, where I am, and where I am headed.
Here's a list, in no particular order, of some positive things we can be doing to start off the new year.
I’ve also included some of the habits we need to drop.
12 Positive Starts:
- Start living with purpose.
- Start being passionate.
- Start taking risks.
- Start listening with an open mind.
- Start making your health a priority.
- Start laughing and playing.
- Start being good to yourself.
- Start doing work that you love.
- Start living your own life.
- Start learning new things.
- Start managing your money
- Start spending time with people who matter to you.
12 Positive Stops:
- Stop worrying.
- Stop making excuses.
- Stop doing work you hate.
- Stop wasting your time.
- Stop arguing.
- Stop trying to be right.
- Stop complaining.
- Stop making the same mistakes.
- Stop doubting yourself.
- Stop worrying about the opinions of others.
- Stop feeling sorry for yourself.
- Stop spending more money than you make.
Contributed by NITYA
POSITIVE THINKING
by Remez Sasson
The difference between can and cannot are only three letters. Three letters that determine your life's direction.Being positive or negative are habits of thoughts that have a very strong influence on life.
by Remez Sasson
The difference between can and cannot are only three letters. Three letters that determine your life's direction.Being positive or negative are habits of thoughts that have a very strong influence on life.
Positive and negative are directions. Which direction do you choose?Positive thinking is expecting, talking and visualizing with certainty what you want to achieve, as an accomplished fact.
Riches, mediocrity and poverty begin in the mind.Reality is the mirror of your thoughts. Choose well what you put in front of the mirror.
The mind is the decisive factor in your life, but who decides for the mind?A positive attitude brings strength, energy and initiative.To think negatively is like taking a weakening drug.Positive thoughts are not enough. There have to be positive feelings and positive actions.
When you say, "I can't" and expect the worst, you become weak and unhappy.When you say "I can", and expect success, you fill yourself with confidence and happiness.Being resolute, decisive and courageous in small matters and in big ones is being positive.
You can close the windows and darken your room, and you can open the windows and let light in. It is a matter of choice. Your mind is your room. Do you darken it or do you fill it with light?Positive thinking and negative thinking are attitudes. They are points of view, and show the way people handle their affairs.Suppose you stand at a crossroads, one way leads to a desert and the other one to lush meadows, which way do you choose?Clear thoughts produce produce clear results.
Positive thinking evokes more energy, more initative and more happiness.Train your mind to think in terms of 'possible' and 'can be done'.When you have control over your thoughts, you have control over your life.Happy thoughts attract happy people into your life.Happy thoughts fill your life with happiness.When you change your habitual thoughts, it is like changing the direction of a train.
Affirm the positive, visualize the positive and expect the positive, and your life will change accordingly.When there are difficulties and you feel down, this is the time to visualize, think and expect the positive.
Do not let circumstances influence your thoughts and moods. By rising over them mentally, you will eventually rise over them materially.Fill your mind with light, happiness, hope, feelings of security and strength, and soon your life will reflect these qualities.
Reading inspiring quotes uplifts the mind.
Repeating inspiring quotes during the day, helps to cope better with with every situation that arises.
The power of positive thinking is like a car with a powerful engine that can take you to the summit of a mountain.
Contributed by NITYA
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