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2009
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What direction?
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. – Oliver Wendell Holmes That’s it. Don’t fret over all the things that are going…
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Confusion of goals…
Perfections of means and confusion of goals seem – in my opinion to – characterize our age. – Albert Einstein We think we know what we want and we also think we know how to get…
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A life of purpose…
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes. – Kenneth Hildebrand Your purpose, what is it? Let’s dissect further. You. Who are you? What’s your place in this Universe? Where…
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Don’t limit yourself…
When you make a choice, you mobilize vast human energies and resources which otherwise go untapped. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you…
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An infinite capacity…
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done. – Henry Ford Henry Ford knew that he wanted folks with enthusiasm and passion, folks…
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You are the masterpiece!
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. – John Ruskin You know what they say, do what you love and the money follows? Well so does a masterpiece! But did you ever…
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Flow with the river…
Vex not they spirit at the course of things; they heed not they vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life. – Marcus Aurelius We…
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You own your life…
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first. – Mark Twain How many times can you catch yourself blaming another or even…
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Afraid to look bad?
Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time. – Rene Auberjonois When we’re not sure of ourselves, we don’t act with that confidence…
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When will you be free?
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by domestic walls; Where words come out…
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Your destiny!
Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved. – William Jennings Bryan It’s your life and it’s…
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Create the future you would like…
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. – Alan Kay How much of your future do you think you can affect? The answer to that question will define your power over your…
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Face the fear in the moment!
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I…
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What’s the cost?
There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. – John F. Kennedy What’s the cost of your…
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How are you disabled?
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. – BF Skinner Society provides many benefits but it hobbles us more than we think. How are you conditioned by your…
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Love and Forgive…
The Father in heaven loves his children, and therefore should you learn to love one another; the Father in heaven forgives you your sins; therefore should you learn to forgive one…
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I AM, available…
I will speak to you if you listen. I will come to you if you will invite Me. I will show you then that I have always been there. All ways. – Neale Donald Walsch The creator, the…
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Life is good!
When such as I cast out remorse So great a sweetness flows into the breast We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blest. – William…
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How much can you handle?
I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much. – Mother Teresa How much can we handle? For some the flood of adversity is…
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Follow your bliss!
If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are…
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Be the person you want to be
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the “as if” technique. – William James Making yourself believe that you can do or achieve something is to win more than…
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Who do you trust?
The presence of fear is a sure sign that you are trusting in your own strength. – A Course in Miracles (ACIM) We all feel fear. Where does it come from? It arises from a reliance…
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Born to succeed!
Men are born to succeed, not to fail. – Henry David Thoreau You are already a success, just look around you, inside you, and at the life you’ve already created. Let your…
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Time to soar!
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. – Helen Keller How often do we detect a desire to go do something big or worthwhile, and how quickly do we shoot…
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The First Relationship
Your first relationship must be with yourself. – Neale Donald Walsch We must be peaceful first, we must be comfortable in our own skin first, we must know self first, before we…
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The Comfort Zone!
In the heating and air conditioning trade, the point on the thermostat in which neither heating nor cooling must operate – around 72 degrees – is called “The Comfort Zone.” It’s…
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Experience the sun!
If you want a place in the sun, you must leave the shade of the family tree. – Osage Saying We make subtle agreements with ourselves about everything in life, here are some…
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Discover what’s beyond…
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself. – Alan Alda…
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Security and opportunity…
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. – General Douglas Macarthur Ultimate security, of the spiritual kind, can be had. Material security just isn’t…
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Banish doubts…
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. – Shakespeare Once we get used to watching where our thoughts spring from next steps can…
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Take back your life
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. – Michael Pritchard Which is why we want to keep most fear at an arm’s length! The more negatives we develop, the more…
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Arise out of fear!
To him who is in fear, everything rustles. – Sophocles How many fears are you harboring in your life? How many of these fears are actually conscious ones? How many lie deeper…
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Live like a butterfly…
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. – Charles Dickens It comes back to the heart. Your heart first, then someone else’s…
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A unified self leads to happiness
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Gandhi True harmony can only come from a self that’s unified. Such a self is calm…
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Embrace fear…
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. – Bertrand Russell Fear is our constant nemesis. How…
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A mind open in wonder!
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. – Gerry Spence And that’s what all belief does, it closes our mind to something greater and richer. Don’t…
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Do you have the blues?
Nobody can teach you to sing the blues, you have to feel the blues. – Ernestine Anderson Well hopefully you don’t because Spring has sprung in the Pacific Northwest, the air…
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Quit now!
Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there. – David Zucker It’s not as much what others tell us but what we tell our own selves, without…
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A loving thought…
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. – George MacDonald Everyday…
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Where do we put our effort?
In the choice between changing one’s mind and proving there’s no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. – John Kenneth Galbraith We make our opinions a part of our very…