TRUST

AUTHENTICITY

"Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever." --Nancy Lopez

"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others." --Confucius

If we truly believe in our "authentic" self, then we have no "need" to seek validation from others.  We have known, all along, what is true and good within us.

Authentic: true to one's own personality, spirit, or character; genuine.

Am I leading an "Authentic" life? Being true to my OWN personality? spirit? character? Am I being "genuine?"

GOALS

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things." --Albert Einstein

"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in whch we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act.  There is no other route to success." --Steve A. Brennan

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for. " --John Lubbock

"Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." --Les Brown

"Goals help you channel your energy into action." --Les Brown

ATTITUDE

Your Attitude + Your Choices = Your Life

New Week + A Great Attitude = Unlimited Opportunity

"There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate." --Robert Brault

"Happiness is an attitude.  We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong.  The amount of work is the same." --Francesca Reigler

"Make your optimism come true." --Unknown

"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains." --Anne Frank

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes." --William James

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes." --Charles Swindoll

COURAGE

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want." --Lao Tzu

"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." --Lao Tzu

I'd rephrase that with: Experiencing the best that life has to offer, begins with one small step.

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." --Ambrose Redmoon

"Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears." --Arthur Koestler

"Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway." --Susan Jeffers

‎"You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you are doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle." --George Lucas

PROMISES

WONDER

LETTING GO

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” –Lao Tzu

"Giving up doesn't always mean you're weak; sometimes it means you're strong enough to let go." --Unknown

"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run." --Abraham Lincoln

“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

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” —Herman Hesse

"The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go." --Friedrich Nietzsche

“One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.” –Michael Cibenko


"Change is never easy, you fight to hold on, and you fight to let go.” --The Wonder Years


“There’s no need to miss someone from your past- There’s a reason they didn’t make it to your future” –Unknown


“Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.” – Anonymous


“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” –Dr. Seuss


"Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars.  You have to let go at some point in order to move forward." --Unknown.

"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." --M. Scott Peck

FRIENDSHIP

"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you." --A. Milne

“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

"There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
...We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best."
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend." --Robert Brault

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." --Albert Camus

"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart." --Elizabeth Foley

 



"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better. " --Randy Pausch

“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. i'll always be with you.” --Winnie the Pooh

“If there ever comes a day when we can't be together keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever” --Winnie the Pooh

“You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends.” --Unknown

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart." --Eleanor Roosevelt

CHALLENGES

“Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” --Joshua J. Marine

"I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk." --Tony Robbins

"We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature." --Robert Louis Stevenson

CAPABLE

"We judge ourselves by what we feel we are capable of doing. Others judge us by what we have already done." --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"I asked for Strength and was given difficulties to make me strong, I asked for Wisdom and was given problems to solve, I asked for Prosperity and was given brain and brawn to work, I asked for Courage and was given obstacles to overcome, I asked for Love and was given troubled people to help, I asked for Favors and was given opportunties. I received nothing I wanted but received everything I needed." --Unknown

"What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are." --Tony Robbins

NAMASTE

Namaste....I salute the Divine within you, I salute what you do best. I salute your natural gifts. I honor your uniqueness and your specialness.


I just love that definition.....Namaste!

SUCCESS

"Success:  To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.  This is to have succeeded!"  --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

--Winston Churchill

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." --Theodore Roosevelt.

"There are countless ways of attaining greatness. But any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity."-- Buck Rodgers, IBM

"I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship.  I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.  --George Bernard Shaw

"Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity. Successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results." --William James



Are we really "finished" when we have "succeeded?"

SPIRITUALITY

"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises." --Leo Buscaglia

INTENTION

"Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreicate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as this is all there is.” --Mary Ann Radmacher

"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act." --Dr. George Crane

"The smallest good deed is better than the best intention." John Wooden

“Some men seem to attract success, power, wealth, attainment, with very little conscious effort; others conquer with great difficulty; still others fail altogether to reach their ambitions, desires, and ideals.  Why is this so? Why should some men realize their ambitions easily, others with difficulty, and still others not at all? This cause cannot be physical, or else the most perfect men, physically, would be the most successful.  The difference, therefore, must be mental – must be in the mind; hence mind must be the creative force, must constitute the sole difference between men.  It is mind, therefore, which overcomes environment and every other obstacle in the path of men.”  – Charles F. Haanel

EXCELLENCE

"Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.” --Rick Pitino

"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful." --Marie Curie

"To compare is not to improve." --unknown.


"Do not compare your life to others, you have no idea what their journey is all about." --unknown.


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

If you strive for excellence and achieve YOUR BEST, it matters not what the other person does or doesn't do.


"Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable." --John Wooden

ONENESS

If we are ALL "ONE" why do we continue to find ways to separate ourselves from each other.  black, white, jew, christian, leftie, rightie, blond, brunette.  Aren't we all "human?"


"All people are a single nation." --Qur'an

DREAM

"Man alone has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man alone can dream and make his dreams come true." --Napolean Hill.

"If you can dream it, you can do it." --Walt Disney

"You see things and you say, "'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'"  --George Bernard Shaw



"Keep your dreams alive.  Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication.  Remember all things are possible for those who believe."  --Gail Devers.

"Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined." --Henry David Thoreau

"So many of our dreams at first seems impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable." -- Christopher Reeve



"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." --Harriet Tubman

NEVER GIVE UP!



"If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit." --Bill Clinton

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail" --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen."  --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

IMAGINATION

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create." --Albert Einstein

‎"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” --George Bernard Shaw

"All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth." --Napoleon Hill

KINDNESS

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty


Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he/she sees all day.


It's a Wonderful Life...do you let the people who touch your life in positive ways know?


Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.- Leo Buscaglia


Why do we have such ease with giving criticism or passing judgment but such difficulty with giving praise?


"When we wish and seek to help others, our attitude is more positive and relationships become easier. We are less afraid and have less anxiety. Otherwise we remain shy and hesitant, and feel the need to take a thousand precautions before we approach people. When our intentions are good, we have greater self-confidence and are stronger. This is how we learn to understand how precious and valuable kindness is."  --Dalai Lama


"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being."  --Goethe

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

The New ABCs

ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS
BELIEVE ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE
CELBRATE THE MOMENT
DREAM OFTEN
EMBRACE DIVERSITY
FIND SERENTIY
GIVE UNCONDITIONALLY
HONOR HUMANITY
INSPIRE INTEGRITY
JOURNEY THE WORLD
KNOW TRUTH
LAUGH OFTEN
MAKE LOVE
NURTURE WISDOM
OFFER UNDERSTANDING
PLAY FOR FUN
QUESTION EVERYTHING
REACH FOR THE STARS
SPEAK SOFTLY
TRUST YOURSELF
UNDERTAKE A CHALLENGE
VISUALIZE PEACE
WAKEN CURIOSITY
XXXOOO
YEARN FOR PROGRESS
ZEALOUSLY LIVE LIFE!

THOUGHTS

"Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny."
--Gandhi

Our beliefs create our thoughts. Our thoughts create our actions. What are your beliefs? Do they foster growth? positivity? health? strength? Do they foster a life filled with joy and happiness? Do they help others? The beliefs you create, support and maintain and the thoughts that ensue will either strengthen you and the world around you or diminish you and those around you. Choose the positive!

"You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control." — Elizabeth Gilbert

"Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true." --Napoleon Hill

‎"Tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others." ---Jane Roberts

"Watch your thoughts; they become words.
 Watch your words; they become actions.
 Watch your actions; they become habits.
 Watch your habits; they become character.
 Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." --Lao-Tze

"Don't take anything personally. Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves." --Don Miguel Ruiz