Motivation for Your Week of February 22, 2010

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QUOTE of the WEEK:
"A man will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."
Robert Frost

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THOUGHT for YOUR WEEK:
Great Minds
By Catherine Pulsifer

We all have great minds. What makes a difference is whether or not we use the full capability of our mind.

As Washington Irving once said,  "Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."

Those who have a "purpose" are active in setting goals and constantly working towards them.

Those who simply "wish", have no specific goals for themselves; they just go day to day allowing someone else to set their direction. Wishing for something occupies the mind but leaves the bank empty.

Use your "great mind", and set goals to achieve your purpose. Wishing is just as ineffective as worrying — neither accomplishes anything. Next time you find yourself wishing for something, remind yourself that wishing won't move you forward, but setting goals and taking action will!

 

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QUOTES for YOUR WEEK:
While wishing and hoping makes you a dreamer, acting and doing makes you someone who can turn dreams into reality.
Nan S. Russell

If your wishes are turned into goals, then your wishes may come true!
Catherine Pulsifer

Wishing consumes as much energy as planning.
Author Unknown

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
Chinese Proverb

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
Earl Nightingale

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.
Kenneth Hildebrand

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Motivation for Your Week of February 15, 2010

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QUOTE of the WEEK:
"I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened."
 Yanni

 

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POEM for YOUR WEEK:
YESTERDAY IS GONE
Poet: Grant Ngobean

 

Live for today, hope for tomorrow
And forgot about yesterday...forgot
'I CAN'T ' for those are the words of a coward
And remember 'I WILL TRY' for those
Are the words of a potential winner?

 

The only way you can regret yesterday is
When you've never learnt anything from it 
And remember that what ever you worry about
It's in the past, there is nothing you can change or do about it,
Just accept to choose to see
Yesterday's problems as an opportunity to grow.

 

Worry is wasting today's time
Cluttering up tomorrow's opportunities
With yesterday's trouble.
How many times do we look back on?
An event and think, if only I had...
How many times do we do something that we wish hadn't done?
You can't change a past event,
Its yesterday, you can't change what has been done.

 

Do you call it regret, sorrow, repentance?
Do you think about what might have been?
Do you relieve an event the way it should have been?
Forget about regret and focus on today, not on yesterday.
Focus on what you can do, not what you didn't do.

 

The only thing to feel sorrow for
Is not living each day to the fullest,
The only thing to repent is to sincerely say I'm sorry!
Don't live your life regretting yesterday...
Live your life so tomorrow you won't regret today.
It doesn't matter what anyone thinks or say about you,
What really matters is what you think and say about your self...
Then what you do about it.

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QUOTES for YOUR WEEK:
"Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future."
 William de Witt Hyde

 

"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

 

"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness."
 George Sand

 

"Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is only good for wallowing in."
 Katherine Mansfield

 

"Never look back and regret, look back and smile at what you have learned."
 Michelle C. Ustaszeski

 

"Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good."
William O'Rourke

 

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Motivation for Your Week of February 8, 2010

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QUOTE of the WEEK:
"If you don't think every day is a great day try going without one."
Jim Evans

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POEM for YOUR WEEK:
The Park Bench
By Author Unknown

 

The park bench was deserted as I sat down to read
Beneath the long, straggly branches of an old willow tree.
Disillusioned by life with good reason to frown,
For the world was intent on dragging me down.
And if that weren't enough to ruin my day,
A young boy out of breath approached me, all tired from play.
He stood right before me with his head tilted down
And said with great excitement, "Look what I found!"

 

In his hand was a flower, and what a pitiful sight,
With its petals all worn - not enough rain, or too little light.
Wanting him to take his dead flower and go off to play,
I faked a smile and then shifted away.
But instead of retreating he sat next to my side
And placed the flower to his nose and declared with overacted surprise,
"It sure smells pretty and it's beautiful too.
That's why I picked it; here, it's for you."

 

The weed before me was dying or dead.
Not vibrant of colors: orange, yellow or red.
But I knew I must take it, or he might never leave.
So I reached for the flower, and replied, "Just what I need."
But instead of him placing the flower in my hand,
He held it mid-air without reason or plan.
It was then that I noticed for the first time
That weed-toting boy could not see he was blind.

 

I heard my voice quiver; tears shone in the sun
As I thanked him for picking the very best one.
"You're welcome," he smiled, and then ran off to play,
Unaware of the impact he'd had on my day.
I sat there and wondered how he managed to see
A self-pitying woman beneath an old willow tree.
How did he know of my self-indulged plight?
Perhaps from his heart, he'd been blessed with true sight.

 

Through the eyes of a blind child, at last I could see
The problem was not with the world; the problem was me.
And for all of those times I myself had been blind,
I vowed to see the beauty in life, and appreciate every second that's mine.
And then I held that wilted flower up to my nose
And breathed in the fragrance of a beautiful rose
And smiled as I watched that young boy, another weed in hand,
About to change the life of an unsuspecting old man.

 

 

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QUOTES for YOUR WEEK:
Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Author Unknown

 

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
Elbert Hubbard

 

Life holds so many simple blessings, each day bringing its own individual wonder.
John McLeod

 

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens

 

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
Denis Waitley

 

We are so often caught up in our destination that we forget to appreciate the journey, especially the goodness of the people we meet on the way. Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don't overlook it.
Author Unknown

 

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Motivation for Your Week of February 1, 2010

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 QUOTE of the WEEK:

"If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event,

then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system."

William James 

 

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THOUGHT for YOUR WEEK:

A Worrying Woman

By Orison Swett Marden

 

 "I'm awfully worried this morning, said one woman. What is it?" "Why, I thought of something to worry about last night, and now I can't remember it."

 

A famous actress once said: "Worry is the foe of all beauty." She might have added: "It is the foe to all health."

 

"It seems so heartless in me, if I do not worry about my children," said one mother.

 

Women nurse their troubles, as they do their babies. "Troubles grow larger," said Lady Holland, "by nursing."

 

 "He grieves," says Seneca, "more than is necessary, who grieves before it is necessary."

 

"My children," said a dying man, "during my long life I have had a great many troubles, most of which never happened." A prominent businessman in Philadelphia said that his father worried for twenty-five years over an anticipated misfortune, which never arrived.

 

We try to grasp too much of life at once; since we think of it as a whole, instead of living one day at a time. Life is a mosaic, and each tiny piece must be cut and set with skill, first one piece, then another.  It is not the troubles of today, but those of tomorrow and next week and next year, that whiten our heads, wrinkle our faces, and bring us to a standstill.

 

Nervous prostration is seldom the result of present trouble or work, but of work and trouble anticipated. Mental exhaustion comes to those who look ahead, and climb mountains before reaching them. Resolutely build a wall about today, and live within the enclosure. The past may have been hard, sad, or wrong, - but it is over.

 

Why not take a turn about?  Instead of worrying over unforeseen misfortune, set out with all your soul to rejoice in the unforeseen blessings of all your coming days. "I find the gayest castles in the air that were ever piled," says Emerson, "far better for comfort and for use than the dungeons in the air that are daily dug and cavern out by grumbling, discontented people."

 

What is this world but as you take it?  Thackeray calls the world a looking glass that gives back the reflection of one's own face. "Frown at it, and it will look sourly upon you; laugh at it, and it is a jolly companion."

 

  

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 QUOTES for YOUR WEEK:

"The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action."

Harold B. Walker

 

"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything."

Ernest Hemingway

 

"It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly."

Josh Billings

 

"Worrying about it takes precious time and attention away from your priorities and increases your feelings of dissatisfaction about life."

Christina Winsey-Rudd

 

 

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere."

Author Unknown

 

"Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained."

Arthur Somers Rache

 

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Motivation for Your Week of January 18, 2010

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QUOTE of the WEEK:
"Procrastination is the grave
 in which opportunity is buried."
Author Unknown

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POEM for YOUR WEEK:
Do It Now
Poet Unknown

If you've got a job to do,
Do it now!
If it's one you wish were through,
Do it now!
If you're sure the job's your own,
Do not hem and haw and groan-
Do it now!

It doesn't pay to shirk,
Do it now!
If you want to fill a place
And be useful to the race,
Just get up and take a brace-
Do it now!

Don't linger by the way,
Do it now!
You'll lost if you delay,
Do it now!
If the other fellows wait,
Or postpone until it's late,
You hit up a faster gait-
Do it now!

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QUOTES for YOUR WEEK:
"Begin while others are procrastinating.
Work while others are wishing."
William Arthur Ward

"Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count."
Dr. Robert Anthony

"Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible."
George H. Lorimer

"You don't have to see the whole staircase,
just take the first step."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy."
Denis Waitley

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Motivation for Your Week of January 11, 2010

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QUOTE of the WEEK:
"Smile - It makes a world of difference.
Dance - Who knows when you won't be able to.
Cry - Holding those emotions in is bad for you.
Hug - Helps you and helps another.
Laugh - What's the point in hiding happiness?
Live - because life is everything."
Author Unknown

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POEM for YOUR WEEK:
To Make This Life Worth While
Poet:  George Eliot

May every soul that touches mine—
Be it the slightest contact—
Get therefrom some good;

Some little grace; one kindly thought;
One aspiration yet unfelt;

One bit of courage
For the darkening sky;

One gleam of faith
To brave the thickening ills of life;

One glimpse of brighter skies
Beyond the gathering mists—

To make this life worthwhile

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QUOTES for YOUR WEEK:
"Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think."
Horace 

"Dance as though no one is watching you, love as though you have never been hurt before, sing as though no one can hear you, live as though heaven is on earth."
Souza

"You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are."
Les Brown

"There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Albert Einstein

"I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?"
Richard Bach

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Motivation for Your Week of January 4, 2010

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QUOTE of the WEEK:
"Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor."
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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POEM for YOUR WEEK:
A New Year
by William Arthur Ward

Another fresh new year is here
     Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
     To love and laugh and give!

This bright new year is given me
     To live each day with zest
To daily grow and try to be
     My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity
     Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
     And sing more joyful songs!

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QUOTES for YOUR WEEK:
If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.
Les Brown

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening - she makes one.
 Kirk Kirkpatrick

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demmosthenes

It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.
 George Matthew Adams

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Brian Tracy

You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success.
Og Mandino

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