What do you think?

Just found these great quotes on Steve Chandler's blog:

"You only lose energy when life becomes dull
in your mind. You don't have to be tired and bored.
Get interested in something. Throw yourself
into it with abandon."

Norman Vincent Peale
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"We are not troubled by things,
but by the opinion we have of things."

Epictetus
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"Start by doing what's necessary,
then what's possible, and suddenly
you are doing the impossible."

St. Francis
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"It's so hard when contemplated in advance,
and so easy when you do it."

Robert Pirsig
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"Shallow people believe in luck,
wise and strong people believe in cause and effect."

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"When there is no feeling of accomplishment,
children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline."

Joseph Whitney
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"Learn to use ten minutes intelligently.
It will pay you huge dividends."

William A. Irwin
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"You will never 'find' time for anything,
if you want time you must make it."

Charles Buxton
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"You have more to do than you can possibly do.
You just need to feel good about your choices."

David Allen
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"We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves strong,
the amount of work is the same."

Carlos Castaneda


Let me know what you think.......

Do You Feel Lucky?

Are you Lucky? Do you want to be? Peter Ragnar of Roaring Lion Publishing posted this great list of Lucky Personality Traits in his newsletter today.

• Having A Sense of Humor Lucky people don't take themselves too seriously. Humorous people see the world differently from non-humorous people, and they tend to have better luck precisely because of their different viewpoint. They don't allow trivial events to tense them up. Tension blinds us to opportunity. A sense of personal playfulness is a ticket to good fortune.
  
• Positive Expectation A feeling of optimism is a prerequisite for good fortune. I believe your outer world is the material manifestation of your inner world, a reflection of your honest internal expectations. Expectations form attitudes, which determine behaviors and thus choices. Right choices result in luck.
• The Attitude of Gratitude Gratitude is a way of sincerely saying "thank you" for your good fortune. As you look for the good things in life, you'll find them; as you find them, you'll realize you are blessed by them. Learning to say "thank you" is a way of attracting good luck.
• Generosity The most successful people I know are the most generous. Generosity is a major component of becoming lucky because helping other people get what they want is the premise upon which all success rests.
• A Relaxed Sense of Urgency There is an inner sense of eagerness that has a certain spontaneous quality. Lucky people have a hearty willingness and promptness to act on opportunity. Responding to an opportunity is called luck!
• Observant Naturally, before you can act, you must be able to see. If you are mentally asleep, you'll be blind to the countless opportunities passing you each day. Many people have stopped seeing, looking, or observing- they wait for someone else to point out opportunities to them. Of course, by then it's too late- some lucky observant soul has beaten them to the prize.
• Immune to Rejection The luckiest people I know are unaffected by the past and immune to rejection. There are always some disenfranchised souls who will be ready to rain on your parade, if you let them; fearful little creatures whose only joy in life is tearing others down and ripping up their dreams. All courageous and lucky souls must deal with the people in the dark who never venture beyond the fence of chance. They know that good fortune will smile as long as they go forward into the light of luminous possibilities.

What do you think? What could you work on today that would help you to develop or enhance these traits in yourself?

Opportunity

"If opportunity doesn't knock,
build a door."
~~Milton Berle

Martha Graham on Practice

Another great quote from Martha Graham;

"I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance buy practicing dancing, or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of ones being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some areas, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired."

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