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Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder. Henry David Thoreau

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For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Steve Jobs

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Your Inspiration For Today!
You like yourself better when you help others. But the astonishing thing is that you also tend to like others better. It is something of a gift when people allow you to help them. You appreciate the givers of this gift. When you help others, realize that they are giving you a gift, and welcome that gift.

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We often think of time as a powerful healer. But time doesn't change things. What changes is the way you look at the world, the way you choose to interact with it. Recognizing gives you amazing power. IF you can change yourself - and you can - you can change your relationship with the world. When you can be useful to others, rather than merely hoping that they will be useful to you, you are a better person because of it. What's more, you will be happier as well.

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Sometimes you have to step outside of the person you've been, and remember the person you were meant to be, the person you wanted to be, the person you are."

-- H.G. Wells,

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You are much more creative than you give yourself credit for. The problem is that you often suppress your ideas too quickly.: "That won't work" "Can't afford that." If you can have courage not to censor your ideas, you just might surprise and delight yourself. Go ahead and give it a try.   

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On your best days, you can't wait to get started. You have energy and enthusiasm, and you end the day, however long and hard, filled with satisfaction. The say seems to fly by in a happy blur. Even in the worst of circumstances, you can bring a positive perspective to your day and strive to be fully engaged in everything you do, even the little things...or especially the little things. 

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Your Inspiration For Today!
Learning to handle problems is like lifting weights: The more we do, the stronger we become. Remember that you have probably learned the most, during the most difficult times in your life. You are a stronger person as a result of those times. Remember that as you face your next challenge. 

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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."

-- George Washington Carver

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To heighten your sense of urgency, do a little mathematical calculation. Based on the statistics, the average man living in 21st century America will live to seventy-three years. The average woman will live to seventy-nine years. Based on your current age and these statistics, how many days do you have left to live? Keep this number in front of you as a reminder the clock is ticking and there is no time to lose.

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture! Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

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It Is a Challenge to Succeed

by Jim Rohn

It is a challenge to succeed. If it were not, I'm sure more people would be successful, but for every person who is enjoying the fruit from the tree of success, many more are examining the roots. They are trying to figure it all out. They are mystified and perplexed by what seems to be some strange, complex and elusive secret that must be found if ever success is to be enjoyed. While most people spend most of their lives struggling to earn a living, a much smaller number seem to have everything going their way. Instead of just earning a living, the smaller group is busily engaged in designing and enjoying a fortune. Everything just seems to work out for them—while the much larger group sits in awe at how life can be so unfair, complicated and unjust.

“I am a nice person,” the man says to himself. “How come this other guy is happy and prosperous, and I'm always struggling? I am a good husband, a good father and a good worker. How come nothing seems to work out for me? Life just isn't fair. I'm even smarter and willing to work harder than some of these other people who just seem to have everything going their way.” He says all this as he slumps into the sofa to watch another evening of television.

You see, you've got to be more than a good person and a good worker. You've got to become a good planner and a good dreamer. You've got to see the future finished in advance. You've got to put in the long hours and put up with the setbacks and the disappointments. You've got to learn to enjoy the process of disciplines and of putting yourself through the paces of doing the uncomfortable until it becomes comfortable. You've got to be prepared and willing to attack the challenges if you want the success—because challenges are part of success.

Now that may sound like a full menu of activities, but let me assure you that the process of going from average to fortune isn't really all that difficult. Thinking about it is the difficult part. Anticipating all the effort and the changes and the disciplines is far worse in the mind than in reality. I can promise you that the challenges you'll meet on the road to success are far less difficult to deal with than the struggles and the disappointments that come from being average. Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.

I’d like for you to discover what you want to do with your life. Why not make it an adventure in achievement? Why not discover what all you can do and what all you can have? Why not discover how many others you can help and in the process how that can help you?

Why not take the challenge to succeed?

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It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

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"Carpe diem! 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

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"You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind."

- Darwin P. Kingsley

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"The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."
~Robert G. Ingersoll

Gratitude!

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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected. Steve Jobs

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Your Inspiration For Today!
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
~David Brinkley

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Your Inspiration For Today!
"In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it."
~Victor Frankl