"Fortune and love befriend the bold." - Ovid

"Life is not measured by how many breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." - Anonymous

"Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks." - Phillips Brooks

"True friends are like jewels, precious and rare. False ones are like autumn leaves, found everywhere." - A favourite school teacher

"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success." - Henry Ford

"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something." - Henry Ford

"It has been my ovservation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste." - Henry Ford

"The best minds are not in government, if any were, business would steal them away." - Ronald Reagan

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." - Henry Ford

"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done." - Henry Ford

"Character is what you are in the dark." - D. L. Moody

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it." - Anonymous

"Motivation is the fuel necessary to keep the human engine running." - Zig Ziglar

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard

"People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else." - Anonymous

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." - Jim Rohn

"It's always too early to quit." - Norman Vincent Peale

"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision." - Hellen Keller

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." - H Keller

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." - Hellen Keller

"I cant do everything but still I can do something & because I cant do everything I will not refuse to do something that I can do" -H Keller

"My goal in life is to survive. Everything else is just a bonus." - The Lockhorns

"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was." - Richard Evans

"Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional." - Anonymous

"Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket." - Doug Horton

"Behold the turtle: He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out." - James Bryant Conant

One Red Paper Clip

What do you think is the value of One Red Paper Clip?

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

"Don't worry if your work is hard an your rewards are few. Remember the mighty oak was once a nut like you." - Anonymous

"What I am doing today is important because I am exchanging my life for it." - Anonymous

"When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn." - Anonymous

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to." - Kahlil Gibran

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either 4 the first or last time. Then ur time on earth will be filled with glory" - B Smith

"Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles." - Unknown

"Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall." - Larry Wilde

"This, the spirit of Christmas, that forever and ever endures. May it leave its richest blessing in the hearts of you and yours" - Anonymous

"Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas." - Dale Evans Rogers

"The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart." - Helen Keller

"The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other." - Burton Hillis

"You can do it if you believe you can." - Napoleon Hill

"Time is a master worker that heals the wounds of temporary defeat & equalizes the inequalities & rights the wrongs of the world" - N. Hill

"All you are or ever shall become is the result of the use to which you put your mind." - Napoleon Hill

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one." - James A. Froude

"Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." - Sydney Harris

"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Don't become conditioned by what you believe.

"He who has a WHY, can bear almost any HOW." - Frederick Nietzsche

Core values are PRINCIPLES, BEHAVIORS, and RELATIONSHIPS that matter most in your life.

"Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it." - M. Scott Peck

Bridge the gap between your daily activities and your core values. What you truly value always shows up in the things that you do.

"One of the measures of a manager is the ability to distinguish the important from the urgent." - R. Alec Mackenzie

We grow when we do things that matter most in our lives although we gravitate to things that are easy or trivial.

Planning activity is the act of bringing the future into the present.

"Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least." - Johann Goethe

The Power of Your Thoughts and Words

Hey Edward here,

Hope everyone is doing well.

I have been pondering the idea of thoughts and words lately and how they are key in the creation of your current and future reality.

Here goes...

There are two things that control the future of our lives...

Our THOUGHTS and WORDS that we speak to ourselves and others.

The most important Time in our Life is the Current Moment,

Not the Past

and Not the Future.

But our Past can Predict our Future if we do not Change in the Current Moment.

We only Know what we Know and Nothing More than that.

Therefore we can Only See in others What we Know of Ourselves...

We can Only Make Changes to What we Know and Believe about Ourselves and Cannot Change other People.

In order for You to not live the same life as the past we need to change what You Know about and Believe about Yourself.

To Live each moment in What You Want to Know and Believe about Yourself rather than how you Currently Feel about Yourself.

If you put Thoughts and Belief our your new Self and Life First, Wrapped up in the Faith that it will Happen, your Feelings will Start to Change to Keep up with it.

They will have NO Choice!

I Know that We are all Driven by some Kind of Feelings we have About our Current Circumstances, Situations and Thoughts about ourselves...

That is what makes this Concept that is so Simple to understand Hard to actually do.

That is Why Only about 3% of the People in the World have Achieved this level of true Success, Prosperity, and Abundance.

Despite the Current Circumstances and Situation we all have everything we need inside of us to achieve the success of the 3%ers.

You were Created that way.

We all were.

That is part of the Knowing and Believing about Yourself.

It all comes back to the Knowing and Believing about Yourself and believing that it is greater than your current Situation and Circumstances.

This is what I believe can get someone through this to another level of greatness in their life...

1. Seek God to understand the true greatness that you are created in and have faith that what he tells you is right.

2. Surround yourself with positive things that will re-program your mind to think differently about yourself.

Books, Videos, Music, Meditations, People etc.

3. Get out of your comfort zone and stretch yourself at least once per day.

Choose to change your thoughts and words in any situation where it relates to the life you know longer wish to live.

Start with at least one situation.

Know that what you think about and focus on will continue to show up in your life. That is a fundamental law that has existed forever.

4. Create a picture of the future life that you want to create, and visit it often, especially when you are feeling down.

So there you have it.

What do you think?

How have your Thoughts and Words influenced the creation of your life thus far?

How are you going to use these amazing and all powerful tools to create the life of your dreams in the future?

Look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Time management is merely the process of managing choices based on how we respond to situations.

When everything in our life is perfect, we are not growing.

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor" -Henry David Thoreau

"Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket." - Doug Horton

"The more time we spend... on planning... a project, the less time is required for it." - Edwin C. Bliss

Planning is the key to controlling your events. Take one percent of your day to plan and gain control over the other ninety-nine percent.

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can't change courage 2 change the things I can & wisdom 2 know the difference." R. Niebuhr

Inner Peace is having HARMONY, SERENITY, and BALANCE in my life achieved through the appropriate control of events.

Growth is experienced through our response to things that are out of our control.

"History will be kind to me, because I intend to write it." - Winston Churchill

Successful people are willing to do those things which unsuccessful people are not willing to do.

"Time is a continuum... in which events succeed one another from past through present to future." - Webster's Dictionary

"The wise do sooner what fools do later. There is only one way to see the light, and that's as quickly as possible..." - Baltazar Greecian

"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew." - Marshall McLuhan

"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there." - Bob Proctor

"Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds." - Anonymous

"If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can't buy." - Anonymous

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

"To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are." - Muhammad Ali

"Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all." - Malcolm Forbes

"Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other." - Dr. Maxwell Maltz

"Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket." - Doug Horton

"The best vision is insight." - Malcolm Forbes

"If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it." - Malcolm Forbes

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think." - Benjamin Disraeli

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." - Douglas Jerrould

"The simple step of writing down your ideal scene can lead you to discover the unfailing natural laws of manifestation." - Marc Allen

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle." - Erin Majors

"We do not stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing." - Anonymous

"It's kind of funny to do the impossible." - Walt Disney

"Hearing is one of the body's five senses. But listening is an art." - Frank Tyger

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him." - Sidney Greenberg

"You can run from your dreams in fear or run to your dreams with faith." - Tina Downey

"All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, but by rising above them." - Charles Caleb Colton

"Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor." - Chiang Kai-Shek

"Not what we give, but what we share. For the gift without the giver is bare." - James Russell Lowell

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - Philo

"Life is a constant Advent season: We are continually waiting to become, to discover, to complete, to fulfill." - Connections

"Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones." - Tim McCarver

"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out -- it's the grain of sand in your shoe." - Robert Service

"Hope, struggle, fear, expectation and fulfillment are all part of our Advent experience." - Connections

"The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by somebody weaker than you." - Buddha

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." - Mother Teresa

"The man or woman who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself." - Marjorie Holmes

"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every man is the architect of his own fortune." - Sallust

"The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love." - William Wordsworth

"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the more clearly we should see through it." - Jean Paul

"I am too blessed to be stressed!" - Anonymous

"The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you." - John E. Southard

"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it." - Stevie Wonder

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." - Og Mandino

"Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket." - Doug Horton

"To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another." - Katherine Paterson

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them" -John F Kennedy

"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." - Muhammad Ali

"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." - Mary Tyler Moore

"Flowers grow out of darker moments." - Corita Kent

"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly." - G. K. Chesterton

"Use what talent you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best." - Henry Van Dyke

“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.” – Seneca

"Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom." - General George Patton

"The trouble for most people is they don't decide to get wealthy, they just dream about it." - Michael Masterson

"You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour." - Jim Rohn

"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. THey may be beaten, but they may start a winning game." - Goethe

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one." - James A. Froude

"You can't move forward until you let go of where you are." - Anonymous

"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"What would you do today if you had a deep knowing that it was impossible to fail?" - Robin Sharma

"Your lives begin and end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley

"All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs." - Anthony Robins

"Leaders are ordinary people -- with extraordinary determination." - Anonymous

Stop Sweating the Small Stuff...

And it is all small stuff anyway.

Isn't it?

What do you think?

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving." -- Dale Carnegie

"The more you praise and celebrate life, the more there is in life to celebrate." - Oprah Winfrey

"Food is for common ground, a universal experience." - James Beard

"Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake." - William James

"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." - Peter Ferdinand Drucker

"Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and health to the bones." - Proverbs 16:24

"To respond is positive, to react is negative." - Zig Ziglar

"Accomplish something every day of your life." - Walter Annenberg

"Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits." - Charles J. Givens

"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley

"Success doesn't come to you, you go to it." - Marva Collins

"If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed." - David Viscott

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worried about one year ago today." - A. Rotarian

"People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference." - Luciano Pavarotti

"Until you make peace with who your are ... you'll never be content with what you have." - Doris Mortman

"When you go into court you are putting your fate in the hands of 12 people that weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty" - Norm Crosby

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent Van Gogh

"It's a curious thought, but it is only when u see people looking ridiculous that u realize just how much u love them." - Agatha Christie

"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fear." - Glenn Clark

"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley

"Everything you see happening is the consequence of that which you are." - Dr. David Hawkins

"The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person doing it." - Anonymous

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford

"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process." - John F. Kennedy

"Even God doesn't plan to judge a man till the end of his days, why should you and I?" - Anonymous

"There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me." - Thomas Jefferson

"Action makes more fortune than caution." - Luc De Clapiers

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln

"Character is who you are when no one is watching." - Anonymous

"Fearlessness is not the absence of fear.It's the mastery of fear.It's about getting up one more time than we fall down" -Arianna Huffington

"Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude." - E. James Rohn

"We have been so anxious to give our children what we didn't have that we have neglected to give them what we did have." - Anonymous Parent

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." --Albert Schweitzer

"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know." - William Saroyan

"We must not allow for other people's limited perceptions to define us." - Virginia Satir

"Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set on fire." - George Matthew Adams

"What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be." - Ellen Burstyn

"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley

"Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself." - Suzanne Somers

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." -William Arthur Ward

"Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it." - Jesse Owens

"You were born an original. Don't die a copy." - John Mason

"Catch a passion for helping others and a richer life will come back to you!" - William H. Danforth

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." - John Wooden

"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure—try to please everybody." - Herbert Bayard Swope

"Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself." - Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant

"When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature." - Sydney Smith

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." - John Wooden

"Sympathy is no substitute for action." - David Livingstone

"Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity." - Oprah Winfrey

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them." - Benjamin Jowett

"Life is mostly froth and bubble, but two things stand like stone, " - Princess Diana

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." - William Shedd

"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door." - Dr. Laura Schlessinger

"Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter." - Edward Abbey

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own." - Benjamin Disraeli

"Step by step. I can't think of any other way of accomplishing anything." - Michael Jordan

"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out." - Thomas B. Macaulay

"No pressure, no diamonds." - Mary Case

"When plans are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances fit in with them." - Sir William Osler

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain

"People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be." - Harvey MacKay

"All receive advice. Only the wise profit from it." - Syrus