No Excuses

Your life is a matter of choice... you have the power to choose to take action.

It's not what people say or do to you... it's your self-talk that determines how you feel. It's not about them, it's about you.  You have the power to create the life you have always wanted. Choose to listen to yourself, not others! 

Believe in yourself

Words are powerful...be VERY careful what you allow to sink in to your own mental factory and be equally as careful when speaking to others, especially those you care about. Words can destroy just as easily as they can build up.

You can't score a goal sitting on the sidelines

After his first audition, a casting director told actor Sidney Poitier, “Why don’t you stop wasting people’s time and go out and become a dishwasher or something?” It was at that moment, recalls Poitier, that he decided to devote his life to acting. He wasn’t going to let someone else decide his life path.

“There’s nothing in the middle of the road, but yellow stripes and dead armadillo,” says Jim Hightower. Decide to do something now to make your life better. The choice is yours.

“My decision is maybe—and that’s final.” Is this you? Being decisive is essential for a successful life. If you deny yourself commitment, what will you do with your life? Every accomplishment, great or small, starts with a decision.

David Ambrose remarked, “If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don’t, you have achieved half your failure.”

The moment you definitely commit yourself, change begins. All sorts of things happen to help you that never would have otherwise occurred. Kenneth Blanchard observed, “There is a difference between interests and commitment. When you are interested in doing something, you only do it when it is convenient. When you are committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.” Lack of decisiveness has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.

Indecision often gives an advantage to the other person because they did their thinking beforehand. Helen Keller said, “Science may have found a cure for most evil; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all—the apathy of human beings.” Don’t leave a decision for tomorrow that needs to be made today.

Remember, don’t be a “middle-of-the-roader” because the middle of the road is the worst place to try to go forward. You can do everything you ought to do once you make a decision. Today, decide on your dream.

If we could see inside people's hearts - wow

Here is a profound look at life, in 4 minutes. This one will have you welling up with tears…

The camera wanders and shows the inner lives of people around us as they do their daily tasks. Most of it is set in a hospital, where there is so much worry, sadness, some joy, bad news, good news, no news, anxiety, fear -- just like our own lives...

Magnified.

We’ve all been there. We've all experienced at least one of these people’s lives, and that's what brings the message of this video so close to home.

We ALL have our stories. Others have theirs.  But we never really know, we don't fully connect, because most of us walk around keeping most of our thoughts and feelings to ourselves.

Still...

If we could see inside other peoples' hearts, this is what we'd see...

 

Saturate your mind

Oil for your lamp

Mother Teresa said, “To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”

“I believe women are a lot like lamps…we need to refill and recharge once in a while to be at our best.” —Lisa Hammond and BJ Gallagher

Take a deep cleansing breath and give yourself three minutes to relax with this short inspirational movie.

Don’t forget to share it with your friends and family. They will be glad you did.

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