You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. ~ Paulo Coelho
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Each Dawn Brings New Opportunities
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Say Yes to Opportunity When it Knocks
A wise friend gave me a sage piece of advice. She said, “Ray, when an opportunity knocks on your door let it in. It probably won’t pass your way again.” Opportunity often knocks at the most inopportune times making it easy to turn away from it. I think it happens that way to test us to see how badly we want it. It wants us to put our energy and passion into the opportunity it is presenting to us. No half way in. It wants us to go all in. That can be intimidating. It’s why most turn away from it with the hope that they will seize it when everything is right. Mostly, things are never always right. It takes a leap of faith and courage to say yes to opportunity when it knocks. Here’s hoping you have an overloaded supply of both.
Fill Your Life With Joy
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. ~ Joseph Campbell
A Windy Day and Its Lesson
It’s windy today. I’m having a hard time keeping my ball cap on my head. I decided to take my ball cap off and walk head held high into the wind letting the wind blow through my hair. Forget the good hair day. LOL I like the feel of the wind. I picture it blowing all my cares and troubles away. I think many of our cares and worries can leave us as easily as the picture in my mind of the wind blowing them away. It depends on what I choose to focus on. If I want to clamp down on a worry,, what I’m doing is feeding the worry. In reality, a worry is something that focuses on what MIGHT happen. Not what has happened. When something happens, we can do something about it. It is time for action and not worry. See the difference? Here’s hoping the wind blows your cares and worries away.
They’re Trying to Catch You
There’s a reason the supermarket places the bakery near the entrance to the store. If you’re not hungry when you walk in the store, thirty seconds later your brain sends a message, “I’m really hungry, feed me.” It takes self discipline to walk past the bakery and forgo the samples they have waiting for you. Once you take a sample they got you. That’s how it is in life. There are lots of things grabbing for our attention. They fight and claw with each other over us. We are the prize. When we have a set of foundational values we are more ready to resist the temptations they toss at us. What are your foundational values in terms of spirituality, emotions, health, relationships, and family? If you can’t think of any, it may be a good time to reflect on what you value.
Choose Your Words Carefully
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. ~ Buddha
A Perfect to Start the Day
“Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.” — Roy T. Bennett
Be Sunny ~ A Poem by Wildie Thayer
Be Sunny
Wilde Thayer
Does the world seem void of beauty ?
Does your home with shade abound ?
Then this is your binding duty:
Be the brightest thing around.
The Gift of Gratitude
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~ Melody Beattie
