NOTE: What are the limits you are placing on yourself? How do the limits you are placing on yourself keep you from making your dream reality? Is time to let go of self-imposed limits and claim your dream? This is the time. No limits. Never quit.
NOTE: Nature teaches us great lessons. One of the lessons nature teaches us is that everything changes. The large live oak in my yard goes through the change process each year. In march, it sheds its leaves. No sooner are the leaves shed when the new buds appear and within a week or two the giant live oak is covered with fresh green leaves. Change happens. It’s the same with each of us. We change. When we adapt to change and the changing circumstances in our lives, we grow into something new. Don’t resist the moments of change, embrace them and take on the new.
“Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.”
NOTE: Some years back I was having trouble making a decision when a wise old friend pulled me aside and said, “Ray, wish in one hand and poop (his language was much more colorful) in the other. See which you get first.” His folk wisdom stuck with me. Kafka was right, paths are made by walking.
“Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you can’t change.” ~ Drake
NOTE: Spend your emotional and physical energy on those things that bring joy, love, and happiness to you and those you love. Don’t waste a second on fretting over what you can’t change or being yanked into someone else’s chaotic ride.
“Never save the best for later. You don’t know what tomorrow holds.” Paulo Coelho
NOTE: No one is guaranteed the next moment. It’s a good reason to give it all we’ve got all the time. If we do, we’ll know we put everything on the table every moment. We’ll have lived a well-fulfilled life.
“Joy is strength- Joy is love – Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. She gives most who gives with Joy.” Mother Teresa
Note: Fill your tank with joy and you’ll light the way for all who come your way. You’ll turn naysayers into optimists and those who are sad will be dancing and singing all because you passed their way.
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” ~ Desmond Tutu
Evil appears to have its moments, but it is an illusion. Good always triumphs. It may not happen as quickly as I want it to, but in the end it triumphs over evil. Keep your eyes looking ahead. Hang on to hope. It will pull you through the darkness into the light.
“Where you stand determines what you see and what you do not see; it determines also the angle you see it from;
a change in where you stand changes everything.” ~ Steve de Shazer
Many of our disagreements arise from what we see. We believe what we see to be all one can see. When we shift our line of sight/perspective, we see something much different from what we originally saw. If we have the courage to investigate this new perspective it may change our perception.
