Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. 
                                                                                      -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

from the Daily Quado 1-20-07 newsletter

What mountain would you take on if you had no fear and no doubt, if you had complete belief in yourself and all of the help and love that is there for you, surrounding you in every moment?  If you had complete faith that you could reach the top of the mountain, which mountain would you climb? 

 

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Do it anyway

  Do it anyway

Achievement most often takes place under conditions that are less than ideal. Just because there is some problem or difficulty or shortcoming in your life at the moment, it does not prevent you from moving forward.

Focus not on what is missing or what is wrong. Focus on doing your very best within the circumstances as they are.

Seek not to find an excuse. Instead, do what you have chosen to do, create what you have chosen to create, live as you have chosen to live, no matter what.

If you wait until conditions are perfect, you'll spend most of your time waiting. You'll be far better off when you go ahead and put that time to effective and productive use.

There may be plenty of reasonable excuses for not moving forward. Go ahead and do it anyway.

Sure, it would be great if some things were a little different, yet the reality is that conditions are as they are. Do it anyway, for that is the way it will get done.

-- Ralph Marston

Ever Increasing Joy

  Ever Increasing Joy

     One of the most fascinating discoveries that I have made in my life is that no matter how much love you give to others or joy you share with them you still end up with more than you started with. It is a wonderful miracle that never stops amazing me. When I smile and wave at my neighbor across the road I send all of my joy with it. Yet, when I go back inside my house I find that I have even more joy warming my heart and soul than I did before. When I stop to share a few nice words with someone I meet I share my kindness with them as well. Later, however, I find that the kindness in me has grown greater rather than less. When I give my children a hug and tell them I love them I can actually feel the love flowing from my heart and soul to their's. Still, when I look inside myself afterwards I find that the love within me has increased once again.

     I still smile everyday at this wonderful miracle although it must drive the mathematicians crazy. I rejoice in this special law of giving that God has blessed our hearts and souls with. I thank God for the ever increasing joy, love, peace, happiness, goodness, and delight that flows back into my life whenever I share it with others. I hope too that one day the entire world realizes this glorious truth and lives it as well.

Norman Vincent Peale said, "Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself." Never stop giving your joy away then. Never stop sharing your love with the world. You will be amazed at just how much love you can bless others with. You will be delighted at just how much joy you can spread. And most of all you will be surprised at just how much more love and joy grows in your heart and soul when you do so.

 Joseph J. Mazzella

CLEANING HOUSE FOR 2007

CLEANING HOUSE FOR 2007

Last Week I threw out WORRYING,
It was getting old and in the way.
It kept me from being me,
I couldn't do things my way.

I threw out those inhibitions,
They were just crowding me out.
Made room for my New Growth,
Got rid of my old dreams and doubts.

I threw out a book on MY PAST
(didn't have time to read it anyway).
Replaced it with New Goals,
Started reading it today.

I threw out childhood toys
(remember how I treasured them so)?
Got me a NEW PHILOSOPHY too,
Threw out the one from long ago.

Bought in some new books too,
Called I CAN, I WILL, and I MUST.
Threw out I might, I think and I ought.
WOW, You should've seen the dust.

I ran across an OLD FRIEND,
Haven't seen him in a while.
I believe his name is GOD,
Yes, I really like His style.

He helped me to do some cleaning
And added some thing's Himself.
Like PRAYER, HOPE and FAITH,
Yes I placed them right on the shelf.

I picked up this special thing
And placed it at the front door.
I FOUND IT - its called PEACE.
Nothing gets me down anymore.

Yes, I've got my house looking nice.
Looks good around the place.
For things like Worry and Trouble
There just isn't any place.

It's good to do a little house cleaning,
Get rid of the old things on the shelf.
It sure makes things brighter,
Maybe you should TRY IT YOURSELF.

~Author Unknown~

quote by -Lou Holtz

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do.
But attitude determines how well you do it

Meet Your Team for 2007

 

Meet Your Team for 2007

 

Today, I would like you to meet the team that is going to support you in 2007.  I would like you to meet Love, Courage, Peace and Faith, to invite them in to be your lifetime companions.  To enter your life and abide there, within you, part of your being, ever a part of your thoughts and actions, an integral part of who you are.

 

Picture them now.  Great, white and glowing with power, a golden light encircling each one, a light that comes from within, so bright and powerful that fear and doubt cannot survive in their presence. 

 

You may picture them as powerful winged angels, strong and glowing.  You may picture them as knights, galloping in, silver armor flashing, swords ready to defeat the darkness.  You may picture them as great balls of golden energy.  Whatever form you wish them to take, they will take.  Whatever powers you feel they need to have to finally defeat the last bits of fear and doubt within you, you may give them.

 

See them before you.  Feel yourself open to their presence.  Invite them in now.

 

First open your heart, wide and wider.  Invite Love to enter and fill your heart completely.  Feel the glow, the warmth, as all the ice melts, as all the hardness softens, as the cracks and fissures mend.  Your heart is glowing with love.  It is nothing but love.  It is love completely.

 

Now open your heart even wider and allow Courage to take up residence alongside Love.  See what a wonderful team they make, Love and Courage, allowing you to take on anything and everything, confident and daring, yet still feeling safe and secure.

 

And now, open your mind and invite Faith to enter.  Invite the light of Faith to shine there so brightly, that doubt is instantly dissolved.  It cannot sustain in the bright glow of faith.  Your belief is absolute.  You believe in yourself and all that you can accomplish and you believe also in the help that is there for you.  Your mind is on your side, willing to support the actions that Love and Courage are now yearning for.  They are all working together as your team.

 

And now, open your center and let it fill with Peace, like a deep and endless pool of water.  This pool of Peace will allow you to come down and reach your personal truth, no matter what is happening, no matter what you are feeling or anyone else is saying.  It will allow you to make your decisions and choices freely, from a deep sense of knowing.

 

And now, for a moment, just glow within the presence of these four, Love, Courage, Faith and Peace, filling you from head to toe, lighting your life, giving you the absolute power to be the fullest and best expression of yourself that you could possibly be, shining with the glory that is you.

 

And now, feel how a fifth presence is forming.  It is Joy, for Joy is naturally formed wherever Love, Courage, Faith and Peace abide.  Joy cannot stay away when her friends are all present.  And Joy surrounds you now and is within you and without you, lifting your energies higher and higher.  

 

And now they are all with you:  your team for 2007.  How blessed you are!

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