Inspirations - Tuesday, December 31, 2019

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

May your cup overflow with health, wealth, wisdom, and compassion during 2020.  May it be your BEST year yet, until the next one.

Love,
Dianne & Henry

Inspirations - Monday, December 30, 2019

Never discourage anyone who makes continual progress, no matter how slow.

Unknown

Inspirations - Friday, December 27, 2019

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.

Unknown

Inspirations - Thursday, December 26, 2019

When we are open to new possibilities, we find them. Be open and skeptical of everything.

Todd Kashdan - Scientist-Public Speaker

Inspirations - Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Whatever you celebrate, make it GREAT!

Merry Christmas,Happy Holidays,
Happy New Year, Happy Hanukkah!

Inspirations - Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

Anthony J. D'Angelo - Author

Inspirations - Monday, December 23, 2019

Let your unique awesomeness and positive energy inspire confidence in others.

Unknown

Inspirations - Friday, December 20, 2019

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Jimmy Johnson - Former Football Coach

Inspirations - Thursday, December 19, 2019

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Dolly Parton - Singer

Inspirations - Wednesday, December 18, 2019

The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need tomorrow.

Robert Tew - Writer

Inspirations - Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.

Francesca Reigler - Artist

Inspirations - Monday, December 16, 2019

I got a fortune cookie that said, 'To remember is to understand.' I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.

Anna Quindlen - Author and Journalist

Inspirations - Friday, December 13, 2019

Whatever you do, make a difference. Earn the right to look back at something and say, 'I did that.'

Michael Josephson - Law Professor and Speaker

Inspirations - Thursday, December 12, 2019

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshipers.

William Cullen Bryan
American orator and politician

Inspirations - Wednesday, December 11, 2019

There's one sad truth in life I've found while journeying east and west. The only folks we really wound are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know. We please the fleeting guest. And deal full many a thoughtless blow to those who love us best.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1850-1919 - Author and Poet

Inspirations - Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

Jerry Rice - Football Player

Inspirations - Monday, December 9, 2019

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Denis Waitley - Speaker and Author

Inspirations - Friday, December 6, 2019

If you can get someone to laugh with you, they will be more willing to identify with you, listen to you. It parts the waters.

Robert Orben - Writer

Inspirations - Thursday, December 5, 2019

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Maxwell Maltz 1899-1975 - Author

Hump Day Message for Brenda Taylor

A big Thank You to our friend Brenda Taylor for sharing her weekly "Hump Day" message with us.

Good morning happy 'hump' day!  Hope all is well with you and those you love.  Thought for the week: "Judge your day not by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you sow!"  Blessings and Love to you....

Inspirations - Wednesday, December 4, 2019

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970
Author

Inspirations - Tuesday, December 3, 2019

From the PRAISE & POWER Series:
PRAISE - Happiness is not a goal but merely a way of life; if you perform your part God will fulfill his.
POWER - A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success. Don't place your mistakes on your head, their weight my crush you. Instead, place them under your feet and use them as a platform to view your horizons.

Grace & Peace
 
Julius L. Cartwright
https://transformationaldreamteam.blogspot.com/p/julius-cartwright.html

Inspirations - Monday, December 2, 2019

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so.

Marcia Wieder
Speaker and Author

Inspirations - Friday, November 29, 2019

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.

Nikola Tesla 1856-1943
Inventor of Alternating Current

Inspirations - Thursday, November 28, 2019

Whatever circumstances you find yourself in, you can be someone's blessing.  Wishing you safe and happy Thanksgiving.

Henry & Dianne Ford

Inspirations - Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we think others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

Sarah Ban Breathnach - Author

Inspirations - Tuesday, November 26, 2019

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Albert Einstein - 1879-1955 - Physicist

Inspirations - Monday, November, 2019

PRAISE
Each day is a gift.
Don't send it back and unopened. The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time through grace.

POWER
Your life is a theater for greatness and each day is a platform for mastery.

Positive thoughts all day.

Julius L. Cartwright

Inspirations - Friday, November 22, 2019

A Nation mourned, A Bigot cheered, A Question was asked

On the afternoon of November 22, 1963, a co-worker, hearing of the assassination of John F. Kennedy; a president, a husband, a father, a son, a war hero; paused her laughter just long enough to ask me; "Well, what are you people going to do now?"  I believe I have and will continue to answer her inappropriate question to the complete amazement and total dissatisfaction of those who share her ignorance and insensitivity; by working to build bridges, rather than walls. 

In each of our lives, there will appear people and circumstances that will offer to us the temptation to choose the low road; or the opportunity to choose the high road, the one less traveled.  Choose wisely; being proactive as opposed to reactive, so your legacy might be worthy of your inheritance.

Henry Ford
Author-Speaker-Consultant-Photographer
Publisher of VISIONS Newsletter
www.successisyou.org

Inspirations - Thursday, November 21, 2019

You've got to walk right into what you want and not look at what you don't want. Stay focused on the goal.

Calvin LeHew - Author

Brenda Taylor's Hump Day Message - 11-20-2019

Thank you to our friend Brenda Taylor for sharing her weekly "Hump Day" message:

Good afternoon and happy 'hump' day!  Hope all is well with you and those you love.  Thought for the week: "Don't try so hard to fit in where you were born to stand out!"  Blessings and Love to you....

Inspirations - Wednesday, November 20, 2019

We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.

Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924
Inspirational Writer

Inspirations - Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, 'I'll try again tomorrow.’

Mary Anne Radmacher
Author and Artist

Inspirations - Monday, November 18, 2019

Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined.

Richard Koch - Author

Just A Thought - Praise & Power - 11-17-2019

Just a Thought - Meditation

Just a Thought - Praise & Power

Inspirations - Friday, November 15, 2019

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

Prince, 1958-2016

Inspirations - Thursday, November 14, 2019

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie 1888-1955
Author and Speaker

Inspirations - Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.

Bruce Barton 1886-1967
Author, Advertising Executive, and Politician

Inspirations - Tuesday, November 12, 2019

It’s a strange secret, but there is no doubt, that we each become what we think most about.

Doc the Turtle, in The Adventures of Blue Ocean Bob – Into the Lead early chapter book (www.blueoceanbob.com)

Inspirations - Monday, November 11, 2019

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

Arthur Ashe
American professional tennis player

Inspirations - Friday, November 8, 2019

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie - Author

Inspirations - Thursday, November 7, 2019

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

Melody Beattie

Inspirations - Wednesday, November 6, 2019

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius – 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor

Inspirations - Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner "voted yesterday", so that you might vote today.

Henry Ford
Author-Speaker-Consultant-Publisher 

Inspirations - Monday, November 5, 2019

Care about what other people think – and you will always be their prisoner.

Lao Tzu – Philosopher and Writer

Inspirations - Friday, November 1, 2019

What you seek is seeking you.

Rumi – 1207-1273, Poet

Inspirations - Thursday, October 31, 2019

The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions.

Alan Cohen - Author

Inspirations - Wednesday, October 30, 2019

As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson – 1803-1882
Essayist, Lecturer, and Poet

Inspirations - Tuesday, October 29, 2019

People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.

Earl Nightingale – 1921-1989
Writer and Radio Personality

Inspirations - Monday, October 28, 2019

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. - Author