Daily Inspirartional for 2011

 

20 Sep 2011

Robert Kiyosaki
Here is a great quote, “You become the people you spend the most time with. Choose your friends wisely.” – The Real Estate Guys (partners in The Summit@Sea)

14 Sep 2011

Think and Grow Rich
“Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.” – Wilfred Peterson

11 Sep 2011

Think and Grow Rich
“Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.” – Richard Bach

Anna Laura Brown
Long term success in business or with anything worth while only comes if you have a deep seeded why. Without one you will give up too easily.

Trisha Hall
Kindness is in everyone. Start it. Show it. Share it.

Jeff Dawson
A lot of people have gone farther than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.

10 Sep 2011

Susie Keehner

“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” — Zig Ziglar

Don Capon
~Unknown : “Believe in your dreams and they may come true; believe in yourself and they will come true.”

Think and Grow Rich
“You can’t talk your way out of what you’ve behaved yourself into.” – Stephen R. Covey

SUCCESS Magazine
“Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.” — Zig Ziglar

Jim Rohn
“When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.” — Jim Rohn

Think and Grow Rich
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” – John Wooden

Barbara Grinde
“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass…it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene.

Think and Grow Rich
“You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands – your own.” – Mark Victor Hansen

Jamie Brown Wingate
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.” ~ Steve Jobs

09 Sep 2011

Eileen Marie

‎’Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.’ ~~ Zig Ziglar

Don Capon

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. — Josh Billings

Barbara Grinde

‎”If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” — Albert Einstein

Think and Grow Rich

‎”You can’t base your life on other people’s expectations.” – Stevie Wonder

Debbie Dallas

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.” ~Corrie Ten Boom. (Thanks Julianne for posting 1st)~~Another along these lines are “Don’t let yesterday use up today”~Unknown…thoughts?

Think and Grow Rich

“Freedom’s enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.” – William Arthur Ward

Think and Grow Rich

“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.” – Arthur Golden

Think and Grow Rich

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Think and Grow Rich

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first” – Mark Twain

02 Sep 2011

Think and Grow Rich
“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be” – George Sheehan

Think and Grow Rich
“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” – Zig Ziglar

Lorri Klassen Ratzlaff
People are open minded to new things .. As long as they’re exactly like the old ones. ㋛ ㋛ ㋛ ㋛

Jamie Brown Wingate
Change your thoughts and you change your world. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Jim Rohn
“Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the successes.”

Barbara Grinde
“If you’re not having problems, you are missing an opportunity for growth.” — Anonymous

Mentor Darlene
Thank you Robert Shemin for sharing this today…He said: said: There are 3 things that can really damage you and your life.1. anger 2.jealousy 3.Not being able to forgive yourself and others.

Lorri Klassen Ratzlaff
“Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.” — Robert Orben, comedian

Jana Clinton
Coach’s book … Finish Strong “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go”

SUCCESS Magazine
“There are two great days in our lives: the day we are born and the day we discover why.” —John C. Maxwell

Think and Grow Rich
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race” – Calvin Coolidge

Darlene K Moore
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control. -Tom Landry

John C. Maxwell
It’s not what you tell your players that counts. It’s what they hear. -Coach Red Auerbach

Mentor Darlene
I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together. – George W. Bush

Think and Grow Rich
“When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up.” – Tom Krause

01 Sep 2011

Jedediah Bennett
Don’t close the book when bad things happen in your life, just turn the page and begin a new chapter!

Think and Grow Rich
“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” – Zig Ziglar

Sheryl Devereaux
Better to fight for something than live for nothing. ~ George S. Patton

Network Marketing Pro
When childish and insecure people act childish and insecure, try to not be surprised.

Think and Grow Rich
“Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.” – William Arthur Ward

Don Capon
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. – Helen Keller

Think and Grow Rich
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Author Tom Baker
The Smallest Caregiver

Our granddaughter Hannah had appointed herself Grandpa John’s helper. She was too young to understand the meaning of “caregiver,” but we all watched with astonishment as her heart led her to say and do things that brought comfort and hope.

We’d just returned home from an appointment with John’s orthopedic surgeon. Our daughter Cathy’s blue van pulled up to the curb, and moment…s later our vivacious, four-year-old granddaughter, Hannah, ran toward us.

“Hi!” she called out. “Grandpa, is your knee all better?”

“Not yet, Hannah. My doctor has to put me in the hospital. Then he’ll make my knee like new.”

Suddenly, John winced and moaned with pain. A look of compassion crossed Hannah’s face.

“Grandpa, take my hand, and your knee will feel better.”

John grinned for the first time all morning. “You know, I think you’re right, Hannah.”

Her sparkling blue eyes looked up at her granddad reassuringly as she placed her hand in his. The two of them headed for the house, her strawberry blond ponytail bouncing back and forth. Cathy and I both chuckled at the sight.

Once we were all in the house, Hannah followed me out to the kitchen and watched as I took an icepack out of the freezer. She’d seen me do this several times before.

“Grandma, can I put ice on Grandpa’s knee?”

“Of course, Hannah,” I replied. Her face glowed with anticipation as I handed her the icepack and paper towel.

Moments later I felt elated about the conversation I’d overheard.

“Grandpa, this will make your knee feel better. There, now can I sit on your good knee?”

I walked into the living room to find them snuggling closely together, happily reading a story.

Hannah pointed to a bike in the picture book and said, “Grandpa, if you do what the doctor tells you, you’ll be able to ride your bike again.”

“You know, I think you’re right, Hannah.”

Over the next three weeks, John had to endure the drudgery of preoperative tests.

During that time his anxiety level climbed. His hazel eyes, dulled by pain, lost their luster. Even his normally healthy bronze complexion turned a grayish color.

Finally, the day before surgery, John announced, “I just want this all behind me. Whatever it takes to feel normal again—bring on the surgery!” Even as he made this announcement, I heard an underscore of worry in his voice.

Later that afternoon, Hannah brought her coloring books over and sat down at the dining room table. “I’m going to color a picture,” she announced. “Grandpa, what’s your favorite color?”

“Red,” John replied. Once again I watched as the two of them energetically worked on Hannah’s art project.

“Grandpa,” she said, placing her prize picture in her grandpa’s lap, “I want you to have this picture so you won’t be afraid when you get your knee fixed.”

No one had ever mentioned Grandpa’s being afraid. Yet Hannah’s sensitive heart seemed to understand.

The night before John’s surgery, Hannah came to visit. “Grandpa, Mommy said I could come see you in the hospital.”

“Hannah, that makes me happy,” John replied as he hugged her.

Early the next morning on our drive to the hospital, I notice a remarkable change in John’s physical and emotional state of being. He looked peaceful and sounded confident. “Karen,” he said, laughing, “with my new knee you won’t be able to keep up with me.”

“I’m glad you’re so happy!”

“Thanks to my littlest angel, Hannah,” John exclaimed. “Her compassion and her childlike faith and trust have been a light shining on my doubt.”

I, too, felt confident. John entered the hospital smiling and making others smile. I was allowed to sit by his bedside until they took him into surgery.

A few hours later I sighed with relief as Dr. Jamison entered the waiting room and said, “John’s surgery went well. He’ll be in recovery for a while.”

The next day Hannah and Cathy came to visit. John, heavily medicated, slept unaware of their presence. My granddaughter’s eyes widened with curiosity as she looked at the IV and all the tubes hooked to her grandpa. With one hand on her hip and a little stuffed bunny under her other arm, she asked in bewilderment, “How am I supposed to get to Grandpa with all that stuff around him?”

“Grandma,” she finally said, “please put this bunny in bed with Grandpa. It’s my gift. I want him to know I was here.” Then she blew him a kiss. Placing a brownie ¬covered with splashes of colored candies in my hand, she whispered, “This is for Grandpa, too.”

The bunny snuggled almost protectively against John’s arm. Later he woke and immediately acknowledged the presence of his furry companion.

“Hannah’s been here.”

“Yes, your little angel has been here.”

“Karen, Hannah has been good medicine for this old grandpa.”

The day John came home, Hannah continued her role as nurse. “Grandpa, did you like your brownie?”

“What brownie?”

Hannah looked at me sternly.

“Your brownie is in the refrigerator,” I replied. A few minutes later I gave him his treat, smashed and stale. John ate it anyway.

“Best brownie I ever ate,” he announced. Hannah giggled.

Three years later, the bunny still has a place of honor in a basket next to John’s recliner. Daily the little brown bunny acts as a reminder of our granddaughter’s love. Hannah also maintains a place of honor . . . on her grandpa’s new knee.

Hannah may be the smallest caregiver, but it’s the heart that counts—and Hannah’s compassionate heart is huge. ~ By Karen Kosman
SUCCESS Magazine
“Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.” — Bruce Lee

Think and Grow Rich
“Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.” – Humphry Davy

31 Aug 2011

Think and Grow Rich
“Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.” – William Arthur Ward

Think and Grow Rich
“I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position.” – Charles R. Swindoll

Think and Grow Rich
“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” – Jim Rohn

Jamie Brown Wingate
“Don’t feel entitled to anything you didn’t sweat and struggle for.” ~ Marian Wright Edelman

Think and Grow Rich
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Think and Grow Rich
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I shall have the belief that I can do it. I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning.” – Mahatma Gandhi

Author Tom Baker
“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”  – Rabindranath Tagore

SUCCESS Magazine
“The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.” — Booker T. Washington

30 Aug 2011

Think and Grow Rich
“By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it” – Wallace D Wattles

Mentor Darlene
How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it. – Jim Valvano

Darlene K Moore
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. – Henry A. Kissinger

John C. Maxwell
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. -Dolly Parton

Think and Grow Rich
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell

Don Capon

Network Marketing Pro
“Every turn you fear is empty air dressed to look like jagged hell” – Richard Bach

Author Tom Baker
The Handyman
Once upon a time two brothers who lived on adjoining farms fell into conflict. It was the first serious rift in 40 years of farming side by side, sharing machinery, and trading labor and goods as needed without a conflict.

Then the long collaboration fell apart. It began with a small misunderstanding and it grew into a major difference, and finally it exploded into an exchange of bitt…er words followed by weeks of silence.

One morning there was a knock on John’s door. He opened it to find a man with a carpenter’s tool box. “I’m looking for a few days’ work,” he said. “Perhaps you would have a few small jobs here and there I could help with? Could I help you?”

“Yes,” said the older brother. “I do have a job for you. Look across the creek at that farm. That’s my neighbour, in fact, it’s my younger brother. Last week there was a meadow between us and he took his bulldozer to the river levee and now there is a creek between us. Well, he may have done this to spite me, but I’ll do him one better.

See that pile of lumber by the barn? I want you to build me a fence –an 8-foot fence –so I won’t need to see his place or his face anymore.”

The carpenter said, “I think I understand the situation”. Show me the nails and the post-hole digger and I’ll be able to do a job that pleases you.”

The older brother had to go to town, so he helped the carpenter get the materials ready and then he was off for the day. The carpenter worked hard all that day measuring, sawing, nailing.

About sunset when the farmer returned, the carpenter had just finished his job. The farmer’s eyes opened wide, his jaw dropped. There was no fence there at all. It was a bridge — a bridge stretching from one side of the creek to the other! A fine piece of work, handrails and all — and the neighbor, his younger brother, was coming toward them, his hand outstretched.

“You are quite a fellow to build this bridge after all I’ve said and done.” The two brothers stood at each end of the bridge, and then they met in the middle, taking each other’s hand. They turned to see the carpenter hoist his toolbox onto his shoulder.

“No, wait! Stay a few days. I’ve a lot of other projects for you,” said the older brother.

“I’d love to stay on,” the carpenter replied, “but, I have many more bridges to build”.
~ Author Unknown ~

Brian Tracy
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.

Network Marketing Pro
“If you think the problem is outside of you, that thought is the problem” – Stephen Covey

SUCCESS Magazine
“You will be amazed by how much more information your prospect will provide you if you just shut up and listen.”

Brittany Rose
The Girl You Just Called Fat? She Is Overdosing On Diet Pills.The Girl You Just Called Ugly? She Spends Hours Putting Makeup On Hoping People Will Like Her.The Boy You Just Tripped? He Is Abused Enough At Home. See That Man With The Ugly Scars? He Fought For Our Country. That Guy You Just Made Fun Of For Crying? His Mother Is Dying

Think and Grow Rich
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dustin Edelman
If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?  – John Wooden

Trisha Hall
The truth is that everyone’s gonna hurt you. You just have to find the ones worth suffering for. – Bob Marley

Think and Grow Rich
“Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.” – Jack Canfield

Trisha Hall
The man who treats his wife like a Princess is proof that he was raised by a Queen.

Expand your horizons by seeing and making connections from what appears as disjoint or unrelated things.

Michelle Anderson
If you can read this you have a strong mind:

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May I awake each day endowed with love, hope and joy for my life and those of other’s I may meet.

May I make a difference in the lives of those around me by leading the way.

May I see each and every challenge as the opportunity it really is.  It may be for growth and personal development or the chance to really make a difference.

May I have the courage to take the steps necessary to live my dreams, live my life to its fullest, morphing negatives to positives and truely making a difference.

May the path I leave behind show improvements for the better.

May I seek first to assist others because assisting other brings real joy and happiness that lasts.

May I have the ability to transform my negative thoughts to positive blessings in my life and in the lives of others.

May I always look first at how I am doing and make changes  I am only able to change myself.  Never  ever seek fault in others but always find the best they have and cherish it.

This is my daily quest to seek out those in need and to lighten their burdens.  Be a light in the darkness and truely be a force for good.

May others be able to follow my example.  For example is louder than words.  For others will never hear my words if my example is drowning them out.

Heather Madder
Today, I claim freedom of MIND. I suffer only when my MIND is unclear and then my emotions blindly follow. I am Clarity and Freedom!

29 Aug 2011

Maria Whitehead
“We are the only ones that can misuse or not take advantage of our creative imagination and we do so by neglect or just plain inaction. We can get too busy and keep our time and our minds busy with all kinds of things that really in the long run are unimportant.” – Tuula Rands

Think and Grow Rich
“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.- Watch your words, for they become actions.- Watch your actions, for they become habits.- Watch your habits, for they become character.- Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.” – unknown

Shannon Dolce
We are never prepared for the inevitable…no matter HOW inevitable it is.

Barbara Grinde
YOU ARE NOT YOUR ABUSE. The real you, underneath the layers of pain and false beliefs, is pure, eternal, and unlimited. The real you cannot be damaged or destroyed. My experience is that survivors are exceptionally resilient, strong, creative, intelligent people, even though you may not believe it now. We had to be or we wouldn’t have survived.-L.Finney

Jamie Brown Wingate
I would rather spend 100% of my time focused on THE team and helping them build rather than spinning wheels, sweating the small stuff and trying to micromanage, at the end of the day, we all OWN this… It’s our dream! Ignite your passion and stay focused!

Kay Pyron
I might not be someone’s first choice, but I’m a good choice. I may not be rich, but I’m valuable. I don’t pretend to be someone that I’m not because I’m good at being me. I might not be proud of some of the things I’ve done in the past, but I am proud of who I am today. I may not be perfect, but I don’t… need to be. I am loved for who I am! 🙂

Trisha Hall
“But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for.” Paulo Coelho

Trisha Hall
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. — Buddha

Mentor Darlene
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in WILL…

John C. Maxwell
Life is a grindstone, & whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he’s made of. -Josh Billings

Think and Grow Rich
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” – Marie Curie

Think and Grow Rich
“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.” – Dale Carnegie

SUCCESS Magazine
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” — Johann von Goethe

Think and Grow Rich
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” – Dr. Seuss

Think and Grow Rich
“Confidence: You Only Sell You” by Dr. Denis Waitley –

Think and Grow Rich
“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!” – Dr. Seuss

Think and Grow Rich
“Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.” – Thomas Paine

Think and Grow Rich
“Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.” – Karen Ravn

Think and Grow Rich
“Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.” – Henry David Thoreau

Prior to & including  August 27

Think and Grow Rich

Here is one from the Think and Grow Rich posting…
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be” – Marcel Pagnol

Think and Grow Rich
“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” – Mark Victor Hansen

SUCCESS Magazine
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” — Denis Waitley

Think and Grow Rich
“Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.” – Wilfred Peterson

Think and Grow Rich
“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott

Think and Grow Rich
“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” – Tom Krause

Don Capon
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Think and Grow Rich
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Rohn

Think and Grow Rich
“For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?” – James Allen

SUCCESS Magazine
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”— Winston Churchill

Think and Grow Rich
“What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.” – Eleanor Powell

SUCCESS Magazine
“Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped.” — John C. Maxwell

Think and Grow Rich
“Confidence… thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them, it cannot live.” – Franklin Roosevelt

Think and Grow Rich
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.” – Buddha