Personal Development

Easy Lesson One

3/25/2022

Picture of an instructor holding a computer tablet and using a pointer to emphasize the words, ‘Never stop learning, trust yourself, always give 100%, all things are possible, yes I can, yes I will, forgive yourself, think positive, take care of yourself, know your friends, know your enemies.’

Easy Lesson One is shown above . . .

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Me

3/24/2022

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Picture of a person looking in a mirror.

Me

I am strong.
I am confident.
I am happy.
I am amazing.
I am great.
I am healthy.
I am unique.
I am special.
I am gifted.
I am loved.
I am loveable.
I am joyous.
I am fabulous.
I am wonderful.
I am me.

by Author Unknown

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How to Make and Keep Friends

1/15/2022

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Picture of a stuffed toy teddy bear holding a cardboard sign with the words, ‘Looking For A Friend.’

“Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.” -Walter Anderson (born 1944): “The Confidence Course” (1997)

“Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you’ve met and you’re like, ‘Yep, I like this one,’ and you just do stuff with them.” -Bill Murray (William James ‘Bill’ Murray (born 1950))

“Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.” -Madame de Tencin

“You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.” -Charles A. Allen

“If you want to make friends, go out of your way to do things for other people - things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness.” -Lawrence G. Lovasik (Lawrence George Lovasik (1913 - 1986))

“If you have a great friend, take the time to let them know that they’re great.” -Author Unknown

“It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not.” -Mignon McLaughlin (1913 - 1983)

“There is a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.” -Rebecca West

“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” -Francesco Guicciardini (1483 - 1540): “Ricordi”

“It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.” -Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873 - 1954)): “The Pure and the Impure” (1933), chapter 9

“A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.” -Pam Brown (born 1928)

“Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.” -William Glasser (1925 - 2013)

“No matter how good a friend is, they’re going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.” -Author Unknown

“The first general rule for friendship is to be a friend, to be open, natural, interested; the second rule is to take time for friendship. Friendship, after all, is what life is finally about. Everything material and professional exists in the end for persons.” -Nels F. Ferré (Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferré (1908 - 1971))

“Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship.” -Thomas Wilson

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years of trying to get other people interested in you.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))

“Be friendly and you will never want for friends.” -Author Unknown

“How can you be a good friend to your friends? Just ask yourself daily what you would like to have in a good friend, and then do and become those things yourself.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.” -Author Unknown

“Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.” -Frederick W. Faber (Frederick William Faber (1814 - 1863))

Suppose someone came to you and said, “I do not go out because I have no friends, and I have no friends because I do not go out.” What would you say to the person?

“For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.” -Author Unknown: proverb

“Don’t expect your friend to be a perfect person. But, help your friend to become a perfect person. That’s true friendship.” -Teresa of Calcutta (also known as Mother Teresa (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (1910 - 1997)))

“When our friends are present, we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.” -Epictetus (C.E. 55 - C.E. 135)

“Friends aren’t jumper cables. You don’t throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies.” -Charlie Krueger

“The time to make friends is before you need them.” -Author Unknown

“Two people cannot remain friends for long if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.” -Jean de La Bruyère (1645 - 1696)

“Sow the seeds of kindness, and reap a bounty of friends.” -Author Unknown

“Be careful of the friends you choose, for you will become like them.” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002))

“Friendship consists of forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.” -Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)

“Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.” -George Washington (1732 - 1799)

“There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.” -William Penn (1644 - 1718)

“A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

“Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.” -William Feather (William Arthur Feather (1889 - 1981))

“We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.” -Aristotle (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.)

“Love your friend with his fault.” -Author Unknown

“Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years’ steady sifting, some of them will turn into friends.” -John Hay

“Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.” -Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854 - 1921)

“Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experiences helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.” -Jean-Henri Fabre

“The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the others’ dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.” -Cyril Connolly (Cyril Vernon Connolly (1903 - 1974))

“In order to have friends, you must first be one.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882): “Essays,” First Series (1841), ‘Friendship’

“Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior (1809 - 1894): “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table” (1858)

“Promises may get friends, but performance keeps them.” -Author Unknown

“When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick, - no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

“Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.” -Chilo

“The question was once put to him, how we ought to behave to our friends; and the answer he gave was, ‘As we should wish our friends to behave to us.’” -Diogenes Laërtius (lived about C.E. 3rd century): “The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers” (about C.E. 200), ‘Book 5: the Peripatetics,’ ‘Aristotle,’ 9

“Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.” -E. W. Howe (Edgar Watson ‘Ed’ Howe (1854 - 1937))

“Do not have evil-doers for friends; do not have low people for friends; have virtuous people for thy friends; have for thy friends the best of men.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Dhammapada” (300 B.C.E.)

“Those who seek faultless friends will remain friendless.” -Author Unknown

“Don’t wait for people to be friendly, show them how.” -Author Unknown

“If friendship is to transpire between two people, it is important that both be in a state of availability. I have often been in the company of those who complain that they have no friends. Inevitably, I have observed that this condition was due to their own lack of availability; they were too encumbered to be able to welcome another. Such unavailability may be exterior in nature; that is, people may lack the time or the emotional energy necessary for friendship.” -Ignace Lepp

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well-tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation*.” -George Washington (1732 - 1799): as quoted in Jared Sparks, editor: “The Writings of George Washington” (12 volumes, 1833 - 1837), volume 8
*appellation: name or title; also, designation

“We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.” -Author Unknown

“Purchase not friends with gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.” -Thomas Fuller

“Friendships begin with liking or gratitude.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880))

“Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944)): “The Little Prince” (1943)

“Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880))

“Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.” -Baltasar Gracián (Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601 - 1658))

“You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.” -Woodrow Wilson (Thomas Woodrow ‘Woodrow’ Wilson (1856 - 1924))

“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.” -Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855)

“To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him - two.” -Norman Douglas (1868 - 1952): “Almanac” (1941)

“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1929 - 2012)): as quoted in Deborah Norville: “The Power of Respect: Benefit from the Most Forgotten Element of Success” (2009), page 65

“The recipe of friendship: 1 cup of sharing, 2 cups of caring, 1 cup of forgiveness and hugs and tenderness. Mix all these together to make friends forever.” -Author Unknown

“The secret to friendship is being a good listener.” -Author Unknown

“Blessed is the man who has the gift of making friends; for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of one’s own self, and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.” -Thomas Hughes

“Develop the art of friendliness. One can experience a variety of emotions staying home and reading or watching television; one will be alive but hardly living. Most of the meaningful aspects of life are closely associated with people. Even the dictionary definition of life involves people.” -William L. Abbott

“Do not let your desire to win an argument ruin a friendship.” -Author Unknown

“The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another’s little lapses.” -David Storey (David Malcolm Storey (1933 - 2017))

“If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))

“Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find one good, you must a hundred try.” -Claude Mermet (1550 - 1620)

“When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.” -E. W. Howe (Edgar Watson ‘Ed’ Howe (1853 - 1937))

Go oft to the house of thy friend,
For weeds choke the unused path.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

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How to Overcome Fears and Be Courageous

12/7/2021

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Picture of a man who is scared of his own shadow.

“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” -Georgia O’Keeffe (Georgia Totto O’Keeffe (1887 - 1986))

“When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all.” -Les Brown (Leslie Calvin ‘Les’ Brown (born 1945))

“Saw a little girl touch a big bug and shout, “I conquered my fear! Yes!” and calmly walk away. I was inspired.” -Nathan Fillion

“Find out what you are afraid of, face it, then you won’t be afraid of it anymore.” -Author Unknown

“Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and focus on what could go right.” -Author Unknown

“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.” -Eleanor Roosevelt (Anna Eleanor ‘Eleanor’ Roosevelt (1884 - 1962))

“We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.” -Susan Jeffers (Susan Jane Jeffers (1938 - 2012)) at www.SusanJeffers.com

“You have to do what you dream of doing even while you’re afraid.” -Arianna Huffington

“Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.” -Zora Neale Hurston (1891 - 1960)

“Fears are educated into us and can, if we wish, be educated out.” -Karl A. Menninger (Karl Augustus Menninger (1893 - 1990))

“We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.” -Will Faulkner (William Cuthbert ‘Will’ Faulkner (1897 - 1962))

“I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change . . . I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back.” -Erica Jong

“The only way to conquer fear is to keep doing the thing you fear to do.” -Author Unknown

“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 (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))

“Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” -Mary Tyler Moore (1937 - 2017)

“Do what you are afraid to do.” -Mary Emerson (Mary Moody Emerson (1774 - 1863))

“The greatest test of courage on Earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” -Robert G. Ingersoll (Robert Green ‘Bob’ Ingersoll (1833 - 1899))

“Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002))

“Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it’s strengthened by use.” -Ruth Gordon (Ruth Gordon Jones (1896 - 1985))

“Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves; to like themselves.” -Bonaro Overstreet (Bonaro Wilkinson Overstreet (1902 - 1985))

“Courage follows action.” -Mack R. Douglas

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say for yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” -Eleanor Roosevelt (Anna Eleanor ‘Eleanor’ Roosevelt (1884 - 1962))

“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.” -James Stephens (1882 - 1950)

“The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.” -Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” -William James (1842 - 1910): “The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy” (1897), ‘Is Life Worth Living?’

“The only known cure for fear is faith.” -Lena Kellogg Sadler (1875 - 1939)

“Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.” -Peter McWilliams (Peter Alexander McWilliams (1949 - 2000)): “You Can’t Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought” (1988), page 82

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature, and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.” -Anne Frank (Annelies Marie ‘Anne’ Frank (1929 - 1945)): “Diary of a Young Girl” (1952), ’23 February 1944’

“Let your courage inspire the world around you.” -Steve Maraboli (born 1975)

“Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway” (1987) is the title of a book by Susan Jeffers (Susan Jane Jeffers (1938 - 2012)) at www.SusanJeffers.com

“We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action. Fear is nature’s way of warning us to get busy.” -Henry C. Link (Henry Charles Link (1889 - 1952))

“I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” -Frank Herbert

“Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.” -Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

“Never take counsel of your fears.” -Andrew Jackson (1767 - 1845)

“When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.” -Mark Rutherford

“Whenever we’re afraid, it’s because we don’t know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)

“One person’s courage will help the other person to be equally brave.” -Paulo Coelho (born 1947)

“An ounce of action can crush a ton of fear.” -Tim Fargo (Timothy Edward ‘Tim’ Fargo (born 1961))

“Give yourself a pat on the back each time you hang in there when you’re scared.” -Marilyn C. Barrick

“Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.” -Jonathan Lockwood Huie (born 1945)

“To overcome a fear, here’s all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.” -Peter McWilliams (Peter Alexander McWilliams (1949 - 2000))

“Courage is reclaiming your life after a devastating event robs you of your confidence and self-esteem. It is facing tomorrow with a firm resolve to reach deep within yourself to find another strength, another talent . . . It is taking yourself to another level of your own existence where you are once again whole, productive, special.” -Catherine Britton

“Better hazard once than always be in fear.” -Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)

“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘Always do what you are afraid to do.’” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882): “Essays: First Series” (1841), ‘Heroism,’ page 137

“Live in your hopes and not in your fears.” -Johnny Majors

“You will find that most of the reasons you are afraid to do something, are exactly the reasons why you should.” -Bryant McGill (Bryant H. McGill (born 1969))

“Always chase your dreams instead of running from your fears.” -Author Unknown

“Piglet was so excited at the idea of being useful that he forgot to be frightened anymore.” -A. A. Milne (Alan Alexander Milne (1882 - 1956)): “Winnie-the-Pooh” (1926)

“When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of, and soon you will lose your fear of it.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)

“Be brave. Even if you’re not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.” -George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

“A man of courage is also full of faith.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero (also known as Tully or simply Cicero (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.))

“There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger or simply Seneca (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65)): “Epistle 13: On Groundless Fears”

“Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.” -Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))

“Knowledge is the antidote for fear.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

“You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))

“Do the thing you are afraid to do and the death of fear is certain.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

“Courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway.” -John Wayne (pseudonym of Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison (1907 - 1979)))

“Commit yourself to a dream . . . Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life’s most important battle - he defeated the fear of trying.” -Robert H. Schuller (Robert Harold Schuller (1926 - 2015))

“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” -Mary Schmich: ‘Advice, Like Youth, Probably Just Wasted on the Young’ column published in the “Chicago Tribune” (1 June 1997) newspaper, Page 4C

“May you always do what you are afraid to do.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

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How to Be Successful

1/31/2021

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“Success is in making progress in a chosen direction, either with or without a clearly defined destination.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.” -Howard Nemerov (1920 - 1991)

“The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.” -Author Unknown

“Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop them.” -T. Harv Eker

“The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed. Most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.” -Michael Korda (born 1919)

“When you get down to the root of the meaning of the word ‘succeed,’ you will find it simply means to follow through.” -F. W. Nichols

“The secret to success is doing the stuff other people won’t do, and doing it for a really long time.” -John Jantsch

“When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that . . . the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))

“The key to success in any situation in life is exceeding another’s expectations.” -Paul Timm: “51 Ways to Save Your Job”

“To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.” -Anna Pavlova (1881 - 1931)

“Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.” -Author Unknown

“Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.” -Charles F. Kettering (Charles Franklin Kettering (1876 - 1958)): as attributed in “Science Education” (1961)

“In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.” -Author Unknown

“Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity. Successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.” -William James (1842 - 1910)

“One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.” -Mary Kay Ash (1918 - 2001)

“Every man should make up his mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man’s dollar.” -E. H. Harriman (Edward Henry Harriman)

“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” -Mark Caine

“The successful [person] always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.” -Mark Caine

“The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.” -Nelson Boswell

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910))

“Association influences success. Be with the right people, not the crowd.” -Moses Simuyemba (Moses Chikoti Simuyemba)

“I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.” -Edward Rickenbacker (Edward Vernon ‘Eddie’ Rickenbacker (1890 - 1973))

“The men whom I have seen succeed have always been cheerful and helpful, who went about their business with a smile on their faces, and took changes and chances of this mortal life like men.” -Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)

“Successful people do not wait for opportunities; they go looking for them.” -Author Unknown

“Study successful men and women and do what they do and you’ll be successful too.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)

“The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren’t is the willingness to work very, very hard.” -Helen Gurley Brown (1922 - 2012)

“Surround yourself with people who have ambitious plans, meaningful purposes, and big goals.” -Jeff Haden

“The key to success lies in creating a succession of little victories, each one empowering the next.” -Stu Mittleman

“To succeed, we must first believe that we can.” -Michael Korda (born 1919)

“Never allow others to label you a failure or a success . . . you alone decide what is true for you.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“The secret to success is doing the best that you can do. By working hard and practicing the skills that you need to perform, the results will take care of themselves.” -Barbara Ann Cochran

“All the so-called ‘secrets of success’ will not work unless you do.” -Author Unknown

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” -Conrad Hilton (1887 - 1979)

“Forget about your worst failures and concentrate on your best efforts.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“Success requires a focused attention of your time and energy. This is true no matter what you want to achieve - to change the world or simply change apartments. All success stories come down to one person having a focused aim - so focused at times it can look like an obsession.” -Nigel Cumberland: “100 Things Successful People Do: Little Exercises for Successful Living” (2016)

“Give yourself permission to fail so that success can follow.” -Author Unknown

“The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it’s a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.” -Charles R. Swindoll (Charles Rozell ‘Chuck’ Swindoll (born 1934))

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” -William A. Feather (William Arthur Feather (1889 - 1981))

“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” -Charles F. Kettering (Charles Franklin Kettering (1876 - 1958))

“Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009))

“You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon Hill (1883 - 1970))

“Be as upbeat as you can be: The basic success orientation is having an optimistic attitude.” -John DePasquale

“Do the work. Everyone wants to be successful, but nobody wants to do the work.” -Gary Vaynerchuk

“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” -John D. Rockefeller (John Davison Rockefeller, Senior (1839 - 1937)): as quoted in Zig Ziglar: “Steps to the Top” (1985), page 16

“There is but one secret to success: Never give up.” -Ben Nighthorse Campbell

“Those who persist through failures, and keep on failing, are those likely to reach a point where successes start to happen for them.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.” -Tony Dorsett

“Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

“The secret of man’s success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.” -J. G. Holland (Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819 - 1881))

“Success doesn’t come to you . . . you go to it.” -Marva Collins

“If you want to be successful, find someone who achieved the results you want and copy what they do, and you’ll achieve the same results.” -Tony Robbins (Anthony Jay ‘Tony’ Robbins (born 1960))

“The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.” -Joyce Brothers (Joyce Diane Brothers (1927 - 2013))

“Success in your life or business isn’t magic or luck; it is the result of knowledge of the right things to do.” -Stephen A. Matuszak

“To be successful, you don’t have to do extraordinary things. Just do ordinary things extraordinarily well.” -Author Unknown

“The secret of success is the ability to survive failure.” -Noël Coward (1899 - 1973)

“If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.” -Brad Szollose

“The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.” -Nelson Boswell

“If you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are.” -Russell Conwell (Russell Herman Conwell (1843 - 1925))

“Knowledge, ability, and experience are of little avail in reaching high success if courtesy be lacking. Courtesy is the one passport that will be accepted without question in every land, in every office, in every home, in every heart in the world. For nothing commends itself so well as kindness; and courtesy is kindness.” -George D. Powers

“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” -Joyce Brothers (Joyce Diane Brothers (1927 - 2013))

“To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there.” -François de La Rochefoucauld (also known as François Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680))

“The secret I learned early on from my father was to run scared and never think I had it made. I never felt I was completely adequate to the job and always ran scared. The fundamental for our success was running scared.” -Thomas J. Watson, Junior (1914 - 1993)

“All successful people are people of purpose. They hold fast to an idea, a project, a plan, and will not let it go; they cherish it, brood upon it, tend and develop it; and when assailed by difficulties, they refuse to be beguiled into surrender; indeed, the intensity of the purpose increases with the growing magnitude of the obstacles encountered.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912): “As a Man Thinketh”

“The secret of a person’s success is discovered in their daily agenda.” -John C. Maxwell (John Calvin Maxwell (born 1947))

“The secret of successful people lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.” -John C. Maxwell (John Calvin Maxwell (born 1947))

“Falling and getting back up is what brings you success.” -Tony Horton

“There are two essential requirements for success. The first is ‘go-at-it-iveness’ and the second is ‘stick-to-it-iveness.’” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1848 - 1924))

“Success, remember, is the reward of toil.” -Sophocles (496 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.)

“Be so successful that you no longer have to introduce yourself.” -Grant Cardone

“A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.” -Joyce Brothers (Joyce Diane Brothers (1927 - 2013))

“The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.” - Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1859 - 1915))

“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember, that’s where you will find success.” -Thomas J. Watson (Thomas J. Watson, Senior (1874 - 1956))

“Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.” -Christopher Lasch (Christopher ‘Kit’ Lasch (1932 - 1994))

“Begin by writing down what success means to you. Next, find pictures of what success means to you. Then, re-read what you have written and look at the pictures regularly, say daily or weekly. Firmly fix in your mind these things, and the miraculous creative process of your mind will go to work for you.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.” -Harvey Mackay (Harvey B. Mackay (born 1932))

“No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.” -Russell Conwell (Russell Herman Conwell (1843 - 1925))

“Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.” -David G. Myers

“Do more than you have to do, more than your share, and do it as well as you can.” -Ralph Charell

“The most successful people reach the top not because they are free of limitations, but because they act in spite of their limitations.” -Michael K. Williams

“Four surefire rules for success: Show up. Pay attention. Ask Questions. Don’t quit.” -Rob Gilbert

“You can fail at plenty as long as you get a few important things right.” -Tim Ferriss

“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon Hill (1883 - 1970))

“The real secret of success is enthusiasm.” -Walter Chrysler

This is MFOL! . . . now go find something to be successful at . . .

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How to Be Happy

12/5/2020

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“Find your own happiness . . . it’s not the same for everyone.” -Author Unknown

“Happiness springs from intense activity in congenial surroundings.” -Harold Nicholson

“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)

“Happiness is simply a habit of looking on the brighter side of everything.” -Richelle E. Goodrich (born 1968): “Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year” (5 December 2013)

“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything they have.” -Judith May

“The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go ’round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.” -Jean Webster (pseudonym of Alice Jane Chandler Webster (1876 - 1916)): “Daddy-Long-Legs” (1912)

“The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.” -Author Unknown

“Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.” -Frank Baer (Paul Frank ‘Frank’ Baer (1894 - 1930))

“Don’t wait for things to get easier, simpler, better. Life will always be complicated. Learn to be happy right now. Otherwise, you’ll run out of time.” -Author Unknown

“The happiest people don’t worry too much about whether life is fair or not, they just get on with it.” -Author Unknown

“Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.” -Bernard Meltzer (Bernard C. Meltzer (1916 - 1998))

“Now happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature: it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.” -John Mason Good (1764 - 1827): “The Book of Nature” (1826), Series III, Lecture VII

“If you want to be happy . . . then be happy.” -Author Unknown

“Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, whole-heartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.” -William H. Sheldon (William Herbert Sheldon (1898 - 1977))

“The secret of happiness is something to do.” -John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)

“The happiest people are those who discover that what they should be doing and what they are doing are the same thing.” -Author Unknown

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings.” -Elizabeth Gilbert: “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, Indonesia, and India” (16 February 2006) book

“It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men. When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don’t pity them, don’t feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead.” -Brutus Hamilton

“Happiness depends not on things around me, but on my attitude.” -Alfred A. Montapert (Alfred Armand Montapert (1906 - 1997))

“You don’t become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.” -Harold Kushner (Harold Samuel Kushner (born 1935))

“The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it; every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.” -John D. Rockefeller III (John Davison Rockefeller III (1906 - 1978))

“Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” -Norman MacEwan (Norman Duckworth Kerr MacEwan (1881 - 1953))

“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.” -George Sand

“If you observe a really happy man, you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as if it were a goal in itself, nor will he be seeking for it among the nebulous wastes of metaphysics . . . To find happiness, we must seek for it in a focus outside ourselves.” -W. Béran Wolfe (Walter Béran Wolfe (1900 - 1935))

“It is neither wealth or splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which gives happiness.” -Author Unknown

“Happiness isn’t at the end of the rainbow. Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow. Following the rainbow is happiness, not getting to the end of it.” -Werner Erhard (Werner Hans Erhard (born 1935 as John Paul ‘Jack’ Rosenberg))

“You do not find a happy life. You make it.” -Camilla E. Kimball (Camilla Eyring Kimball (1894 - 1987))

“To be happy you must be your sunshine.” -C. E. Jerningham (Charles Edward Jerningham (1854-1921))

“Too happy would you be, did you but know your own advantages.” -Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro, also known as Virgil (70 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.))

“Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.” -Author Unknown

“Life is huge! Rejoice about the Sun, Moon, flowers, and sky. Rejoice about the food you have to eat. Rejoice about the body that houses your spirit. Rejoice about the fact that you can be a positive force in the world around you. Rejoice about the love that is around you. If you want to be happy, commit to making your life one of rejoicing.” -Author Unknown

“Happiness begins in facing life with a smile and a wink.” -Author Unknown

“The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.” -Charles W. Eliot (Charles William Eliot (1834 - 1926))

“To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.” -C. C. Colton (Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832))

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” -Denis Waitley (Denis E. Waitley (born 1933)), website: http://www.Waitley.com/

“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 (Dale Breckenridge Carnegie (1888 - 1955))

“Happiness lies only in a divine unrest; and if you are lapped in comfort you stagnate and miss it.” -John Buchan (1875 - 1940): “A Lodge in the Wilderness” (1906), Chapter I

“If you ever find happiness hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles*, on her nose all the time.” -Josh Billings (pseudonym of Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818 - 1885))
*spectacles: eyeglasses

“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.” -John Dewey (1859 - 1952)

“Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.” -Vernon Howard (Vernon Linwood Howard (1918 - 1992))

“There is only one real happiness in life and that is the happiness of creating.” -Frederick Delius

“Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.” -Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999): as quoted in Willy Kost: “The Nice and the Good” (1968), chapter 22

“The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.” -V. S. Pritchett (Victor Sawdon Pritchett (1900 - 1997))

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.” -Aldous Huxley (Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 - 1963)): “Distractions I,” essay published in Christopher Isherwood, editor: “Vedanta for the Western World” (1945)

“True happiness only comes by making others happy.” -Thomas S. Monson (Thomas Spencer Monson (1927 - 2018)): “Christmas Devotional” (2007)

“Happiness will come to you when it comes from you.” -Author Unknown

“The secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life, and in elevating them to art.” -William Morris (1834 - 1896)

“I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends, and a wife and children to share life’s beauty with you.” -J. Kenfield Morley (John Kenfield Morley, also known as John Angelo Posus (born 1906))

“We must be doing something to be happy.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)

“How to be happy: Ignore people who think they know more about you than you do.” -Author Unknown

“Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009))

“He alone is the happy man who has learned to extract happiness not from ideal conditions but from actual ones about him.” -Author Unknown

“Even if you’re unhappy, just pretend that you’re happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that. I used to think, ‘I’m being fake,’ but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable.’” -Evangeline Lilly (Nicole Evangeline Lilly (born 1979))

“Work, either with the hands or the head. The moment you have something to do, the draughts are open and the chimney draws and you are happy.” -Author Unknown

“Some days you just have to create your own sunshine.” -Author Unknown

“The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.” -H. C. Mattern

“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” -Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)

“There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.” -David Burns: “Intimate Connections” (1985)

“Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.” -Ralph Marston (Ralph S. Marston, Junior (born 1955))

“In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.” -Karl Reiland

“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.” -Desiderius Erasmus (Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, also known as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus (1466 - 1536))

“Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnegey (1888 - 1955)))

“A happy life is made up of little things . . . a gift sent, a letter written, a call made, a recommendation given, transportation provided, a cake made, a book lent, a check sent.” -Carol Holmes

“Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.” -Emory Austin

“To be happy, make other people happy.” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002))

“The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality.” -William L. Phelps (William Lyon Phelps (1865 - 1943))

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.” -Roy Goodman (Roy Matz Goodman (1930 - 2014))

“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” -Theodore Rubin (Theodore Isaac Rubin (born 1923))

“Enjoy where you are at on the way to where you are going.” -Author Unknown

“Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. They think it comes from doing something on a big scale, from a big fortune, or from some great achievement, when, in fact, it is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924))

“The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.” -Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893 - 1986)

“Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying, ‘Wow, this is it. I guess I’m happy. I’ve got a home that I love. A career that I love. I’m even feeling more and more at peace with myself.’ If there’s something else to happiness, let me know. I’m ambitious for that, too.” -Harrison Ford (born 1942)

“There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.” -Thich Nhat Hanh (born 1926)

“True happiness is not made in getting something. True happiness is becoming something.” -Marvin J. Ashton (Marvin Jeremy Ashton (1915 - 1971))

“Happiness is not a string of miscellaneous adventures or experiences but an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” -Francesca Reigler

“The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.” -Author Unknown

“Happiness is a byproduct of an effort to make someone else happy.” -Gretta Brooker Palmer (Gretta Brooker Palmer Clark (1905 - 1953))

“Stop waiting for Friday, for Summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you are in now.” -Author Unknown

“To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)

We are MFOL! . . . we were so happy while working on this article that we had to check periodically to make sure that our feet were still on the ground . . .

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How to Live a Hundred Years Happily

4/7/2020

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How to Live a Hundred Years Happily

1. Do not be on the lookout for ill health.
2. Keep usefully at work.
3. Have a hobby.
4. Learn to be satisfied.
5. Keep on liking people.
6. Meet adversity valiantly.
7. Meet the little problems in life with decision.
8. Above all, maintain a good sense of humor, best done by saying something pleasant every time you get a chance.
9. Live and make the present hour pleasant and cheerful. Keep your mind out of the past, and keep it out of the future.

by John A. Schindler, M.D.

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Personal Potential

3/22/2020

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“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” -R. Buckminster Fuller (Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller (1895 - 1983))

“You are as amazing as you let yourself be. Let me repeat that. You are as amazing as you let yourself be.” -Elizabeth Alraune

“We always may be what we might have been.” -Adelaide A. Procter (Adelaide Anne Procter (1825 - 1864)): “Legends and Lyrics” (1858), ‘A Legend of Provence’

“There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, ‘It all depends on me’.” -André Gide (André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869 - 1951))

“You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.” -E. O. Wilson

“Sometimes it’s the people that no one can imagine anything of that do the things that no one can imagine.” -Author Unknown

“You are meant to be whatever you dream of becoming.” -Edmund O’Neill

“Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.” -Author Unknown

“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.” -Hanoch McCarty

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” -Henry S. Haskins (Henry Stanley Haskins (1876 - 1957)): “Meditations in Wall Street” (1940), originally published anonymously; quotation commonly misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson or Henry David Thoreau

“Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are capable of greater things than we realize.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)

“The real tragedy of life is not in being limited to one talent, but in the failure to use that one talent.” -Edgar W. Work

“You need never feel inferior. You need never feel that you were born without talents or without opportunities to give them expression. Cultivate whatever talents you have, and they will grow and refine and become an expression of your true self - appreciated by others.” -Gordon B. Hinckley (Gordon Bitner Hinckley (1910 - 2008))

“You may be whatever you resolve to be. Determine to be something in the world, and you will be something. ‘I cannot,’ never accomplished anything; ‘I will try,’ has wrought wonders.” -J. Hawes (Joel Hawes (1789 - 1867))

“Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.” -E. F. Schumacher (Ernst Friedrich ‘Fritz’ Schumacher (1911 - 1977))

“Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.” -Frank Tyger (1929 - 2011)

“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.” -Muhammad Ali (Casius Clay)

“Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.” -Juvenal (Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (about C.E. 55 - C.E. 130)): as attributed in Maturin M. Ballou: “Edge-Tools of Speech” (1886), page 405

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans (1819 - 1880))

“We have to go for what we think we’re fully capable of, not limit ourselves by what we’ve been in the past.” -Vivek Paul

“It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784): as quoted in James Boswell: “The Life of Samuel Johnson” (1791)

“You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish - if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.” -Robert Collier (1885 - 1950)

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “Hamlet” (1600 - 1601), Act 4, scene 5, line 43

“You are more than what you may think of yourself as being, for you are what you are now, plus your potential.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)

“Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881 - 1955)

“The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could be.” -John Grimes

“Do not set your limits by the limits of others.” -Robert Heckendorn

“Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002))

“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.” -Mary Kay Ash (1918 - 2001)

“If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.” -Bob Conklin

“You may have heard the phrase ‘a world without limits’ or ‘a life without limits,’ but remember those things start with ‘a you without limits.’ Take down the barriers, most of which exist only in the mind.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“There are powers inside of you, which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924))

“It’s not what you are, but what you don’t become, that hurts.” -Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)

The potential within a tiny seed is to become a towering green leafy plant. The potential within you also is to become something more than what you are now.

“Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.” -Alan Loy McGinnis (1933 - 2005)

“You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002))

“Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.” -James R. Cook

“Within every person is the capacity to become something greater than he now is.” -Paul S. McElroy

“Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.” -Richard E. Byrd (Richard Evelyn Byrd, Junior (1888 - 1957))

“The average human being has the ability to achieve almost anything.” -Tom Hopkins (born 1944)

“Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery. These models of excellence will inspire you and guide you toward the fulfilment of your highest potential.” -Tony Buzan

“A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?” -Jane Wagner (born 1935)

“Imagine no limitations on what you can be, have, or do.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!” -J. K. Rowling (pseudonym of Joanne ‘Jo’ Rowling (born 1965)): “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” (8 July 2000); line spoken by character Professor Dumbledore

“There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.” -Jane Roberts

“Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

“Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but set his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.” -J. Herman Randall

“There isn’t a ruler, a yardstick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.” -Paul J. Meyer (Paul James Meyer (1928 - 2009))

“Let each become all that he was created capable of being.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 -1881)

“The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))

“You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity, self-sacrifice, honor, nobility of heart, you have an equal chance with everyone to be the most beloved and honored of all people.” - Archibald Rutledge

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” -Malcolm Forbes (Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (1919 -1990))

“If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits.” -Don Ward

“The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.” -Bob Proctor

“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.” -Winston Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965))

“To reach your greatest potential you’ll have to fight your greatest fears.” -Author Unknown

“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924))

“Few of us know what we are capable of doing . . . we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out.” -Alfred A. Montapert (Alfred Armand Montapert (1906 - 1997))

“I never met a person, I don’t care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don’t care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. When he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.” -Preston Bradley

“It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.” -George F. Will (born 1941)

“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!” -Anne Frank (Annelies Marie ‘Anne’ Frank (1929 - 1945))

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How to Stay Young

1/30/2020

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How to Stay Young

1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight, and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay them.
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever, even ham radio. Never let the brain idle. ‘An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.’
4. Enjoy the simple things.
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be alive while you are alive.
7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it is family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, and whatever else. Your home is your refuge.
8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
9. Don’t take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country - but not to where the guilt is.
10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

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How to Manage Time

1/29/2020

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What is the best way your time could be spent right now, at this very moment?

“To get more time with your family, limit and restrict television, newspapers, and outside activities.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)

“One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

“People waste most of their waking hours every day going through the motions, chatting idly, shuffling paper, putting off decisions, reacting, majoring in minors, and concentrating on trivia. They spend their time in low priority tension relieving, rather than high priority goal-achieving activities.” -Denis Waitley (Denis E. Waitley (born 1933))

“Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life.” -Michael LeBoeuf (born 1942)

“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)

“If you don’t have time to do it right, you must have time to do it over.” -Author Unknown

“Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?” -Marilyn vos Savant (born 1946)

“You will find time for anything if you really want it.” -Author Unknown

“Just as your fortune depends upon how your money is invested, so the success of your life depends upon how your time is invested.” -Leone Kester

“I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.” -Philip Dormer Stanhope (also known as Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)): letter (30 April 1750) to his son

“Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed.” -Peter F. Drucker (Peter Ferdinand Drucker (1909 - 2005))

“There’s time enough, but none to spare.” -Charles W. Chesnutt (Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858 - 1932)): “The Marrow of Tradition” (1901)

Miserly tip: Rather than wait for soup, coffee, hot cocoa, or tea to cool, slowly add a small amount of liquid such as water or milk until the drink or food is cool enough that it will not burn your tongue and throat.

“Plan every day in advance, preferably the night before. Plan every week in advance, as well.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)

“Unlike other resources, time cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or stolen, stocked up or saved, manufactured, reproduced, or modified. All we can do is make use of it. And whether we use it or not, it nevertheless slips away.” -Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber (born 1937): “The Art of Time” (1984)

“In developing excellent time management skills, focus on changing only one behavior at a time.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)

“Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.” -Theophrastus (370 B.C.E. - 287 B.C.E.)

“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.” -C. C. Colton (Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832))

“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

“There are days I’m so busy that I don’t get anything done.” -Author Unknown

“You can’t make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future.” -Ashley Ormon (born 1958)

“We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going day in and day out. Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.” -Arnold Bennett (Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867 - 1931))

“Counting time is not so important as making time count.” -James J. Walker (James John Walker (1881 - 1946))

“Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)

“If you don’t make time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want.” -Kevin Ngo: “Let’s Do This! 100 Powerful Messages to Help You Take Action” (September 2013)

“Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely.” -Thomas P. Murphy

“There is not a single moment in life that we can afford to lose.” -Edward M. Goulburn (Edward Meyrick Goulburn (1818 - 1897))

“Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone and never in your power again.” -Marcus Aurelius (also known as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (C.E. 121 - C.E. 180)): “The Meditations” (C.E. 167)

“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.” -Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888)

“How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.” -David B. Norris

“Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind.” -Isaac Pitman

“Do you have all that you desire? The health, the home, the career, or the relationship? Look to where you’re investing your time the most - is it dedicated to achieving those desires?” -Rob Liano

“Treat your time like money; how can you best spend it to achieve maximum satisfaction?” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)

“You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.” -Author Unknown

“The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.” -Matthew Hale

“Lose an hour in the morning and you’ll be looking for it all day.” -Author Unknown: Irish proverb

“Time management is really this: You have a period of time, whether a minute, an hour, a morning, a day, a week, a season, or a lifetime. Will you fill that period of time with some activity that is of benefit, or will you do nothing and let the time pass empty of benefit? Will you manage your time, or will you allow other people and circumstances to manage it for you?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.” -George M. Adams (George Matthew Adams (1878 - 1962))

“Everything requires time. It is the only true universal condition. All work takes place and uses time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.” -Peter F. Drucker (Peter Ferdinand Drucker (1909 - 2005))

“A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well.” -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

“Don’t waste time with people who waste time.” -Keesya Hill-Jones (Keesya Renée Hill-Jones (born 1971)): “The Protector” (23 May 2017)

“We carefully watch our money and consider the cost of things. We ought to do likewise with our time. Imagine if at the beginning of each day, we were given 24 pieces of paper, similar to paper money, and we had to surrender one of them as each hour passed; and, additionally, we would have round coin-like disks with values assigned to them such as half-hour, quarter hour, five minutes, one minute, half-minute or thirty seconds, and finally, a one second disk, all to be surrendered with the passing of time. Would that help us to better understand the value of time?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

“Burnout occurs when your body and mind can no longer keep up with the tasks you demand of them. Don’t try to force yourself to do the impossible. Delegate time for important tasks, but always be sure to leave time for relaxation and reflection.” -Del Suggs: “Truly Leading: Lessons in Leadership” (28 February 2011)

“Work hard, but do not allow yourself to have a burnout. Pace yourself. Force yourself to take breaks. Break up work periods by alternating types of work, as for example, rotating mental work and physical work.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.” -Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C.E. - about C.E. 17))

“Every minute that you save by making it useful, more profitable, is so much added to your life and its possibilities. Every minute lost is a neglected by-product once gone you will never get it back.” -Arthur Brisbane (1864 - 1936)

“Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.” -Paul J. Meyer (Paul James Meyer (1928 - 2009))

“Always spend your time adding value to your life.” -Sunday Adelaja

“Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.” -Carl Sandburg (Carl August Sandburg (1878 - 1967))

“Do not waste time attempting to make sense out of nonsense.” -Johnnie Dent, Junior

“It’s really great fun to go someplace where there are no timesaving devices because, when you do, you find that you have lots of time. Elsewhere, you’re too busy working to pay for machines to save you time so you won’t have to work so hard.” -Benjamin Hoff (born 1946): “The Tao Of Pooh” (1982); author website: https://www.benjaminhoffauthor.com/

“Gain control of your time, and you will gain control of your life.” -John L. Mason (John Landis Mason (1832 - 1902))

“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.” -Marcus Aurelius (also known as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (C.E. 121 - C.E. 180)): “The Meditations” (C.E. 167) (1964 translation by Maxwell Staniforth)

“TIME: Today Is My Everything.” -Richie Norton

“He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavor to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784): as quoted in “Rambler,” #108

“Those who make the best Use of their Time have none to spare.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732), number 5029

“If time be judiciously employed, there is time for everything.” -George Head (1782 - 1855): “A Home Tour Through the Manufacturing Districts of England in the Summer of 1835” (1836), page 198

“To finish early, start early.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” -H. Jackson Brown, Junior (Harriett Jackson Brown, Junior (born 1940)): “Life’s Little Instruction Book”

“You can find the time for the people and things that are most important to you.” -Author Unknown

“Those who make time for others are forever blessed.” -Margo Vader

“The balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities.” -Edith Schaeffer (born Edith Rachel Merritt Seville): “The Hidden Art of Homemaking” (1971)

“To some degree, you control your life by controlling your time.” -Conrad Hilton (1887 - 1979)

A Prayer for Today

This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it - or use it for good, but what I do today is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for it! When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something that I have traded for it. I want it to be gain, and not loss; good, and not evil; success, and not failure; in order that I shall not regret the price that I have paid for it.

by Heartsill Wilson (W. Heartsill Wilson (1920 -1994))

“The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one’s day and every night to examine the results obtained.” -Alexis Carrel (1873 - 1944)

“I am definitely going to take a course on time management . . . just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.” -Louis E. Boone (born 1941)

“Time management is the major difference between the rich and poor.” -Sunday Adelaja

“A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.” -Charles Darwin (Charles Robert Darwin (1809 - 1882))

“It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?” -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

“Your work goals should leave the space and time you need to enjoy your personal pursuits.” -Leigh Shulman

“Everyone has the same amount of hours per day, it’s not that you don’t have enough time, it’s that you don’t have a clear focus.” -Bridget English

“The secret of success in life is time rightly used.” -Sivananda Saraswati

“In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.” -John Lubbock (1834 - 1913)

“The people with thriving careers and healthy personal relationships get the same amount of time each week as the burned-out professional who can’t remember their last meaningful conversation with a family member.” -Joe Jordan: “Sharpen Your Life: 52 Strategic Moments to Create a Lifetime of Success”

“If you want to have the time of your life, change how you use the time in your life.” -Tim Fargo (Timothy Edward ‘Tim’ Fargo (born 1961))

“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” -Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)

“Make the most of now.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.” -Lee Iacocca (Lido Anthony ‘Lee’ Iacocca (1924 - 2019))

This is MFOL! . . . time well-spent . . .

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