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Here we are again, ending one year as we begin another. 2009 is upon us and it is once again time to put things in perspective. We can take another opportunity to create new goals, dream new dreams and get inspired.
To become excited or even exhilarated about our lives creates a whole new attitude and set of possibilities that can drive us to new heights.
To consider the poor choices we may have made, the events of the past that have caused us pain or even how outside influences may have nudged us away from our dreams is only useful if it informs us, not if we let it shape or determine our future.
Last month’s Newsletter was about How to Stay Positive in an environment of negativity. The idea that we can train ourselves to think and act constructively even in the face of hardship is not new. We can all agree that a good attitude begins in our heads.
There is an old expression I enjoy quoting which says, “The fish rots from the head down”. The converse is also true; we flourish or thrive from the head down as well.
This month’s Newsletter is all about ...
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Inspiration: 2009
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London
The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Golda Meir
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you?
Henry James
Everyone is unique. Compare not yourself with anyone else lest you spoil God's curriculum.
Baal Shem Tov
If you can imagine it you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague
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