Captive

“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.

When you make changes in your life, that negative voice inside says, why bother, it won’t work, and so on. Refuse to be captive to this voice and push forward with your changes. You will be successful as long as you keep moving forward.

Finding Yourself Out There

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.” – Thomas Szasz.

I think that we all know who we are as children and that our family, friends, and educators sometimes confuse us and we lose that knowing. Then as adults we realize that the path we are on, is not really our own. If we go back to those dreams we had as children, we can “find” ourselves again. The creation part comes from deciding how we express that in our adult lives.

Face Fear

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

Make Them Happen

“My father instilled in me that if you don’t see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen.” – Susan Powter.

Becoming

Using poetic license I changed this quote to apply to myself, since the only person I can change is myself: “If I accept myself as I am, I won’t grow; however, if I treat myself as the person that I am capable of becoming, I help myself become that.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

High Sights

“Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.” – Eileen Caddy

Reach For The Stars

“You have within you the strength, patience & passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman

Words To Live By

Great words to live by:
“Live with intention
Walk to the egde.
Listen hard. Laugh. Play with abandon.
Practice wellness. continue to learn.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Lead or follow a leader.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.”
By MARY ANNE RADMACHER

Light

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened” – Buddha
It really doesn’t cost us anything to smile as we pass by strangers; to help an elderly person who can’t remember where they parked the car; to put some spare change in the cup of someone who needs it more than we do. Simple things that can have a profound effect on the life of another.

Price

“Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.” Leon Suenens – 1904-1996,
By making small changes, I’m getting big results. I’m making my dream come true on multiple levels. Weight loss so far over 16 lbs; I am learning some amazing things about my body; cooked up some new recipes that are really good; lifestyle changes are happening that are so easy it is amazing.

Legacies

I was thinking today about legacies – what we leave behind when we go on to the next adventure. I would like mine to be that there were people who could honestly say that the actions that I have taken in the world inspired them to dream more, do more and become more.

What I Might Be

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
To me, this means not only being myself and not what others expect of me; but also letting go of the titles – daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother which are wonderful roles, but not what I might be. I am still those things, but I am much more.