Criticism

“Criticism didn’t really stop us and it shouldn’t ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can’t get a record deal themselves.” – Sir Paul McCartney. Criticism is not from a place of sincere help, but from a place of jealousy & fear of how great you are. When you get criticism, listen with your inner knower & only “hear” the parts that are really true & helpful to you, then shut out the rest.

Broken Places

“The world breaks everyone; then some grow strong in the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway

I love this quote, and never hearing it before I immediately thought of the importance of reframing our experiences that could be termed as negative. If you fall down do you lay there and complain to every passerby or do you pick yourself up, and say “isn’t that interesting, I wonder what happens next?”

Doubts

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

Nothing

“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.” – Leo F. Buscaglia

Life is all about the love and laughter and is made all the sweeter by the occasional sorrow!

Facing Fear

“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.

I remember when they started requiring self serve at the gas station, I was scared to pump my own gas, once I did it, I thought how stupid to have that fear – they are really all like that. When you face your fear you wonder why you ever had it!

Baby Steps

“Keep on going & the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.” – Charles F. Kettering.

Everyday doing a small thing to accomplish your goals will move you forward on your dreams . Baby steps to your next bright idea to help you skip a couple of steps and shoot the rapids bringing one more dream into reality.

Fountain of Knowledge

“Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.”

Thanks to Angel Energy for the quote – it is so true. Acknowledge that acting on the knowledge which is the most important part. The knowledge doesn’t do anything for us if we are not motivated to take action to change and improve. We all need to “be” the change ourselves that we want for the world!

Mistake

“Just because you made a mistake doesn’t mean you are a mistake.” – Georgette Mosbacher

We are far too hard on ourselves when we screw up. Remember we are all human, and the only reason that you think others are better and smarter is because you don’t know all of the mistakes that they have made. We all need to get over ourselves and love ourselves as much as we do others.

Education

“True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then you are a free human being—free of dogmas, superstitions, ceremonies” – J. Krishnamurti

Test everything you read, see, and hear; have an open mind and heart, but don’t be blind to what isn’t truth.

Lost and Found

“When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found.” – Sufism

When you look back in hind sight what you most often find is that loss was a great gift and that is why the spirit laughs for it knows that you are receiving a great treasure.

My Creed

Adapted from My Creed by Dean Alfange:
I do not choose to be common. It is my right to be uncommon. I seek opportunity, not security. I want to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail & succeed. I will not trade freedom for a handout. I will never cower before any bully. It is my duty to stand unafraid, to think & act for myself, enjoy the benefits of my creations & to say, “This I have done.”

Courage

“Courage is fear that has said its prayers” – American Proverb

In the end we have to take a leap into the unknown trusting we will be given wings to fly. We would not have been given the gifts that we have if we weren’t supposed to use them. We fail to give thanks or show appreciation if we don’t use them. So widen out your box today by stepping outside of the boundaries & more of yourself.