Push your way to success!

First you make your habits, and then your habits make you.

Break those habits that can break you.
Adopt those practices that will become the new habits that will help you achieve the success you desire.

Your habits are a form of exercise.
The harder you work at something, the harder it is to quit.
The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.

Your habits are either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
You are what you repeatedly do. ~ Max Steingart

Have you ever heard the expression it takes 21 says to make or break a habit?  Well, just think…in less than a month, you can actually be doing whatever it is you REALLY want!  Go for it!  You CAN do it!

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When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel. ~ Harold Kushner

Photo by *D A R I N K A*

Ah yes, Lucy MacDonald has provided yet another great message for us today.  I strongly encourage you to visit her website if you haven’t yet done so.

Random acts of kindness is what triggered my latest endeavor.  Sending out cards. Random cards to my friends, family, colleagues, etc. In fact, anyone that has touched my heart in one way or another.  It’s amazing the feeling I get when someone picks up the phone just to say THANK YOU!

These cards are actual “snail mail” greeting cards that are sent out via the US Postal Service – with a first class stamp.  I’ve been able to add gift cards, my own photos, and even my own handrwriting fonts to make it even more personal.  So personal infact, that the very first person that received my card actually cried because they were so touched by the gesture.

Sending someone a card for a birthday, an anniversary, the purchase of a new home, or even just a way to say thank you, can have amazing effects on those opening their mailboxes and finding that gift of inspiration.

I encourage you to take a look at this site and go ahead and send out a free card yourself, just to see how great it will make you feel.  Consider this to be my little gift of inspiration to YOU!

Have a GREAT day!

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The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking. To have life more abundant, we must think in limitless terms of abundance. Thomas Dreier

More good stuff coming from Lucy MacDonald’s website.  If you enjoy these quotes,  please take a look at her site and let her know that you enjoy what she’s providing.

Here’s wishing you all a great weekend!

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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

This was Lucy MacDonald’s positive quote of the day…and it’s one of my favorites!

Funny thing is that it’s also what I call a “God Wink.”;)  My best friend, Robyn, and I were just talking about Dr. Suess’ book “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” yesterday afternoon and **WALAH**…here’s more words of wisdom from this great man again this morning!

So are you wondering what a “God Wink” is…well, sounds like a new posting for another day!   Have a great Wednesday!

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The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.

Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention… A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. Rachel Naomi Remen
photo by Just SallyRye

More good stuff from Lucy MacDonald’s website.  A great source for inspiration!

Have a great day!

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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

For more great quotes like this one visit Lucy MacDonald’s website.  This is a great source for inspiration!

Have a great day!

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Something we should learn to live by every day:  Try our best to do our best.

I subscribe to a newsletter from beliefnet.com, and they send motivational and inspirational quotes on a regular basis.  This morning’s topic was “Be the Best,” and so I wanted to share some of these quotes with you:

• “I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won’t amount to anything.” — Abraham Lincoln
• “The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.” — Debbi Fields
• “Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.” — David O. McKay
• “Have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to raise a definite standard that will appeal to the best that is in man, and then strive mightily toward that goal.” — Harold E. Stassen

Check out their website and sign up for your own copy of their newsletter!

Enjoy!

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I often feel like a new jolt of motivation is a necessity.

That’s what gave me the idea to create this page simply to inspire not only myself, but others…

Therefore, I will add inspirational quotes and sayings to this page in hopes to bring **SMILES** for all to share.

Michelle

• “Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.” — Vincent Van Gogh

• “Surround yourself with people most like the person you want to become. Stay away from anyone who can or will bring you down.” — Tom Hopkins

• “In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.” — Flora Edwards

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