Archive for June, 2008

Are you Sailing?

“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”- John Maxwell Are you complaining about your circumstances? Are you expecting things to change without doing anything? Or are you adjusting and taking charge of the sails and getting where you want to go.

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You Have to Have Faith in Yourself.

Too often we count on someone else to have faith in us. That’s okay, all good and wonderful. I am thankful for the people who have had and do have faith in me. It’s time though that we learn to have faith in ourselves. Faith that we are here on purpose. Faith that God created us to […]

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Try it anyway!

I am really quite a chicken when it comes to trying a lot of new things. So each time something new presents itself to me I have to buck up and remember this quote. “One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was […]

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What are you doing with your dreams?

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Love seeing kites fly?

Highly successful people often speak about the power of imagination: “Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.”~Lauren Bacall Tonight has you lay your head on your pillow I challenge you to imagine the life you want. Perhaps you could start by imagining a perfect day. Since everything in life starts with a thought now is a […]

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Reach

My thoughts for today were inspired by Leo Burnett’ s quote: “When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.”~Leo Burnett As we embark on another week let’s reach for a great future. Through out history no matter how tough things got […]

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Half….what?

How are you looking at things today? Sometimes thinking positive for our whole life can seem overwhelming. However like most things if we take it one step, one moment, one action at a time things seem to work out. With that in mind what if we start looking at everything with the glass is half-full mentality. After all […]

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Living

Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.~Grace Hansen Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! […]

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What to do with all the negative talk…

I received this in an email today from Judi Moreo. I thought it was worth passing on. “It seems that everywhere I’ve turned lately people are talking about the down economy, the high prices of gasoline, and how life is getting tougher and tougher. Just how is one supposed to stay positive when all around […]

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Sun, Son and Sunday

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.~Helen Keller Today is beautiful. I stepped out on to my deck and felt the warmth of the sun. As I prepare to go to church I am thankful for the Son of God and His love and the warmth offered as we walk into […]

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