Hopes & Wishes Are Diluted Forms of Aspiration

Hope is vitally important but it rarely is of such sufficiency that we are elevated by it. It is a saving grace rather than an elevating one.

Hopes and wishes are diluted forms of aspiration. THEY REPRESENT WILL WITHOUT DETERMINATION.

Don't permit your thinking to be passive or fanciful. Evaluate each hope and wish and decide whether or not such are the objects of your heart'desire. DO YOU REALLY WANT THESE THINGS WITH A SUFFICIENT DETERMINATION THAT YOU ARE WILLING TO PAY THE PRICE FOR THE ATTAINMENT?

WISHING WILL NEVER MAKE IT SO. If we really want something we must decide positively, once and for all. DOES OUR WILLINGNESS TO PAY THE PRICE SATISFY THE AMBITION?

HOPES AND WISHES HAVE A BAD HABIT OF LIVING IN THE FUTURE AND DYING IN THE PRESENT.Their tomorrow will never be real,genuine and meaningful for us unless and until WE COMMENCE ACTING ON THEM TODAY.

Benefits of Struggling!!!

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared, and he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther.

Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.

The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that at any moment the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time. Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.

What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were God's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If God allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. And we could never fly.

Change Is Your own Power of Choice

Any day we wish; we can discipline ourselves to change it all.
Any day we wish; we can open the book that will open our mind
to new knowledge. Any day we wish; we can start a new activity.
Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change. We
can do it immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year.

We can also do nothing. We can pretend rather than perform. And
if the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable,
we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labor,
entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over
confidence. The choices are ours to make. But while we curse the
effect, we continue to nourish the cause. As Shakespeare uniquely
observed, "The fault is not in the stars, but in ourselves." We
created our circumstances by our past choices.

We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better
choices beginning today. Those who are in search of the good life
do not need more answers or more time to think things over to reach
better conclusions. They need the truth. They need the whole truth.
And they need nothing but the truth.

We cannot allow our errors in judgment, repeated every day, to lead
us down the wrong path. We must keep coming back to those basics
that make the biggest difference in how our life works out. And
then we must make the very choices that will bring life, happiness
and joy into our daily lives.

And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone
seeking and needing to make changes in their life - If you don't like
how things are, change it! You're not a tree. You have the ability to
totally transform every area in your life - and it all begins with
your very own power of choice.

If You Have a Dream !!!

Don't wait for some distant day to come,
it may be too late before you've even begun.
Not everyone will agree with all you decide.

Be true to yourself first and foremost.
The only important thing in life is what
you do with the time you spend here on earth.

Don't cloud today with things that can't
be undone. You have no more control over
yesterday or tomorrow, than you do the raging
of your passions.

Do not quiet these dreams
nor quench your desires. For if you do,
your journey is ended.

You have only today to begin anew and
follow your dreams. For in the end all
we have are our memories.

When the twilight comes to us, let there
be, no excuses, no explanations,
no regrets!

- Unknown

Real Meaning of Peace....

There once was a King who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace.

Many artists tried.

The King looked at all the pictures, but there were only two he really liked and he had to choose between them.

One picture was of a calm lake.

The lake was a perfect mirror, for peaceful towering mountains were all around it. Overhead was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. All who saw this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace.

The other picture had mountains, too.

But these were rugged and bare.
Above was an angry sky from which rain fell and in which lightening played.

Down the side of the mountain tumbled a foaming waterfall.

This did not look peaceful at all.

But when the King looked, he saw behind the waterfall a tiny bush growing in a crack in the rock.
In the bush a mother bird had built her nest.
There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, sat the mother bird on her nest... perfect peace.

Which picture do you think won the prize?

The King chose the second picture.
Do you know why?

"Because," explained the King, "peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work.
Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart. That is the real meaning of peace."

May each one of you find peace... wherever you may be!!!

Empower Yourself with The Poem.....Today is The Great Day!!!

Today
By : Semetra C. Vanison

Today is the day I will change my mind,
and leave all the negative things behind.

Today is the day I want to be free,
and not let life troubles get to me.

Today is the day I will do my best,
and make sure I focus to past each day's test.

Today is the day I will take a stand,
and choose to do right to my fellow man.

Today is the day I will put my foot down,
and encourage myself when I want to frown.

Today is the day, no longer will I doubt
in spite of the grumblers who stand about.

You look at me and ask "How will you start?",
"Well, first there must be a change in my heart".

I will hang with new friends who want to achieve,
and who want a good education cause that's what I believe.

I will respect those around me, young and old,
for respect is the key, that's what I've been told.

I will demand excellence you see,
for I must insist to become a better me.

I will reach for the stars no matter how hard it seems,
and fly like a bird with the knowledge this journey brings.

So you see it's not impossible, I must take life day by day
and do the right things as I travel along the way!

You Are The Key Person Of Your Success !!!

You are the key - the key person - to your success!

These key thoughts and ideas can open golden doors of success for you.

Success requires PERSISTENCE.

"Success in life is not so much a matter of talent or opportunity, as it is of concentration and perseverance."
- C.W. Wendte

Success requires TENACITY.

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."
- Disraeli

Success requires HUMILITY.

"The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well without a thought of fame."
- Longfellow

Success requires PURPOSE.

"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration."
- James Allen

Success requires ABILITY.

"Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them; power flows to the individual who knows how."
- Elbert Hubbard

Success requires DILIGENCE.

"Success comes to those who hustle while they wait."
- Thomas Edison

Success requires NOBLE, HONEST EFFORT.

"Take hold of life's toughest knots and try to untie them; try to be worthy of life's highest estate: have high, noble, honor. There is but one test of everything, and that is, is it right? If it is not right, turn away from it."
- Henry A. Wise

Success requires VISION WITH A PLAN.

Success in the world, any kind of success, is like a universal college degree.
It can only be earned by following a certain course of action for a definite period of time.
It is impossible for success, real success, to be easy.
You must first see it, then set a course to achieve it."
- Earl Nightingale

Success requires INITIATIVE.

"Before sitting down to wait for your ship to come in, be sure you have sent one out."