Envisioning Possibilities
Un Family
“The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics.”
Affirmations
"Affirmations are one of the simplest and most powerful things we can do to change the quality of our lives, and to create the things we want.” Mark Allen From time to time, I am reminded to say this affirmation. It is a gift from Tony Robbins to all of us, “God’s...
Do not duplicate
“Stop acting like you live twice.” Gary Vaynerchuk “Life is not a dress rehearsal!” How many times have we heard both of those quotes? Sometimes fear gets in the way. Sometimes we say to ourselves: ”Let’s just try it a little.” Yoda says “Do or do not, there is no TRY...
Perspective
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds. ~Henry Ward Beecher It is all about perspective. From Sesame Street. “ Where you put your eyes, that’s about the size of it”
Foundation
"A successful man/woman is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." – ...... -David Brinkley During a recent conversation with people in business group, we spoke about being tossed under the bus, getting the slings and arrows...
Lazy Artist
“No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist." – Anonymous Lazy artist? I keep thinking, I’m a lazy artist because it takes me atleast ½ hour plus to “settle down”. Translated that means, the monkey chattering in my brain supplies “other stuff” to think about....
Choice
Every moment is a choice to begin again ….unknown. Sometimes we wallow in the moment, sometimes we stand back and not make a choice. It is much easier to stand back and not make a choice or not make a change. By not choosing we wallow, we indulge ourselves in the way...
Very true. Thanks for the reminder.
This is true. But I am also lucky that the family I was born into is also pretty awesome.
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Tim Brannan, The Other Side blog
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That is true. People who have both types of families can count themselves lucky.