YOUR ATTITUDE on YOUR CHOICES

YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUILD WHO YOU ARE OVERTIME



 ``The sum of all your thoughts comprises your overall attitude.``

Your attitude colors every aspect of your choices.
It`s like the mind`s paintbrush.

Early in life, you don't have many choices. 

You don't choose where and when you are born.
You don't choose where and when you are born.
You don't choose your parents.
You don't choose your race, your personality type, genetic makeup.
You don't choose your health.
Everything you are and nearly everything you do is not up to you.
You must live with the conditions you find yourself in.

"You start with the cards you're dealt." - Voltaire


But the longer you live, the more your life is shaped by your choices.
You decide what you will eat.
You decide what toys to play with.
You decide whether you will do your homework or watch TV.
You choose which friends to spend time with.
You choose whether to finish high school, whether you will go to college, who you will marry, what you will do for a living.
The longer you live, the more choices you make - and the more responsible you are for how your life is turning out.

As time goes by, choices increases.

``Each man is questioned by LIFE, and he can only answer to LIFE by answering for his own LIFE; to LIFE he can only respond by being responsible.``

ARE YOU DRIVEN BY CHARACTER OR EMOTION?

BY JOHN C. MAXWELL

“The greatest gap in life is the one between knowing and doing.”
- Dick Biggs

Life would certainly be easier – and success more simple – if all it took to achieve was to KNOW the right things and DECIDE to do them, right? But I think it’s more accurate to say that a decision is just one bookend of achievement. The other is discipline. Decisions can only help us start. Discipline helps us finish. That’s where character comes in. Emotion might drive us to make a decision. But character is what keeps us going, even when it gets hard. In Developing the Leader Within You, I wrote about some differences between 
character-driven and emotion-driven people:

Character-driven people…

1. Do right, then feel good.
2. Are commitment driven.
3. Make principle-based decisions.
4. Let action control attitude.
5. Believe it, then see it.
6. Create momentum.
7. Ask, “What are my responsibilities?
8. Continue when problems arise.
9. Are steady.
10. Are leaders.

Emotion-driven people…

1. Feel good, then do right.
2. Are convenience-driven.
3. Make popular decisions.
4. Let attitude control action.
5. See it, then believe it.
6. Wait for momentum.
7. Ask, “What are my rights?”
8. Quit when problems arise.
9. Are moody.
10. Are followers.

The late Louis L’Amour is one of the best-selling authors of all time, with over 300 million copies of his popular western novels and short-story collections sold. When asked the key to his prolific writing, he responded, “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” Allow character and discipline to drive you, and you’ll bridge the gap between knowing and doing. This will take you farther on the journey of success.

GO-GIVER

Giving Takes You Somewhere

All the great fortunes in the world have been created by  men and women who had a greater passion for what they were giving - their product, service or idea - than for what they were getting. And many of those great fortunes have been squandered by others who had a greater passion for what they were getting than what they were giving.

It's up to you who, what, where you're headed. A path of giving or greed. 

Empowering Thoughts: Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day Empowering Thoughts

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~ Irish Proverb

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes one a mother-which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician. ~Sydney J. Harris

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~Abraham Lincoln

When you are a mother,  you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~Sophia Loren

One good mother is worth a schoolmasters. ~George Herbert

No one in the world  can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones. ~Harry Truman

Working 3 Jobs: Worth it or not?

Have you ever tried working 2 - 3 jobs a day at 12 - 18 hours/day, sleep, eat and play aren't yet included? What kept you going?

Each one of us may had gone to the point of working 24 hours a day even without sleep to reach the needs we want for our families, putting food in the table, sheltering and clothing them warmly, and the comfort of having nice things for their convenience where in the back end it will yield the results or life we want for wife and kids.

Giving is good for the Heart.

Many people had their own reasons why they need to be a slave to their time in exchange for money. Three reasons I found in general is all about GIVING:

Never again will I pity or belittle myself.

How foolish I was when I stood in despair, by the side of the road, and envied the successful and wealthy

as they paraded by. Are they blessed with unique skills, rare intelligence, heroic courage, enduring

ambition, and other outstanding qualities that I posses not? Have they been allotted more hours, each

day, in which to perform their mighty tasks? Do they have hearts full of compassion and souls overflow -ing with love that are different from mine? No! God plays no favorites. We were all fashioned from the

same clay.

Now I also know that the sadness and setbacks of my life are not unique to me. Even the wisest and

most successful of our world suffer chapters of heartbreak and failure but they, unlike me, have learned

that there is no peace without trouble, no rest without strain, no laughter without sorrow, no victory

without struggle and that is the price we all pay for living. There was a time when I paid the price willing-ly and easily but constant disappointments and defeats first eroded my confidence and then my cour -age even as drops of water will, in time, destroy the strongest granite. All that is now behind me. No

longer am I one of the living dead, remaining always in the shadows of others and hiding behind my

sorry apologies and alibis while the years waste away.

Never again will I pity or belittle myself.

Thank you, God, for playing your game with me, today, and placing in my hands these precious scrolls. I

was at the lowest ebb of my life but I should have known it is at that moment that the tide always turns.

No longer will I look mournfully to the past. It will never return. Instead, with these scrolls, I will shape the

present because it is mine and I will go forth to meet the mysterious future without fear, without doubt,

without despair.

I was formed in the image of God. There is nothing I cannot achieve if I try.

Never again will I pity or belittle myself.

What is Success to you?

suc·cess

səkˈses/

noun

1. 1.

   the accomplishment of an aim or purpose.

   "the president had some success in restoring confidence"

   synonyms:

   favorable outcome, successfulness, successful result, triumph; Hollywood ending "the success of the scheme"

   Success can be a rather abstract term and it can mean very different things to different people. Trying to define what success is is not easy.

   To most people, success means achieving a goal. In order to achieve a goal, a person usually has to work hard and believe in himself. Being successful at what you do can also be very motivating. People who are successful in one project, tend to be more successful in other projects. This is because they get the feeling that their hard work pays off and that a goal is worth their time and effort. Success usually goes hand in hand with appreciation. If someone we know succeeds at what he or she does, we will most certainly congratulate them. This will make them feel good and motivate them even further.