Invest Your Time Wisely

“The Past is behind, Learn from it.
The Future is ahead, Prepare for it.
The Present is here, Live it.”
- Thomas S. Monson

With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun. When you truly appreciate life, you'll find that you have more of it.

"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing." - Thomas Jefferson

"A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life." - Charles Darwin

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot." - Michael Altshuler

Do value your time! It is sad to say, until you know how precious your life is, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. Do you agree?

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Remember to always Think Positive!

“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.” - W. Clement Stone

When we are feeling blue and depressed, does it really make sense to say: "I am joyous, happy, glad, etc."? Yes, it surely does.

Forcing positive thoughts drives away our negatives. We can't think two opposite thoughts at the same time. By changing your thoughts, you change your attitude and your feeling. Even the Bible says: Let the weak say I am strong.

Keep your mind filled with positive thoughts and there'll be no room for negatives. That's the whole purpose of affirmations - to keep our minds positive.

Finding positive out of every negative - which we don't always often do.

• For the husband or wife who snores all night, because he or she is at home asleep with me and not with someone else.
• For the taxes that I pay because it means that I am employed.
• For the mess to clean after a party because it means that I have been surrounded by friends.
• For the clothes that fit a little too snug because it means I have enough to eat.
• For a floor that needs mopping, and windows that need cleaning because it means I have a home.
• For all the complaining I hear about the government because it means that we have the freedom of speech.
• For the parking spot I find at the far end of the parking lot because it means I am capable of walking and that I have been blessed with transportation.
• For the pile of laundry and ironing because it means I have clothes to wear.
• For the alarm that goes off in the early morning hours because it means that I am still alive.

Don't just stop at Positive Thinking
However, you'll develop more power, physical, mental, or any skill in 30 minutes of practice than in 20 years of positive thinking.

No one ever became a champion athlete or master musician in 20 years of positive thinking about music or athletics UNLESS he ALSO PRACTICED. Likewise, your living will only improves when you do all that is necessary for the positive change!

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Understanding Stress

A little bit of stress is useful to get things going but too much of it can kills!

"Stress is the trash of modern life - we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life." - Danzae Pace

"If your teeth are clenched and your fists are clenched, your lifespan is probably clenched." - Adabella Radici

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” - William James

"For fast-acting relief, try slowing down." - Lily Tomlin

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." - Bertrand Russell

"Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better." - Yanni

Check out this website for the Signs, Symptoms, Causes, and Effects of Stress.

The bible tells us in Matthew 6:31-34 (NKJV) -

"Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Well, do you have a lot of stress? If you have, do feel free to share how you overcome it.

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Blessed are the pure in heart

"Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well." - Francois.

"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world." - Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

"Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A person's world is only as big as their heart - Tanya A. Moore.

"Words are the voice of the heart." - Confucius

The bible tells us in Matthew 15:18-19 (NKJV)

"But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. "

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands. - Robert M. Persig.

All the knowledge I possess everyone can acquire, but my heart is all my own. - Goethe.

Have you found the way that cultivate a pure heart?

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Treasure Your Good Memories

"We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams." - Jeremy Irons

“Memories are the treasures that we keep locked deep within the storehouse of our souls, to keep our hearts warm when we are lonely.” - Becky Aligada

"The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds." - Tryon Edwards

"Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us." - Oscar Wilde

“Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.” - Kevin Arnold

"A good snapshot stops a moment from running away." - Eudora Welty

"Photos taken can help us to remember those special moments that we cherish.

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Develop Good Character

According to C. Watts "Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking."

Abraham Lincoln says: "Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

He also said that "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Well, it is true that some people pay so much attention to their reputation that they lose their character.

We ought to guard well our thoughts; they soon become acts. guard well our acts; they soon become habits. guard well our habits; they shape our character, our career, our fortune.

"Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination." - H. Jackson Brown

"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character." - W. Somerset Maugham

"Personality can open doors; only character can keep them open."

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Have you come to realization?

One of the reasons people do not take the time to improve the quality of their life, is that they think things will just get better.

They go through each day hoping that their job will 'somehow' improve. They hope that some lucky combination of circumstances will come about and as a result, they will finally be recognised by their employer and rewarded with more responsibility and a bigger salary.

You need to realize that It doesn't get better...You have to!

There is an old saying that goes like this; "If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always got!" How very true that is.

The starting point of all change is in the mind – or more precisely, how you think!

Here's how it works:
1. Your success comes from your results.
2. Your results come from your actions.
3. Your actions come from your thoughts.

So, when you think more effectively, you take better actions, which leads to better results. As you are the only person who is responsible for your thoughts, you decide how successful your career and life will be. It is always up to you, because only you have control of your mind.

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Condition your mind for success

In some mysterious way the subconscious mind tends to actualize what we visualize. So, even when the roof is caving in, picture yourself as a giant success.

"To win a race, you must first win it in your mind."

“Great athletes train their minds as well as their bodies. There are various mental conditioning techniques many use when preparing for an event. Perhaps the best known technique is visualization, creating a mental image not only of the desired result (the gold medal, a new world record, a hole-in-one), but also of every move that will be taken en route to the ultimate goal.”

I had started another blog with this objective; that is to help you condition your mind using images or photos. For example, if you were to mimic this photo and you will feel like laughing. Try it!

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No choice? - You have choices

"God created us, but he gave us the power of choice to shape our own lives and fortunes."

"We can't choose our relatives, but we can choose our thoughts which influence us much more."

"One of the big reasons, that most people go through life getting so little out of it is that, they do not really know what they want. Thing happen to them more by chance than by choice."

"Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it." - Mae West

"A person doesn't learn to choose a good alternative without choosing a few bad ones."

"Too many people, instead of choosing their jobs to fit their talents, let circumstances choose them. And what's left to chance gets chance results."

Tell yourself this: "My mind is a tool I can choose to use any way I wish."

So do you know what you want?

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Remember to put on your thinking cap

"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking." - George Patton

“A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.” - Mahatma Gandhi

“When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.” - Abraham Lincoln

“Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” - William James

"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once a week." - George Bernard Shaw

“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.” - Oscar Wilde

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Why is Language Important?

“Language is the dress of thought.” - Samuel Johnson

"A different language is a different vision of life." - Federico Fellini

“Change your language and you change your thoughts.” - Karl Albrecht

“Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.” - Benjamin Lee Whorf

"It's not what you tell them…it's what they hear." - Red Auerbach

"Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people came from and where they are going." - Rita Mae Brown

How many languages do you speak?

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The Power of Imagination

“I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.” - Peter Nivio Zarlenga

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” - Albert Einstein

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.” - Albert Einstein

“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” - Jamie Paolinetti

“If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.” - Jesse Jackson

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” - George Bernard Shaw

“This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.” - Henry David Thoreau

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” - Albert Einstein

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Making The Right Choice

"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny." - Jean Nidetch

“We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.” - Gary Collins

“You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses” - Ziggy

"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens." - Thaddeus Golas

Look at what you've got and make the best of it. Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Complain or rejoice. It's always your choice.

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.” - Wayne Dyer

It's not a matter of can or cannot, it's a matter of will or will not, everything is a choice, choose wisely.

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Write It Down

Just once in your life sit down to think and decide what one thing you want most out of life - what you want to be, or do, or have.

Then W.I.D. (write it down). Writing down a mere wish works like magic for converting that wish into a goal. And W.I.D. works like DYNAMITE for converting a goal into an actuality - a reality.

One minute spent writing it down will do more to bring it about than ten years of dreaming, wishing, and talking about it.

Whatever you want - large or small, material, mental, or spiritual - write it down as a goal then do something every day to help you reach it. That's the nearest thing to that so called SECRET OF SUCCESS YOU'LL ever discover.

Writing down that statement about our goal will change our whole life. Before we write it down, it was just "some thoughts in our head". Writing it down on paper changed it to something real, on fire, alive. Writing it down on paper was like planting a seed in the ground. It grew.

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Pay attention to your thinking

The wise man thinks before acting and the fool thinks after it.

Whenever a man falls, it is usually at the point where he thinks he is strong.

The higher a man goes the narrower becomes his thinking. Therefore, watch out.

“A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks, he becomes. Those who know how to think need no teachers.” - Mahatma Gandhi

Thought is action in rehearsal. Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest.

Every thought we think is creating our future.

A change for the better always starts with a change of thinking.

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The Power of Hope

Start every day with an inspiring thought. "Great hopes make great men." - Thomas Fuller

Hope is one of those things in life you cannot do without. - LeRoy Douglas

Hope is the power that gives us the power to step out and try. "The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it." - Harvey Milk

“Where there's life, there's hope.” - Terence. There's hope for every failure, as long as he doesn't blame others for his fate.

“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” - Albert Einstein

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Renew your mind

Your mind is a "Thoughts Factory". You are the production manager. It can produce either positive or negative thoughts. Ideas of others are your raw materials.

Let new thoughts make you a new man. Be ye renewed by the renewing of your mind.

Changing our thoughts and attitudes requires effort. But anything that doesn't require effort isn't worth having.

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Control your thoughts

Our mind is a "Thoughts Factory". It can produce either positive or negative thoughts. Ideas of others are our raw materials.

Our thoughts control our life. But we control our thoughts. We are free to think success thoughts - positive thoughts or failure - negative thoughts.

Positive thinking and a positive mental attitude are about the same as keeping our highest moment permanent.

There is a limit to the intensity of any resolution. There is also a limit as to how long it will last. But, fortunately, there is no limit to how often we can renew it. Auto Suggestion - talking to ourselves is one of the most effective of all methods in keeping our highest moments permanent.

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Belief System

"Whether you believe you can do something or you believe you can't, you're right." - Anthony Robbins

Strong belief generates the "can do". The "can do" generates the "how to".

If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you like to win, but you think you can't, it's almost certain you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you're lost, for out in the world you'll find, Success begins with a person's thoughts, it's all in the state of the mind.

Think that you can, and you surely will, it's all in the state of the mind.

Life's prizes don't always go to the stronger or faster man; But sooner or later, the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.

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Don't Worry Be Happy

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them. According to all surveys and statistics, your greatest worry won't happen.

Happiness is easy - dwell on things that make you glad; expel all thoughts that make you sad. Happiness has little to do with what we have; everything with what we think.

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