TIPS OF BETTER LIVING

Rise and pray every day: "Again today, dear God, I commit and trust my life and way to you. I'm available. Please use me to be as Jesus to every life I touch."

"Don't sweat the small stuff."


Remember these simple sentences: "I was wrong." "I am sorry." "Please forgive me." "Thank you." Say them whenever needed and say "I love you" often—whether needed or not.


Come apart and rest a while before you come apart—stress is a killer.


Remember, "Nothing changes if nothing changes."


Don't nurse grudges: "Failing to forgive is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."


Carpe diem. Seize the day. "Opportunity comes to pass
—not to pause."


Quit the blame-game—"it's choice, not chance, that determines destiny."


Control your thinking or your thinking will control you. "What the mind dwells on the body acts on."


Invest your life in a worthwhile cause by having a noble purpose for which to live—a purpose that is bigger than yourself for which to live—one that will help make your world a better place in which to live.


Be a positive realist. You will always see what you are looking for: "Two men look out the same prison bars. One sees mud, the other stars."


The greatest abilities are availability, dependability and responsibility.


"There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience."


"Smooth seas never make skillful sailors."


When God is silent. "I believe in the sun even when it isn't shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when he is silent."


Cry when needed. "Every unshed tear is a prism through which all of life's hurts are distorted."


Laugh a lot. It's still the best medicine.


Remember, "The bumps are what we climb on."


Fear not. At least 95 percent of the things we fear never
happen. Trust God for the other five percent.


Have faith and put God first with your time, talents, and tithe.


"Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun" (Psalm 37:3-6, NIV).

TO BE A MAN

When you can rise above your
fears to conquer every challenge
that comes to those who dare
to climb the highest heights;
When you can keep on getting up each
time you've failed or been knocked down;
When you can see your greatest strength
lies in your faith and gentleness,
your greatest courage in admitting
your faults, and with God's help
strive to overcome them;
When you can accept responsibility
for resolving all your hurts and break
the chain from generations past;
When you can know and show a father's
love and feel with all your heart;
When you can love yourself, others
and God more than earthly gain,
or fame and recognition, you will,
my son, be then a man –
and indeed a great man at that.

DON'T QUIT

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit…
Rest if you must—but don’t you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won if he’d stuck it out.
Don’t give up, though the pace seems slow
You may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up
When he might have captured the victor's cup,
And he learned too late, when the night slipped
down,
How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are.
It may be near when it seems afar.
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit,
It's when things go wrong
That you mustn't quit.

TIME MANAGEMENT

Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.

Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things.

Don’t mistake movement for achievement. It’s easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?

Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.

Sometimes you need to stay in touch but be out of reach.

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.

We can no more afford to spend major time on minor things than we can to spend minor time on major things.

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Learn how to say no. Don’t let your mouth overload your back.

Time is the best-kept secret of the rich.

ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING

The process of human change begins within us. We all have tremendous potential. We all desire good results from our efforts. Most of us are willing to work hard and to pay the price that success and happiness demand.

Each of us has the ability to put our unique human potential into action and to acquire a desired result. But the one thing that determines the level of our potential, that produces the intensity of our activity, and that predicts the quality of the result we receive is our attitude.

Attitude determines how much of the future we are allowed to see. It decides the size of our dreams and influences our determination when we are faced with new challenges. No other person on earth has dominion over our attitude. People can affect our attitude by teaching us poor thinking habits or unintentionally misinforming us or providing us with negative sources of influence, but no one can control our attitude unless we voluntarily surrender that control.

No one else “makes us angry.” We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They merely put our attitude to a test. If we select a volatile attitude by becoming hostile, angry, jealous or suspicious, then we have failed the test. If we condemn ourselves by believing that we are unworthy, then again, we have failed the test.

If we care at all about ourselves, then we must accept full responsibility for our own feelings. We must learn to guard against those feelings that have the capacity to lead our attitude down the wrong path and to strengthen those feelings that can lead us confidently into a better future.

If we want to receive the rewards the future holds in trust for us, then we must exercise the most important choice given to us as members of the human race by maintaining total dominion over our attitude. Our attitude is an asset, a treasure of great value, which must be protected accordingly. Beware of the vandals and thieves among us who would injure our positive attitude or seek to steal it away.

Having the right attitude is one of the basics that success requires. The combination of a sound personal philosophy and a positive attitude about ourselves and the world around us gives us an inner strength and a firm resolve that influences all the other areas of our existence.

To Your Success,

4 STEPS TO ENJOY EVERY MOMENT

All too often people take life, and all of the great things that it offers, for granted. People realize how much something means to them only after it is taken away. There is a reason for this; it is difficult to appreciate things in life because it is difficult to picture yourself without them.

An example will help to explain this point more clearly. Imagine sitting at a table nearly 100 feet long. On this table are hundreds of different foods.
Main courses, deserts, drinks, and more cover every inch of the table. You are all alone, and all that the table offers is for you.
Now try and not take this food for granted. Try to appreciate it like it
will be gone tomorrow. It isn’t easy. It is hard to not take this food for granted when there is so much in front of you.
This example can be transferred to many things in life. One may see that
same point in life itself. People say live life to the fullest, and to
appreciate every day you have. This is difficult for the majority of people because, just the like the food, there are so many days left. When you know you’ll be around for 40 more years, it is hard to think about today being your last day.
Don’t lose hope, there is an answer. It’s called the Step Back. This quick system will help you to appreciate your life, and all that is offers.
Moments filled with happiness and excitement will no longer be unappreciated and taken for granted.

1. REALIZE YOU’RE IN THE MOMENT
The first step is to realize that you are in the middle of something good.
It could be a beautiful day on your family vacation, or a perfect afternoon with your children. You are the judge of what moments you’d like to appreciate.

2. TAKE A STEP BACK
This is the main part of the system. Once you realize you are experiencing a moment you’d like to have last forever, stop yourself for a moment and take a Step Back.
Take yourself away from the situation. Take a short walk, a quick break, or simply close your eyes.
Once you are removed from the situation, think about it as if it happened in the past.
Picture how happy you were, the details of the scene, and the others around you. Feel the emotions you felt, see and hear the faces and sounds. Remember how much you enjoyed the time, and how much you’d like to enjoy it again.

3. MAKE YOUR REENTRY
Once you feel the happiness of the moment, think about this; it’s no longer in the past, it’s right now! You just thought about how great you felt in that past moment, and now you can live it in the present.
You just appreciated the current moment by looking back on the situation.
Once you are in the middle of the moment again, remember…

4. ENJOY YOURSELF
This will be a moment that, like all others, will eventually pass. With this in mind, really let it sink in. Take a look around, and realize you are in the middle of something great.
Taking a Step Back every now and then will help you appreciate life. No
longer will you be one who takes life for granted. You will make happy
moments happier, and you will also help to make them last forever.

INTERNATIONAL PROVERBS

“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.” – Arab Proverb

“A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush.” – English Proverb

“A broken hand works, but not a broken heart.” – Persian Proverb

“A cat has nine lives.” – Proverb of Unknown Origin

“A closed mouth catches no flies.” – Italian Proverb

“A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.” – German Proverb

“A courtyard common to all will be swept by none.” – Proverb, Chinese

“A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master.” – Russian Proverb

“A drink precedes a story.” – Irish Proverb

“A drowning man is not troubled by rain.” – Persian Proverb

“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.” – William Blake Proverbs of Hell (1790)

“A forest is in an acorn.” – Proverb of Unknown Origin

“A friend in need is a friend indeed” – English Proverb

“A friend’s eye is a good mirror.” – Irish Proverb

“A good denial, the best point in law.” – Irish Proverb

“A good husband is healthy and absent.” – Japanese Proverb

“A hard beginning maketh a good ending.” – John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

“A healthy man is a successful man.” – French Proverb

“A hedge between keeps friendship green.” – French Proverb

“A hen is heavy when carried far.” – Irish Proverb

“A hound’s food is in its legs.” – Irish Proverb

“A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel.” – Portuguese Proverb

“A hungry man is an angry man.” – English Proverb

“A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.” – French Proverb

“A little too late, is much too late.” – German Proverb

“A loan though old is not gift.” – Hungarian Proverb

“A lock is better than suspicion.” – Irish Proverb

“A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man.” – Turkish Proverb

“A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal.” – Yiddish Proverb

“A man may well bring a horse to the water, but he cannot make him drink.” – John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

“A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.” – Yiddish Proverb

“A monkey never thinks her baby’s ugly.” – Haitian Proverb

“A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners.” – Irish Proverb

“A penny for your thoughts.” – John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

“A penny saved is a penny gained.” – Scottish Proverb

“A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.” – English Proverb

“A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener.” – Hungarian Proverb

“A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.” – Chinese proverb

“A silent mouth is melodious.” – Irish Proverb

“A single Russian hair outweighs half a Pole.” – Traditional Russian Saying

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” – Greek Proverb

“A soft answer turneth away wrath but grievous words stir up anger.
Bible” – Proverbs 151.

“A son is a son till he gets him a wife,
But a daughter’s a daughter the rest of your life.” – Proverb of Unknown Origin

“A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of
wisdom.” – Welsh Proverb

“A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars.” – Yiddish Proverb

“A teacher is better than two books.” – German Proverb

“A thief believes everybody steals.” – Proverb of Unknown Origin

“A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.” – Chinese proverb

“A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.” – French Proverb

“A trade not properly learned is an enemy.” – Irish Proverb