Toxic relationships poison your body, mind, soul and environment. Similar to quitting any bad habit (drinking, smoking, gluten, gambling …) every day you will start to feel healthier, more relaxed, peaceful, empowered, and most importantly loved (by yourself) … you will look back and be thankful you said “ENOUGH”.
Author: Dr. Deirdre Cavener
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Daily Quote
Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. – Vince Lombardi
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Note from the Universe 01232014
Yep. They’re different. Very different. And no matter how hard they try, they’ll never be able to see all that you see, do all that you do, or know all that you know.
That’s why you were needed. That’s how much you cared.
I.O.U.
The Universe
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The Present
Imagine there is a bank that credits your account every morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank deletes whatever part you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course!
Each of us has such a bank. Its name is TIME. Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft.
Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours.
There is no going back. There is no drawing against the “tomorrow.” You must live in the present on today’s deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness, and success!
The clock is running. Make the most of today.
To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.
To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the train.
To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident.
To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics.
Treasure every moment that you have! And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time.
And remember that time waits for no one.
Friends make you smile and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share a word of praise, and they always want to open their heart to us.
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That’s why it’s called,
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Instructions For Life
- Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
- Memorize your favorite poem.
- Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have, or loaf all you want.
- When you say, “I love you,” mean it.
- When you say, “I’m sorry,” look the person in the eye.
- Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
- Believe in love at first sight.
- Never laugh at anyone’s dreams. People who don’t have dreams don’t have much.
- Love deeply and passionately. You may get hurt, but it’s the only way to live life completely.
- In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
- Don’t judge people by their relatives, or by the life they were born into.
- Teach yourself to speak slowly but think quickly.
- When someone asks you a question you don’t want to answer, smile and ask, “Why do you want to know?”
- Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
- Call your mother.
- Say, “bless you” when you hear someone sneeze.
- When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
- Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, Respect for others, Responsibility for all your actions.
- Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
- When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
- Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
- Marry a person you love to talk to. As you get older, his/her conversational skills will be even more important.
- Spend some time alone.
- Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
- Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Read more books. Television is no substitute.
- Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
- Trust in God but lock your car.
- A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for yourlife. Do all you can to create a tranquil, harmonious home.
- In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
- Don’t just listen to what someone is saying. Listen to why they are saying it.
- Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve some immortality.
- Be gentle with the earth.
- Pray or meditate. There’s immeasurable power in it.
- Never interrupt when you are being flattered.
- Mind your own business.
- Don’t trust anyone who doesn’t close his/her eyes when you kiss.
- Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
- If you make a lot of money, put it to use helping others while you are living. It is wealth’s greatest satisfaction.
- Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
- Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
- Live with the knowledge that your character is your destiny.
- Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
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Choose How You Start Your Day Tomorrow
Michael is the kind of guy you love to meet. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say.
When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, “If I were any better, I would be twins!”
He was a natural motivator.
If an employee was having a bad day, Michael was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.
Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Michael and asked him, “I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time.
How do you do it?”
Michael replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today.
You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or, I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.
Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or, I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.
”Yeah, right, it’s not that easy,” I protested.
”Yes, it is,” Michael said. “Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It’s your choice how you live your life.”
I reflected on what Michael said. Soon hereafter, I left the tower industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.
Several years later, I heard that Michael was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Michael was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back. I saw Michael about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied. “If I were any better, I’d be twins.
Wanna see my scars?”
I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.
”The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon to be born daughter, “ Michael replied. “Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or, I could choose to die. I chose to live.”
”Weren’t you scared? Did you lose consciousness?” I asked.
Michael continued, “…the paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read “he’s a dead man. I knew I needed to take action.”
”What did you do?” I asked.
”Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me,” said Michael.
”She asked if I was allergic to anything. “Yes, I replied.” The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, “Gravity.”
Over their laughter, I told them, “I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.”
Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.
Attitude, after all, is everything.
”Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Matthew 6:34
After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
