Wishing You A Few Moments of Inspiration

This page is to give us things to read that inspire, lift us up, encourage us, tickle us, remind us and relearn old lessons. Several videos are attached. To really enjoy the videos, consider: setting some quiet time aside, use the Full Screen feature and press the pause button when you need it. 

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Gil Garcia

"I cannot give you the formula for success,but I can give you the formula for failure--which is:Try to please everybody."

Herbert Bayard Swope          

"Keeping things in perspective is not always easy, especially when you're worried about what others think."

Gil Garcia

 Click the Photo for Ten Minute Video: "Peaceful Concentration" (Note: the first 1-2 minutes is silent with birds singing.) Relax and enjoy.

Today's Readings

"I am not what I own."

"Quotes I Need"

 Click on the Phto for: Ten-Minute Video, 'Relaxing Aquarium" 

The more you say, the less people remember. François Fénelon

It requires less character to discover the faults of others than is does to tolerate them.
                                                 J. Petit Senn

Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Click Photo for Dramatization Video: "The Hospital Window" 

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
Jonathan Edwards

How much pain have cost us the evils that have never happened.
Thomas Jefferson

"Let thy words be few." Ecclesiastes 5:2

Click Photo for "The Serenity Prayer" video (Christian version)

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now    and do it."

 Click Photo for Five Minute Video: "Watefall"

The Tone of the Voice
 
It's not so much what you say,
As the manner in which you say it;
It's not so much the language you use,
As the tone in which you convey it.
 
"Come here", I sharply said,
And the child cowered and wept.
"Come here", I said, he looked and smiled,
And straight to my lap he crept.
 
Words may be mild and fair,
But the tone may pierce like a dart;
Words may be soft as the summer air,
But the tone may break my heart;
 
For words come from the mind
Grow by study and art,
But tone leaps from the inner self,
Revealing the state of heart.
 
Whether you know it or not,
Whether you mean or care,
Gentleness, kindness, love and hate,
Envy, anger are there.
 
Then, would you quarrels avoid--
And peace and love rejoice?
Keep anger not only out of your words,
Keep it out of your voice.
 
     (Author unknown)

Click Photo for Two-Minute Video  "Playing with the Kids"

Everybody's Birthday is Special! Especially Yours! Take time to laugh, eat cake and ice cream, sing Happy Birthday and blow out the candles after making your wish! Because Everybody's Birthday is Special Especially Yours!

          Click Photo for               Pachebel's Canon in D

"Best Piece of Advice"

I often ask successful people what was the best piece of advice they ever got from a parent.

What words of wisdom carried them forward as they achieved their personal and professional goals? Responses such as "Don't take anything for granted", "You have to work hard and struggle for success" and "It takes money to make money" are among the most common. I posed this same question to Wendy, a woman I met at a luncheon yesterday. Her quick response was "Grow up. Move out." That was her Dad's mantra to her ever since she was a very young child.

Wendy had a good, loving relationship with her father. He is no longer with us yet his sage word of advice echo in Wendy's conscious every day. The wisdom has changed a bit over the years to 'Grow up. Move on." as Wendy is now a very successful financial planner and the Mother to two beautiful children. "Grow Up. Move out." encouraged Wendy to take full responsibility for her life. She allowed her immature thoughts to grow up without fear and self-doubt while maintaining a playfully creative approach to life's challenges and opportunities. Wendy never empowered her Inner Critic, the part of her that has the ability to hold her back. She always relied on her inner spirit, that strong powerful voice within her that is pure intuition and the birthplace of inspiration to guide her. Whenever choices had to be made, especially difficult ones, Wendy remembered her Dad's advice, "Grow Up. Move Out".

 Click Photo for movie:

"Second Mile"