Are you at Peace?

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.
— Lao Tzu

Change, becoming better.

“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.” ~Dr. Anthony Robins

Too many laws…

"Good people don't need laws to tell them to act responsibly... and bad people will find a way around the laws."
--Plato

Its amazing how true principals never age with time.....

 

Developing Self-Reliance (1951)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9iflUfYRTc&feature=player_embedded
Takeaway: “It’s hard work to become self-reliant, but these are the steps: Assume responsibility. Be informed. Know where you are going. Make your own decisions.”

Snap Out of It! (Emotional Balance) (1951)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhfYvODAD9w&feature=player_embedded
Takeaway: “It’s one thing to set high goals for yourself. It’s quite another to be emotionally upset each time you miss your goal.”

You and Your Work (1948)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEBizJWOoVM&feature=player_embedded
Takeaway: “Any job, pounding a plane or selling shoes, is as important as you make it. If you think it’s not important, whatever it is, you’ll soon become bored with it and do it poorly. To enjoy your work, you need to find something more than money. You need personal satisfaction, pride of accomplishment, a sense of importance to others, whether it’s a part-time job after school or a lifetime career.”

The Benefits of Looking Ahead (1950)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlVAwwI_qAE&feature=player_embedded
Takeaway: “To succeed in something, you have to have a purpose. And make plans for reaching it. And work at it all the time.”

Your Thrift Habits (1948)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWQsBnzUvkQ&feature=player_embedded
Takeaway: “When you want something hard enough, you can find ways to save for it.”

How Honest Are You? (1950)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAhOvZrRPT0&feature=player_embedded
Takeaway: “When you have a problem involving your own honesty it will help you to remember these three points. Know yourself: be sure of your intentions — the motives behind what you’re doing and saying. Find the truth: test it in the light of past experience and by checking it every way you can. And express the truth: make sure you say what you mean to say and make sure your meaning is clear to your listeners.”

Self-Conscious Guy (1951)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0LiWIypZM4&feature=player_embedded
Takeaway: “If I could become skillful, I wouldn’t be so scared of it…I’d forget about myself, and just think of doing it well.”

How to Keep A Job (1949)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV6QieHZT70&feature=player_embedded
Takeaway: “As long as times are good, there will be jobs for fellas who just barely do enough to get by. But to keep a job when the going gets rough, you need to insure your job — make yourself so valuable your employer can’t let you go.”

Act Your Age (1949)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7dSCbAQR5k&feature=player_embedded
Takeaway: “Different parts of our personalities grow at different rates.”

Mind Your Manners (1953)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PrVFlPV9tM&feature=player_embedded
Takeaway: “Everywhere you go your manners are with you, and they leave their mark. They help you feel sure of yourself too, and they make an impression on people — on everyone you meet.”

What to Do On a Date (1950)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WH4NWbPABw&feature=player_embedded
Takeaway: “There are lots of things to do on dates if you know how to look for them, if you plan them with the other person in mind, and if you really try to make sure each date is a good time.”

Better Use Of Leisure Time (1950)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH_gncP_5vc&feature=player_embedded
Takeaway: “A good use of leisure time should give you a change, should help you learn things, and it’s a good idea to have a long-range goal for your leisure time activities.”

The Man who thinks he can.

If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you thin you dare not, you don't.
If  you'd like to win, but think you can't
It's almost a cinch that you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you're lost,
For out on the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will;
It's all in the state of mind.

If you think you're outclassed, you are.
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But sooner or later the man who wins
Is the one who thinks he can.
~Walter D. Wintle

Ho`oponopono

‎"When I started practicing being honest with myself about my choices and my life, I realized that I am in control of my own happiness. This realization changed me. I actually started to really enjoy my life."   http://tinybuddha.com/blog/why-forgiveness-doesnt-work-and-how-to-change-that/

Which way do you face?

“Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.” ~Maori Prover

TRIALS

Are you applying the atonement and embracing change?

"Rather than simply passing through trials, we must allow trials to pass through us in ways that sanctify us."
--Elder Neil A Maxwell, "Enduring Well", April 1997 Ensign

Change, it is life.

Be grateful to all those people who told you no. It’s because of them that you managed to do it all yourself. ~Wayne Dyer

It is a truly scientific phenomenon that when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. ~ Wayne Dyer

You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now. ~ Wayne Dyer

Once you believe in yourself and see your soul as divine and precious, you’ll automatically be converted to a being who can create miracles. ~ Wayne Dyer

Dream, see, believe….

It’s not what you are that holds you back, It’s what you think you’re not. ~ Denis Waitley

Pain

the pain of the death of a loved one, the pain of the end of a relationship, and the pain of a child losing a teddy bear are no different. Pain is pain.

What makes you happy?

“No man chooses evil because it’s evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.” – Mary Wollstonecraft

Come unto yourself

I’ve learned that the hardest thing to do in life is to be yourself—to know, understand, and love yourself for everything you are. ~TinyBuddah

Happy Birthday America

We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice, and humanity forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them. Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. Our internal resources are great… We gratefully acknowledge, as signal instances of the Divine favor towards us, that His Providence would not permit us to be called into this severe controversy until we were grown up to our present strength, had been previously exercised in warlike operation, and possessed of the means of defending ourselves. With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.
—Declaration of Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms (July 6, 1775)

Life is Short….

“Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile.” – Mark Twain

Defend your rights

"If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner."  - Terry Goodkind

Learning is Independent

‘The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.’ ~Albert Einstein

Value

“What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.” ~ Edgar Z. Friedenberg

Spiritual Perception

“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle, or you can live as if everything is a miracle.” ~Albert Einstein

Our Nation?

"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation.  One is by the sword. The other is by debt."  - John Adams, 1826

Hope you had a great President’s Day!

• Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. -Woodrow Wilson
• We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. -Ronald Reagan
• In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. -Dwight Eisenhower
• There is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don’t care who gets the credit. -Ronald Reagan
• There is nothing wrong in America that can’t be fixed with what is right in America. -Bill Clinton
• Pessimism never won any battle. -Dwight Eisenhower
• Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth. -George Washington
• Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. -George Washington
• My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. -Herbert Hoover
• How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? -Harry Truman
• Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15. -Ronald Reagan
• How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg. -Abraham Lincoln
• Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. -Abraham Lincoln
• You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. -Woodrow Wilson
• Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly. -Thomas Jefferson
• What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog. -Dwight Eisenhower

Live Life

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ~Abraham Lincoln

Happiness

“There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.”

-Thich Nhat Hanh