Stephen Covey

If life were a painting, and you were an artist;
What would you paint?
-Stephen Covey

Each morning when I open my eyes

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be.   Clip On What Makes Life Worthwhile CLICK HERE     Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it. – Groucho Marx

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Once an attitude starts the cycle spinning, it tends to keep spinning in the same direction, feeding upon itself. You also tend to select things out of your environment that reinforces your initial attitude and to ignore things that go against it. -Michael Monroe Kiefer M.S. The Powermind System

Attitude is self-actualizing. Once we choose an attitude (consciously or unconsciously) we will focus on parts of our environment that validate that attitude. This is the key to the law of attraction. It isn’t that we “draw in” that stuff that we focus on. It means that we take notice to the stuff that validates our attitude and we dismiss what doesn’t.

We have all been in situations where people just want to be angry. No matter what the situation or what the outcome is, they find a reason to be angry. We all also know those people that always seem to be happy. Every situation in their life seems to bring them some sort of joy. These are also the people that we want to be around….it becomes infectious.

Your brain is constantly trying to figure out what is important information and what isn’t. Your attitude tells your unconscious what is important to you. So if you have a bad attitude, that is what your brain focuses on, things that give you a bad attitude. To change your reality, you must first change your attitude or you will never be able to acknowledge the change in your life.

Your attitude dictates what we will experience throughout the day. This means that when you spend time insuring that your attitude is focused correctly, the energy spent is paid back ten fold.

Today, I will insure that my attitude is focused on where I want it to be.

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If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place; it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there? -Karen Hall and Jerry Stahl, Northern Exposure, Soapy Sanderson, 1990

Making every day count simply requires us to be present in the moment. When we are present and not focused on what could happen or what just happened, we are able to make better decisions. When we are not tethered by the past or the future we are able to make the best decisions in the moment.

The truth is that we only need to look at our surroundings to judge our worth. I am not speaking about material wealth but how our surroundings react to our presence. Is it better because we were in it? Did we make a positive impact or did we simply drain the energy out of others? That is the measure of a man. The rest is just conjecture.

Today, I will stay in the moment. I will leave this day better than when I found it.

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“That much gathers more is true on every plane of existence and that loss leads to greater loss is equally true.” Charles F. Haanel The Master Key System

We have all been on a roll. Everything seems to go our way, nothing can go wrong. We have all been stuck in a rut. Everything that can possibly go wrong, does. Even gravity seems to join in the conspiracy. Both these two examples show that situations seem to somehow attract like situations.

What does this mean? We need to learn to create synergy. When we build winning environments, winning situations present themselves. When we build losing environments, losing situations find their way into our lives. When we learn to build these environments, we learn to live a life of amazement and enchantment.

Today, I will build an environment where much gathers more.

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Dalai Lama Quote

I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace.

~ Dalai Lama

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We lift ourselves by our thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere – your ideal of what you long to attain – the ideal of health, efficiency, success. -Orison Swett Marden (1850 – 1924)

Most of us live up to our glass ceiling and no farther. Although we are capable of more, we have trained ourselves that we are only able to accomplish what we see. The strange paradox is that, by not striving for more we validate our inability. We strengthen our belief of our inadequacies by not striving to surpass them.

By seeking more of life, by demanding more of our lives, we break through the glass ceiling that has kept us from having more from life. By seeing just how big life can be, we start to see just how big we can be. By continually surrounding ourselves with others who seek to be more than they are, we start to see how we can become more. We start to climb through the hole we have created by smashing the ceiling.

Today, I will imagine how my life can be better. I will strive to move in that direction.

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If you don’t wake up tomorrow,…if it turns out that today is your last day on earth; would you be proud of what you’ve done in this life? Cause if you ain’t,…you better start gettin’ square. -Taken from the movie Legion

As humans, one of our blessings as well as one of our curses is a sense of time. We have an understanding of tomorrow. This means that we know that there will be another 24 hours that follows the one we just got out of. The curse in that for most of us is that, as we finish up our day, we pile stuff into tomorrow to do. It’s as if we are cleaning and we stick the stuff we decide not to do in a closet to go through tomorrow. The closet continually piles up with things unsaid or undone. The reality is that tomorrow never comes and it gets easier and easier to push stuff off that in all reality, will never get done.

What kind of a life would you live if you left nothing unsaid or undone? How would you sleep? How glorious would your life be? What would the world be like if everyone lived their life as though it could be their last day on Earth? When we take an honest look at the things both undone and unsaid, we see that those are the things that hold our life back. Those are the things that keep us from experiencing everything that life could be. It isn’t about how we didn’t get this or was kept from that. It is about opportunities not taken, and words not shared.

Today, I will live my life as though today were all that I had.

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Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. -Ralph Marston

Suggesting that excellence is a skill is like putting the cart before the horse. We develop and attitude of excellence and the skill follows. Even if we practice and develop a skill, if we have a bad attitude towards it, excellence can’t be reached.

There are few things that attitude won’t effect. Having a attitude of excellence changes our entire trajectory in life. When we allow ourselves to filter our life through excellence, the world takes on a different flavor. Our colors become brighter, or step….lighter. Only by choosing how we want to experience our day can we have any control over its outcome.

Today, I will chose the filter I wish to view my life through.

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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -Albert Einstein

Many people look at their lives and miss the magic in them. Are you stuck in the trance caused by the sound of crying babies and honking horns? Are you missing the music that these sounds create? What would these sounds be like to a person that desired a child with all of their heart or had to walk to work every morning? It is our expectations and our viewpoint that continually rob us from the ability to see the beauty in life everyday.

It is a struggle at first to stay focused on the miracle of life. We tend to want to sink back down in the mud and get dirty. This doesn’t serve us or anyone around us. It is only by the constant struggle to stay conscious that we are truly allowed to see the world for what it is. It is only by thrusting our flag in the ground and shouting, “NO MORE,” That we are able to see the beauty all around us. When we force ourselves to see the beauty, and connection that is all around us, we begin a journey that is finally worth taking.

Today, I will begin the journey. I will work to see the wonder and beauty that is in the world.

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