Favorite Inspirational Quotes

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you chose for you will become like them.

W. Clement Stone

If this is true, then I had better get my act together.  I live in a cluttered, unfinished environment.  Always one more home improvement project.  I work at home as well.

As for friends, they are online workers, mostly.  So that seems to bear out.  I work at home online and so do most every friend I  have.  Guess that means it’s my environment I must work on.

Maybe the unfinished environment is the reason I have so many projects started but not completed.  Maybe the clutter is why I jump from thing to thing or maybe it’s the other way around.  I jump form thing to thing with clutter as a result.

This is certainly an interesting thought when I know that so much of success relies on focus.  I’m not focusing if I am jumping around.  So maybe finishing those household projects and focusing on just a few things every day will bring me the success I seek.

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Set your sights high, the higher the better.  Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now.  Realize that nothing is too good.  Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.

Eileen Caddy

There’s one thing for sure that this inspirational quote reminds us of and that is that we should expect the most wonderful things now.  I am guilty, and I suspect most of us are, of putting off my expectations to the future.  I’m working hard on goals that I expect to pay off in the future.  Why can’t I have wonderful things now?

Perhaps expectation is the key.  If I expect wonderful things, and act and think with that expectation, seems they are more likely to happen.  At the very least, with my attention towards the expectation (what I am expecting), I’m more likely to notice the wonderful things going on around me.  Yes?

There certainly is nothing wrong with setting my sights higher either.  OK, I might be disappointed at not reaching that lofty goal.  Then again, I could be ecstatic at reaching it.  What I do know is it will be a more fun and a brighter life living with the promise of high goals and the expectation.

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The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created - created first in the mind and will, created next in activity.  The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating.  The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.

Deborah James

When I was young, the normal choices for women were pretty well limited to a handful.  You could be a stay at home mom, you could become a school teacher, or you could be a nurse.  About the only other type of “acceptable” work was being some type of secretary or clerk.  And this really wasn’t all that long ago.

I chose to become an engineer, a very unlikely choice for women.  Only 2% of all engineers were women.  I don’t think the numbers are much better today. I even had to put with criticism for my choice.

I made lots of mistakes but I chose to create a different future for me than was the normal choice at the time.  If you think about it, any choices we have now in the present are the result of a future we created in the past.  And the choices that I will have in the future will be the result of the type of future I create now.  I decide what type of future I want, determine to carry it out, and take the steps to create that future.  I am again making my path to the future.

Jim Rohn has a saying, “Become a millionaire.  Not for the money you make but for what you become in the process.”

I think that is what James means here in the last sentence.  As you take action, fail and learn, and then finally meet success, you cannot help but to be changed by the process.  Sometimes this changes the destination as well.  Isn’t it wonderful?

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