Happy Thursday and welcome to the last few days of 2010. The old year is almost gone, maybe not forgotten but gone just the same.
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The past few days I have shared with you some thoughts on making this a year that you design instead of accepting the year as it is designed for you or to refrain from living by default. So much of this year is your choice that is more than my theory it is a fact.
Some quotes designed for you this coming year:
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.
~Edith Lovejoy Pierce
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We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential.
~Ellen Goodman
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Recipe for a Happy New Year
(Author Unknown)
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Take twelve fine, full-grown months; see that these are thoroughly free from old memories of bitterness, rancor and hate, cleanse them completely from every clinging spite; pick off all specks of pettiness and littleness; in short, see that these months are freed from all the past—have them fresh and clean as when they first came from the great storehouse of Time.
Cut these months into thirty or thirty-one equal parts.
Do not attempt to make up the whole batch at one time
(so many persons spoil the entire lot this way)
but prepare one day at a time.
Into each day put equal parts of faith, patience, courage, work
(some people omit this ingredient and so spoil the flavor of the rest),
hope, fidelity, liberality, kindness, rest
(leaving this out is like leaving the oil out of the salad dressing— don’t do it),
prayer, meditation,
and one well-selected resolution.
Put in about one teaspoonful of good spirits, a dash of fun, a pinch of folly, a sprinkling of play, and a heaping cupful of good humor.
So I leave you to ponder on these quotes, do with them what you feel will make the most sense. Some you may want to print and read again, some you may just want to sleep upon. But take them and do as you wish. These are my Thursday Theories for you.
Tomorrow I want to list all of my steps that I laid out the past few Fridays. I hope you review them. New Years Day I want to lay out my credo and what is chosen for me as my creed. My belief if you will. I will give my commentary on it and I hope you enjoy it and come back on 01/01/11 and take it in. This day is a travel day for me but I will post it just the same.
May your smiles be wide and deep.
May your prayers be lifted up to the heavens.
May you take the time to design your 2011.
A year to focus on what we have and be grateful.
A year to focus on what we need and not be greedy.
A year to focus on making a difference and have faith that what we do and share will make that difference for someone when the chance and opportunity arises.
It will and take that time to share that smile, sincerely and deeply.
May your smiles abound.
May your joy lift another spirit.
May you stay hungry and stay foolish!
May your heart be warmed because it always was.
Smiles sent your way this day and always!
Happy Thursday everyone! : )
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