A place to start ~ 01/01/2017

A place to start and a plan to formulate with small steps of action will indeed create a result.

This is my passion, to make a difference, to make you think, to give your mind a peaceful place to go and either ponder, or comment, or dismiss  My goal is to make you smile, here online.

That is indeed my intention.

I wake up each morning with intent to make this day the best it can be for me, and for others.

With gratitude I step out each morning with a tune in my heart, a smile in my mind and gratefulness in my spirit.  My only prayer each day to the creator above is a few simple words the most important of them... Thank You!

My words that I live with in my spirit I will share with you in the coming days and weeks but let me start with how I describe success.  It is a quote that I have lived with in my spirit for years.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What is success?

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!”

What a simple way to define success!  In a world full of pressure and anxiety and stress we should all be able to define success in the terms above.  How little we stress if we wrapped these words around our intentions.

Daily we should embrace this
Monthly we should read it
Yearly we would reap the benefits from it.

Happy New to all who pass through this post and I hope you return

Victor V. Yakin
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Sunday Restoration and Emerson

I am a big fan of Ralph Waldo Emerson, many of you that read me often understand this.  This Sunday I share some positive thoughts from him.  I truly hope you enjoy....

Enjoy your day and always strive to be the best you can be!

Always leave a trail of kindness and of love

leave a trail of goodness and inspiration

My favorite quote

What a gift to leave behind

What a goal to strive for

Write it every day 

Trust in this truth every hour

live this truth each minute

and believe each second that this is so

Once you make it indeed the universe conspires to make it happen

just decide

As I know decide each and everyday to send a smile your way : )

Victor Yakin

victoryakin@gmail.com

www.victoryakin.com

Stretching our beliefs on Success ~ Quote of the Day ~ Video of the Day ~ Scripture of the Day : ) 02/17/12

"I would rather be ashes than dust.

I would rather that my spark should burn out in a

brilliant blaze than that it should be stifled by dry-rot.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in

magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

The proper function of man is to live, not exist.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

I shall use my time."

: 0 )  Jack London

Man was indeed designed to live, to make things, to care and to listen.  This quote speaks of that function and design.

Would we all not want to blaze a trail.

Leave behind some kind of legacy or improved social condition.

Maybe it indeed is just a garden that beautified our world.

Maybe we raised a child to do great things like be an awesome parent to their children.

Or maybe just maybe we want to make a difference in a big enough way that even just one life has breathed easier because we lived.

We created.  We designed.  We cared.  We loved.  We smiled.

Maybe just maybe Ralph Waldo Emerson had a point when we designed that work called success.

Enjoy your day and keep smiling as smiles are shared with you here today. : )

Video of the Day

Success by Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ a video 

Bible verse of the Day 

Proverbs 16: 7

 When a man’s ways are pleasing to the LORD, 
He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Have a blessed day everyone :)

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Faith, in our design and our purpose

The grass withers, the flower fades:

but the word of

our God shall stand forever.

~Isaiah 40:8 KJV 2000

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" We cling to our own point of view,

as if everything depended on it.

Yet our opinions have no permanence;

like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

~Chaung Tzu

Oh how our point of view can matter so.  It can mean everything to us of course but it too over time and experience shall change.

The things we cared about as a child changed as we became an adult. They same things that were important changed once again as we became a parent.

As the seasons run by us and the winters turn to springs one thing we can be certain of our faith in God.

Now I know that I share with you my belief and faith and it is not to lead you to that it is truly just me sharing.

I believe that faith and spiritualism is a personal thing and only you can be lead into your beliefs you can never be dragged there.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for

the evidence of things not seen.

~Hebrews 11 : 1

Just because we don't see the wind does not mean it is not present.

We see the effects of the wind.

We see the effects of God and his creations.

A passage from Ralph Waldo Emerson from his essay Nature:

In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, -- no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, -- my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, -- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part and parcel of God.

Indeed how how nature returns us to source.

The roar and sound of the ocean waves.

The peace and tranquillity of the forest.

Nature how intricate its design and how intricate is our design.

Built with two legs and feet to carry us.

Built with two arms and hands to hold.

Built with one heart to pump life and to embrace love.

Designed to have two eyes to see, two hears to listen and one mouth to speak.

How intricate its design.  Built for love and making a difference.

Yet for most its a body built to kill and destroy, overflowing with the ego to have more, control more and possess.

Nature does not posses anything.

It just exists for our pleasure and eco system.

It does not hate but can express fury.

Nature how impressive and full of God is thee.

Explore your faith.  Understand and learn more about what our design and build can be put to better use.

Love each other.

Embrace laughter.

Share that simple sincere power of the smile.

Just as I do with you here, today.

As always smiles sent to you this day .... : )

10/16/11

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