Stepping forward ~ 01/02/17

Stepping forward and living past mistakes behind.  Why is it so many live with their mistakes.  Ponder on them, cry on them and dwell on them that many times they relive them.

Mistakes and failures should be treated as educational material.  A reference point not to be completely forgotten but a point to be labeled as history.  As Steve Jobs was quoted once you can't connect the dots going forward.

So learn from your mistakes and failures it is indeed an education if you will.  But dwell on them and you will soon find your living in quicksand or even deep mud which disables your future and enables frustration, anger, dismay.

We are soul's in body an energy created by our creator.  The source created us for purpose and perfection so if we are created in perfection why then are we disarrayed?

When a tire goes bald and winter comes only the careless continue on driving waiting for that disaster to happen.  Even a used snow tire is better than a bald snow tire.

However a person who lives with purpose plans and protect and executes a desired outcome that will keep them safe and moving forward.

Step forward into your purpose and even if you doubt you have a purpose it truly is not to be sad, miserable, downtrodden and regretful.

Step forward with a smile, with a positive  thought with a defined plan for success.  Like from yesterday's post that even one ... just one person's life has breathed easier because you have lived.

Stay happy, stay smiling and may your steps be defined for success today : )

Victor V Yakin

victoryakin@gmail.com

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
victoryakin@gmail.com

Saturday in Your Park of Change and Growth

We must all face changes, but truly we must grow from them.  If your not growing your dying so look forward to growth and embrace the changes that happen whether you like it or not.

Change and grow.

take the shot to grow and push forward

you will mistakes

you will rise again

you will keep growing

life is a great and priceless opportunity

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the journey is always better

it is evolving constantly 

the destination is just that

you have arrived

the journey is the learning aspect of growth and change

always something better 

is on its way 

enjoy the change 

and the growth from that change

as always this smile is meant for you : )

Victor Yakin

victoryakin@gmail.com

www.victoryakin.com

Tuesday Taking Over your Self Doubt

All to easy it is to stand in the way of confidence.  To disengage the mind from even the most common and routine knowledge that you are able.  That you were designed by the most high, our creator to be perfect.

So what is the reason for self doubt?

Why when perfection was the design from the very start do we doubt that we are able.

You are able. Never forget, never doubt just know you are able!

Your the author of your life

write your chapter

its not fiction 

always write your chapter

turn down the doubt 

and turn up 2 simple words

I CAN

add these 3 words

I AM ABLE

It's your mansion

It's your walk

It's your talk

It's your belief

Open your Window Opportunity !

That sums it up nicely 

Embrace your Challenge

Believe and Achieve 

Clear your Mind of Self Doubt

Smiles sent your way today and always : )

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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What do you truly know? ~ Quote of the Day ~ Video of the Day ~ Scripture of the Day : ) 02/13/12

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

: o )  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth be known we know very little.  I love the message that Steve Jobs gave to the graduation class in 2007 at Stanford University.

The message, at least part of the message was that you can not connect the dots looking forward. Try as you must you can only connect the dots looking backward in retrospect.

We all seem to want to see our future, know what we are about to do is the right thing, if not the right thing at least the right thing for us.  But we really don't know do we.  We have to look at the dots and how they connected in our life by looking in deep reflection.

Thats just the way it is.

He explains so truthfully that you have to follow your instinct, your gut, your faith in your being, in your creator and trust that what your about to do is for you own good and the good of others.

We don't know anything in life.  Sure we have our values, and our experience to help us through our life.  But we really don't understand the true acceptance and tolerance and love that we all should freely give and live with.

If we all knew that fact.  We would have little or no conflict and sadly we know this world, even our world has conflict and troubles that sadly flow our way.

But as I have said before, life is a series of waves, and you either learn how to ride the wave, or become part of the crash of the waves. It is always our choice and our preparation that makes this true.

So today, enjoy your life, be grateful for what you have been given.  Love like you never loved before the pure grace that flows your way.  Accept that things will not always go your way, and thats ok but truly what is important is how we handle the path that we walk upon.

Connect your dots, looking back you will and may the grace of God and love and tenderness guide you to a happy and joyous path.

Smiles to you this day : )

Video of the Day

Did you know.. Really Did you know?

Bible Quote of the Day 

“I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

Jeremiah 29:11

Have a blessed day everyone :)

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Quote of the day ~ Video of the Day ~ Scripture of the Day ~ How to Succeed : ) 01/04/2012

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career.

I've lost almost 300 games.

26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life.

And that is why I succeed.

~ Michael Jordan

The desire and the effort will turn a thought into success.  Having a big enough why, a large enough vision and a dream that is vivid makes all the difference.

From the start I brought to your attention the importance of having a new years need instead of calling it a new years resolution.

To me a resolution has room for failure and often the resolve is not strong enough to see it through.

But call this plan, this object that you want to see through a need.  Well a need is no longer a want its a must.

Tie in with your need the thought of the pain you would feel if you failed, the regret and the raw emotion can boil over to the point of making this need come true.

Break down your 'need' into small steps, small victories that you can look back at the dots you connected and realize that your on the path to success.

Don't give up... Don't ever give up.  Words that Jimmy V. of college basket ball fame spoke in the video that follows.

Don't ever give up....... Enjoy your day and keep smiling

Video of the Day

Jimmy V's Speech 'Don't Ever Give UP'

Scripture of the Day 

For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you, plans to give you hope and a future.

 Jeremiah 29:11

Have a great day and new year everyone from Make ME Smile Online

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