The Road to Lifestyle

I was listening to Jim Rohn this morning on the way to the office...  My nuggets for today: "The same wall that keeps out disappointment keeps out happiness." "When the why gets powerful the how gets easy." AWESOME STUFF! Make it a great week! 

Two posts in ONE DAY after such a long absence?  Crazy, I know! But I've been reading Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays and one passage just stuck out to me. I've read it over and over and over again... From his Essays First Series (1841) ... "Self-Reliance" ... "Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say 'I think,' 'I am,' but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less. Its nature is satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the ...

Sometimes we simply need to be reminded... "The key is that when you do run aground, instead of beating yourself up for being such a "failure," remember that there are no failures in life. There are only results."  - Tony Robbins

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Hello All! I am still here! :) I have been studying copywriting, painting, teaching, creating! Busy, Busy! I read the following quote in a customer review for Dan Kennedy's "How to Create Personality in Copy" and I LOVED it so I had to share: "Being plain is like being a commodity and lowers your value. Developing a personality that people can love/hate/respect sets you light years ahead of your peer group and competitors." - Mike Crow, Millionaire Inspector Community Like Pharrell said on a recent episode of The Voice :   "We need more different people in the world. The same is lame." BE DIFFERENT! That is all! :)

My husband read me the "Two-Minute PersonalityTest" by Jonathan Safran Foer at your restaurant yesterday.   It made us think, and laugh... :) This morning I was driving to work and saw an older gentleman in his pajamas on his hands and knees in his front yard.   I thought he might be looking for something and kept driving.   I thought about Jonathan's words, "What's the kindest thing you almost did?” And then I thought to myself, I just have to know. I turned around and drove back.     He was crawling toward his house.      I parked, got out of my car and said, "Sir, are you OK?" He told me he could not stand up.   I walked over to him and put my arms under his arms and lifted him up.   He said he just needed to get his feet under him (don't we all?). :) I stood him up and he said he was good.   I insisted that I help him get inside.   We walked back to the house slowly and I steadied him...