Life is not Fair
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by, Corey Wells

Believe it or not…life is not fair. Occasionally the bad guy wins, people do play favorites, some good people die young, some people will let you down and not everyone is honest. While we can accept this, it shouldn’t stop us from dreaming big, working hard and doing what is right.

Sometimes it’s who you know and not what you know that matters. It won’t matter that you are the better qualified or the obvious choice. Some will always select people who they personally like better than you. Others who you rely on will let you down. The is especially hard to accept if you are someone who always keeps their word and does what is right. If you’re like that, you automatically think others should too. We could have all saved ourselves a lot of emotional stress if we’d had known all this before we venture out into the real world.

If we’d have learned the way the world worked a young age, we’d have never invested so much in the opinions others have about us. We’d have realized that it’s simply not advantageous to always try to please others. However, it’s still important to keep in mind that life is worth living. The secret is to always keep an optimistic outlook. You simply have to learn how to deal with the negative while seeking out the positive. Once you’ve learned this lesson, you will have the ability to still go out and enjoy a full and rewarding existence no matter how unfair life treats you.

Today’s Quotes

1. It’s not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one’s thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.
   Isabel Colgate

2. It is the characteristic of genius to be hopeful and inspiring.
   Harriet Martineau
3. It’s the knack for noticing specific things that enlarges our awareness of the world.
   Julie Cameron
4. The only real security is the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.
   Audrey Sutherland
5. I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
   Katharine Hepburn
6. Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
   Mary Baker Eddy
7. May your heart be light. May friends hug you tight. May your day be delicious from morning till night.
   Unknown
8. Faith and doubt both are needed – not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
   Lillian Smith

Making Changes That Stick
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by, Corey Wells

Once you’ve decided to make a lasting change in your life, you need to accurately identify the reasons that are motivating this change and why the change is important to you. This is key because motivation is sometimes fleeting. It comes and goes without warning. One minute it’s there, the next it’s gone. In order to make lasting changes, you must control this motivation.

This can be accomplished by reaffirming your motivation each and every day. With daily reaffirmation, you are in effect renewing the promise you made to yourself to institute a change. This is something that should be included in your daily ritual….take a shower, brush your teeth, reaffirm your motivation, etc.

It often helps to relive previous successes by remembering the feeling of accomplishment you had when you succeeded in the past. Also, write down a plan for making this change. By putting your plan in writing, you create a continual reminder of what needs to be done.

Making a lasting change requires both motivation and commitment. When your motivation starts to fade, take out your written plan and review it. Try to renew the excitement you had when initially decide a change was needed. Acknowledge that the change will promote your personal growth. By doing this, the change you’re planning today will eventually become habit later on.

Today’s Quotes

1. Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
   Zora Neale Hurston

2. Contentment is not fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.
   Unknown
3. Happiness is enhanced by others, but does not depend upon others.
   Unknown
4. God has no hands but our hands and no tongue but our tongue.
   Anne Johnson Flint
5. Drawing attention to the contributions of women provides for both girls and boys the positive role models they need in society and gives them a more realistic perspective of what women’s lives have been like throughout history.
   Pat Hunter-Williams
6. There might be false starts and do-overs. You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.
   Jane Pauley
7. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.
   Mary W. Stewart
8. To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
   Margaret Thatcher