“When you can think

of yesterday

 without regret

and tomorrow

without fear,

you are near

contentment

~ Unknown ~

Life  is a series of lessons. Some easy, some profound. Others are painful, and others bring us great joy. When we learn our lessons the first time, rarely do we have to repeat them. The ones we do repeat can make us a better person.

 Make a list of the lesson you gave learned along the highway of life

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Say Goodbye to Retrograde !!!!!

“If you look back too much,

you will soon be

 headed that way”

~ Unknown ~

Keep moving forward and live a life with no regrets. Living a life deliberately means being joyful , spontaneous, and  willing to meet your destiny.

 Embrace the life you were meant and live moment by moment with wholehearted authenticity, honesty and integrity. That is why it is called the present! So many times we look backward, and talk about the good old days. Know that your best days are right now, and ahead of you.

 Live with intention!  Be intentional about the choices that you make, the way you spend your money, the relationships that you get into, the people that you are surrounded with, where you work, what you do, and treasure each day.

“Take life as you find it,

 But don’t leave it that way”

~ Unknown ~

The term “compassionate service” is used in our community and refers to love-inspired assistance willingly given to meet physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of another.

It requires a sensitivity that perceives human distress beyond spoken words, an eye that recognizes the good in people, and an understanding heart, attuned to discern what is appropriate to say and do to uplift the human spirit.

Compassionate Service can consist of the following pairings:

Two Ears to listen

Two Hands being of service

Two Feet ready to go the distance

Two Eyes seeing what needs to be done

“Every job is a self-portrait

 of the person who did it.

Autograph your work

with excellence”

Everytime you take on a job or a project you are given an opportuntity to be the creator of possibility. Embrace it with gusto, and reverance. There is only one of you. Putting your mark on the world through the work that you do leaves a legacy of excellence, and a reputation to be rivaled.

What's On Your List?

Create a List of the Work you Autographed:

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“Great minds discuss ideas;

 average minds discuss events;

small minds discuss people”

Gossip is a destructive habit that can ruin a friendship and turn someone’s life upside down. You can’t make someone else stop gossiping, but you can refuse to listen to it. Those who don’t respect the privacy of others will find that their privacy will not be respected either. Everything does come full circle.

We have been socialized to believe that when we discuss people we are giving our opinion about them. That opinion is slated based on our personal filters. Because it is prevalent in our circle of influence we become unaware that we are even been gossiping until it is too late, to take back what has been said.

To stay out of this cycle keep your conversation limited to ideas and events. Doing this keeps you in the arena of your ideas and beliefs. It will take some practice, but it is well worth it.

so things can fall together”

There is a concept called ” creative destructionism”,  which is a way to describe the radical transformation that accompanies human progress. To borrow an example from nature, fire is needed to generate new growth

Creative destruction occurs when something new, kills something older. A great example of this is personal computers. The industry, led by Microsoft and Intel, destroyed many mainframe computer companies, but in doing so, entrepreneurs created one of the most important inventions of this century.

Whenever you are an emerging or transforming , it is going to require creative destructionism. You will, need let something fall apart so something newcan come into existence.

The question, becomes, will your expansion create more than it destroys?

“The difference between

stumbling blocks and

stepping stones

is how you

                                                                     use them”

Have you ever noticed that a huge obstacle stops one person, while another person climbs, goes around, or pushes through it and comes out the other side victoriously?

One of the reason the one person can’t go further is because they are looking at all the barriers that seem to stretch before them. Eventually they will start to think that life is nothing but obstacles that must be overcome, and they  become frustrated and want to throw in the towel.

The victor in the same situations is prepared to see it through because they have a vision. The vision has a set of actions that the victor knows will take them to where they want to be. Yes, they are called stepping stones.

What “ Stepping Stones” have you been on? Capture this in your Serenity Journal

”Today’s progress

 was yesterday’s plan”

There is nothing more gratifying them seeing a project come to fruition . The hours of hard work, dreams coming into extistence, and reality taking on a physical form brings joy to the receiver of the proposed outcome.

Fruition is all about seeing the “ fruits” of your labor. The feeling of accomplishment feels like no other. Know that a small idea or thought was nurtured into physical form for the world to enjoy is like giving birth. It may be a bit painful at times, however once it is completed we forget all the heartaches, and obstacles we overcame to get our desired outcome.

What was the last project you got to see through frution and how did it make you feel? Capture this in your Serenity Journal.

“Wise men are not always silent,

but they know when to be”

Knowing when to stay silent can help you a great deal in many circumstances. Being an excellent communicator counts in your favor, when you give another person an opportunity to pour their heart out and self-discover the answers to their own dilemma.

Have you ever met with a friend who just needed a kind ear to vent, a sounding board, or just needed your physical presence to get to the heart of the matter?

Those are favorite moments for me. Especially when you have the pleasure and honor of watching the idea light bulbs go off, and the “Ahas” get said, and the preverbal “ you are a genius” accolades are given to you.

 Can you think of a time when this happen to you?  

“We cannot direct the wind

but we can adjust the sails”

There will be times in our lives where things will come up that are out of our control. That is not a time to give up, or give in. It is a time to use our creative juices to give birth to something that would have never existed if the circumstances had not come into being.

American ingenuity is built on that premise. When there is a will, we work on creating a way. Many of our inventions, our way of life, and most of all, who we are as a nation is built on this value.

Everyone deals with adversity and obstacles in different ways. How do you adapt to life’s shifting forces?

Capture this in your Serenity Journal!