Say YES and take action!

When you consider this quotation from Marshal Goldsmith (Mojo)

   Our default response in life is not to experience happiness
   Our default response in life is not to experience meaning
   Our default response in life is to experience inertia

it is clear that the only way to have meaning and happiness in our lives is to say YES and to take action!

I Promise Myself ...

To be so strong that nothing can disturb my peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person I meet.

To make all my friends feel that there is something in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything and make my optimism come true.

To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as I am about my own.

To forget the mistakes of the past 

   and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

To wear a cheerful countenance at all times 

   and give every living creature I meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of myself 

   that I have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, 

   and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of myself and to proclaim this fact to the world, 

   not in loud word, but in great deeds.

To live in the faith that the whole world is on my side, 

   so long as I am true to the best that is in me

Written by Christian D. Larson in 1912

When the voice and the vision

When the voice and the vision on the inside become more profound and more clear and loud than the opinions on the outside, you have mastered your life.

John Demartini

The Secret

And in a similar vein ...

“There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so. 

We see the world not as it is, but as we are”

William Shakespeare

What we know, we perceive!

A fitting quote:

"Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come, joys, delights, laughter, and sports, and sorrows, grief’s, despondency, and lamentations, And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see, and hear, and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory, and by the same organ, we become mad and delirious , and fears and terrors assail us, … All these thing’s we endure from the brain."

From "On the Sacred Disease" By Hippocrates, 5th Century B.C.