Affirmations to HiWheel the US By

Don’t ask what the world needs.

2010-05-30T17:36:00.000-07:00

Don’t ask what the world needs.

Ask what makes you come alive

and go out and do it.

Because what the world needs is

people who have come alive

Howard Thurman

Do all you can with what you have in the time you have in the place you are

2010-03-31T09:04:00.000-07:00

"Do all you can

with what you have

in the time you have

in the place you are."

~ Nkosi Johnson

Love Now!!

2010-03-30T08:32:00.000-07:00

Death can come at any minute, in any way.

We do not know what is in store tomorrow,

or, whether there is a tomorrow,

or even a tonight!

But still, we have the golden present.

Now we are alive and kicking.

What should we do now?

Love all, serve all.

Sri Swami Satchidananda

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true."

2010-03-19T09:04:00.000-07:00

"You are never given a wish

without also being given the power

to make it come true."

- Richard Bach

"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams."

2010-03-18T08:32:00.000-07:00

"The biggest adventure you can ever take

is to live the life of your dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Encouragement keeps us going, no matter the adversity that faces us."

2010-03-17T07:35:00.001-07:00

"Encouragement keeps us going,

no matter the adversity that faces us."

- John C. Maxwel

Ability can take you to the top, but......

2010-03-09T08:18:00.000-08:00

Ability can take you to the top,

but it takes character to keep you there.”

Zig Ziglar

"Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use."

2010-03-08T12:37:00.000-08:00

"Life is like a ten-speed bike.

Most of us have gears we never use."

- Charles Schultz

Worry and Walls

2010-03-03T09:18:00.000-08:00

Worrying is the same thing as

banging your head against the wall.

It only feels good

when you stop."

- John Powers

Be Joy - Teach Joy

2010-03-02T12:02:00.000-08:00

"The more you realize that you deserve perfect joy

and accept it,

the more you become

the kind of teacher the world needs most."

unknown

Course in Miracles on Power of Thought

2010-02-25T10:20:00.000-08:00

There is no world apart from what you wish,

and herein lies your ultimate release.

Change but your mind on what you want to see,

and all the world must change accordingly.

Ideas leave not their source* (W.pI.132.5:1,2,3).

- Course in Miracles

* Where source is God or the perfection that created us......

"Just" a Dreamer??

2010-02-23T10:25:00.000-08:00

Some one called me "Just a dreamer".

That offended me - the "just" part.

Being a dreamer is hard work

- Doug Engelbar

"What you focus on expands." - Buddha

2010-02-20T10:24:00.000-08:00

"What you focus on

expands."

- Buddha

Courage is not the absence of fear, it's the mastery of it.

2010-02-19T10:44:00.000-08:00

"Courage is not the absence of fear,

it's the mastery of it."

Zig Ziglar quoting Mark Twain

See with New Eyes

2010-02-18T10:49:00.000-08:00

"The real voyage of discovery consists

not in seeking new landscapes,

but in having new eyes."

-- Marcel Proust

Why it's Bad to Complain

2010-02-17T07:42:00.000-08:00

“See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought about a situation you find yourself in. What other people say or do... your life situation, even the weather. For to complain is always non-acceptance of what is and it invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. So when you complain you make yourself a victim. Either leave the situation, change the situation or accept it.”

~Eckhart Tolle

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will and be judged by only one thing: the result." - Vince Lombardi

2010-02-16T08:43:00.000-08:00

Some of us will do our jobs well

and some will not,

but we will and be judged by

only one thing:

the result.

- Vince Lombardi

Making Dreams Real or Making Excuses

2010-02-15T06:56:00.000-08:00

"Anything that stops you or diverts you

from reaching your goals and dreams

is an excuse!"

- Michael Bloxton

How difficult it is to be simple. ~ Vincent van Gogh

2010-02-12T09:05:00.000-08:00

How difficult it is

to be simple.

~Vincent van Gogh

”Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.” Ben Franklin

2010-02-11T12:32:00.000-08:00

”Speak ill of no man,

but speak all the good you know

of everybody.”

Ben Franklin

if one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams,....

2010-02-09T09:08:00.000-08:00

“If one advances confidently

in the direction of one's dreams,

and endeavors to live the life

which one has imagined,

one will meet with a success

unexpected in common hours.”

- Henry David Thoreau

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. -Theophrastus

2010-02-08T23:05:00.000-08:00

Time is the most valuable thing

a man can spend.

-Theophrastus

Ben Franklin on Change

2010-02-05T12:07:00.000-08:00

When you're finished changing,

you're finished

- Benjamin Franklin

"Continuous effort .........

2010-01-28T13:42:00.000-08:00

"Continuous effort

-- not strength or intelligence --

is the key to unlocking our potential."

- Liane Cardes

Lincoln on Life

2010-01-27T06:39:00.000-08:00

"And in the end it's not the years

in your life that count,

it's the life

in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln"

"You sleep when you die. - The best never rest."

2010-01-26T08:21:00.000-08:00

"You sleep when you die. -

The best never rest."

unknown

"Learn everything you can......

2010-01-25T10:41:00.000-08:00

"Learn everything you can,
anytime you can,
from anyone you can -
there will always come a time
when you will be grateful you did"

- Sarah Caldwell

Life is a long lesson in humility.

2010-01-22T06:56:00.000-08:00

Life is a long lesson in humility.-

Sir James M. Barrie

It's the Life in Your Years that Counts the Matters

2010-01-21T09:08:00.000-08:00

"And in the end it's not

the years in your life that count,

it's the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

Feed your mind healthy ideas or......

2010-01-20T07:20:00.000-08:00

Feed your mind healthy ideas

or the world will feed you negative ideas

that will manifest in your life.

~Rev. Ike

The Happiest Do Most for Others

2010-01-19T07:22:00.000-08:00

"I think I began learning long ago

that those who are happiest are

those who do the most for others."

- Booker T. Washington

To Have all - Think, Speak and Act with Love

2010-01-18T07:28:00.000-08:00

"Think lovingly,

speak lovingly,

act lovingly,

and every need shall be supplied."

- James Allen

All Tasks Can Be Broken Down

2010-01-17T07:33:00.000-08:00

There is no large and difficult task

that can’t be divided into little easy tasks.

Buddhist Saying

Dreams are like clouds........

2010-01-15T06:29:00.000-08:00

"Dreams are like clouds,

if you don't have any desire to catch them,

they'll just fly away"

~ Vanda

"Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still."

2010-01-14T07:27:00.000-08:00

"Do not fear going forward slowly;

fear only to stand still."

- Chinese Proverb

The Hardest Part is Getting Started

2010-01-11T07:17:00.000-08:00

"So many fail because they don't get started

- they don't go.

They don't overcome inertia.

They don't begin."

- W. Clement Stone

Every wall is a door - Ralph Waldo Emerson

2010-01-07T11:26:00.000-08:00

Every wall is a door

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Einstein on Miracles and Living

2010-01-05T07:56:00.000-08:00

"There are two ways to live:

you can live as if nothing is a miracle;

you can live as if everything is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein

The game of life is the game of boomerangs. .....

2010-01-02T06:45:00.000-08:00

"The game of life is the game of boomerangs.

Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later,

with astounding accuracy."

- Florence Shinn

The Source of Stress

2010-01-01T09:32:00.000-08:00

"Much of the stress that people feel

doesn't come from having too much to do.

It comes from

not finishing what they've started."

-- David Allen

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind. ~ John Beecher

2009-12-31T07:23:00.000-08:00

Strength is a matter

of the made-up mind.

~ John Beecher

The Ladder of Success

2009-12-29T07:29:00.000-08:00

Success is a ladder you cannot climb

with your hands in your pockets.

~ American Proverb

"Money is like manure;......

2009-12-28T07:21:00.000-08:00

"Money is like manure;

it's not worth a thing

unless it's spread around

encouraging young things to grow."

— Thorton Wilder

Feed your mind healthy ideas or

2009-12-24T08:56:00.000-08:00

Feed your mind healthy ideas
or the world will feed you negative ideas
that will manifest in your life.

~Rev. Ike

To have peace, give peace. To be happy, make happy. To feel loved, love.

2009-12-23T06:17:00.000-08:00

"To have peace, give peace.

To be happy, make happy.

To feel loved, love.

This is very simple and

is a part of all the world's inspired teachings."

- Hugh Prather

Think Love - Why.......

2009-12-22T09:11:00.000-08:00

"Think lovingly,

speak lovingly,

act lovingly,

and every need shall be supplied."

- James Allen

The Science of Aging

2009-12-21T16:07:00.001-08:00

Youth is a circumstance you can't

do anything about.

The trick is to grow up

without getting old

- unknown

"Drop the idea of becoming someone because..

2009-12-21T16:07:00.000-08:00

"Drop the idea of becoming someone,

because u are already a masterpiece.

U cannot be improved.

U have only to know it and realize it."

- Osho

Dyer on Seeing ....

2009-12-20T08:54:00.000-08:00

If you change the way you look at things,

the things you look at change

~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

“When you become certain that nothing is impossible for you, ......

2009-12-18T08:54:00.000-08:00

“When you become certain that nothing is impossible for you,

you will attain everything you desire.”

- Wayne Dyer

"Control your destiny or somebody else will.

2009-12-17T10:07:00.000-08:00

"Control your destiny

or somebody else will."

-Jack Welsh

The world is not yet exhausted;

2009-12-16T07:54:00.000-08:00

The world is not yet exhausted;
let me see something tomorrow
which I never saw before.

-Samuel Johnson

How will you summarize your life?

2009-12-15T18:15:00.000-08:00

The saddest summary of a life

contains three descriptions:

could have,

might have,

and should have.

- Louis E. Boone

“The more you know the less you need to say.” Jim Rohn

2009-12-14T14:33:00.000-08:00

“The more you know

the less you need to say.”

Jim Rohn

Christopher Reeve on Dreams

2009-12-11T08:29:00.000-08:00

"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible,

then they seem improbable,

and then, when we summon the will,

they soon become inevitable."

- Christopher Reeve

Schwarzenegger - On Jealousy

2009-12-10T12:41:00.000-08:00

"Everybody pities the weak;

jealousy you have to earn."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

As within so without c/o Emerson

2009-12-09T12:03:00.000-08:00

“People do not seem to realize

that their opinion of the world

is also a confession of character.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Pitfalls of Seriousness

2009-12-08T17:50:00.000-08:00

"Seriousness is one of the most serious diseases of mankind -

it causes stress

and prevents people from giving things a try" -

R. Bandler

co-developer of NLP, neuro-linguistic programming

Rohn on Raking Risks

2009-12-07T07:10:00.000-08:00

“If you are not willing to risk the unusual,

you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

- Jim Rohn

Satchel Paige on Overcoming the Odds

2009-12-06T15:19:00.000-08:00

"Never let the odds keep you from

pursuing what you know in your heart

you were meant to do."

- Leroy "Satchel" Paige

Superstar & First black baseball pitcher

Armstrong on Pain

2009-12-05T19:20:00.000-08:00

Pain is temporary.

Quitting lasts forever.

Lance Armstrong

How to Look at a Day

2009-12-04T20:35:00.000-08:00

"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap

but by the seeds you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Disney on Getting Started

2009-12-02T19:24:00.000-08:00

The way to get started

is to quit talking

and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

Carnegie on Great Leaders

2009-12-01T06:27:00.000-08:00

"No man will make a great leader who

wants to do it all himself,

or to get all the credit for doing it."

Andrew Carnegie

Do what you do best!!

2009-11-30T21:17:00.000-08:00

"The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. What you do best, helps not only yourself, but the world."

- Roger Williams

Do what you do best!!

2009-11-29T07:42:00.000-08:00

"The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. What you do best, helps not only yourself, but the world."

- Roger Williams

Donald Trump on Adversity

2009-11-27T08:59:00.000-08:00

"My policy is to learn from the past, focus on the present, and dream about the future. I'm a firm believer in learning from adversity. Often the worst of times can turn to your advantage. My life is a study of that."

- Donald Trump

Here now as I sit with:

- A wheel broken so bad that it is in two pieces

- A bus that won't start and has three days to move or be towed

- A computer that is so badly infected I cannot access anything Google

- Repeated requests for a Powerbook or Ibook so I can work with my old files so I can make $$ that have been ignored and ignored

I wonder how much lower I can sink. And so the above words are my THXgiving here on Black Friday!!

THX 4 all of U!!

The Power of Kindness

2009-11-25T08:22:00.000-08:00

Kindness in words creates confidence.

Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.

Kindness in giving creates love.

- Lao Tzu

Helen Keller on Self-pity

2009-11-24T11:06:00.000-08:00

Self-pity is our worst enemy

and if we yield to it,

we can never do anything wise in this world.

Helen Keller

"Life has no boundaries, only what your mind perceives as boundaries." Michael Bloxton

2009-11-23T11:25:00.000-08:00

"Life has no boundaries, only what your mind perceives as boundaries."

Michael Bloxton

Live in your imagination and not your memory

2009-11-22T09:55:00.000-08:00

"Live in your imagination

and

not your memory."

Stephen Covey

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

2009-11-21T16:08:00.000-08:00

For every minute you are angry

you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mother Teresa on Peace

2009-11-18T07:07:00.000-08:00

"If we have no peace,

it is because we have forgotten

that we belong to each other."

Mother Teresa

"A gold medal is a wonderful thing. but,,,,,

2009-11-17T07:44:00.000-08:00

"A gold medal is a wonderful thing.

But if you're not enough without it,

you'll never be enough with it."

(From Cool Runnings)

ALBERT SCHWEITZER on Kindness

2009-11-16T07:53:00.000-08:00

"Constant kindness can accomplish much.

As the sun makes

ice melt,

kindness causes misunderstanding,

mistrust and hostility

to evaporate."

DR. ALBERT SCHWEITZER (1875-1965)

Medical missionary and Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Accomplishment and The Power of Faith

2009-11-15T08:04:00.000-08:00

"The only thing that stands between a man

and what he wants from life

is often merely the will to try it

and the faith to believe that it is possible."

- Richard M. DeVos

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never

2009-11-13T09:24:00.000-08:00

"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never

have a love affair,

We'd never have a friendship.

We'd never go into business,

because we'd be cynical.

Well, that's nonsense.

You've got to jump off cliffs all the time

And build your wings on the way down."

- Ray Bradbury

"A leader is best When people barely know he exist..

2009-11-12T11:26:00.000-08:00

"A leader is best When

people barely know he exists,

When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,

They will say:

We did it ourselves."

Jim Rohn

Benjamin Franklin on Love

2009-11-11T09:41:00.000-08:00

"Those who love deeply never grow old;

they may die of old age,

but they die young."

- Benjamin Franklin

Shakespeare on Goal Attainment

2009-11-10T08:55:00.001-08:00

To climb steep hills

requires a slow pace at first.

Shakespeare

Shakespeare on Goal Attainment

2009-11-10T08:55:00.000-08:00

To climb steep hills

requires a slow pace at first.

Shakespeare

There is no try

2009-11-09T05:59:00.000-08:00

There is only

Not Do,

There is No Try.

Wise Yoda

(Empire Strikes Back movie)

Right or Happy?

2009-11-08T09:48:00.000-08:00

Do you prefer that you be right

or happy?

A Course In Miracles

William James on Belief and Success

2009-11-07T11:02:00.000-08:00

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking

is the one thing that ensures

the successful outcome of our venture.

William James

Empty Pockets vs Empty Heads

2009-11-04T10:04:00.000-08:00

Empty pockets

never held anyone back.

Only empty heads

and empty hearts

can do that.

unknown

Mother Teresa on Smiling

2009-11-03T08:44:00.000-08:00

We shall never know all the good

that a simple smile can do.

~ Mother Teresa

Life isn’t about finding yourself.

2009-11-02T10:32:00.000-08:00

“Life isn’t about finding yourself.

Life’s about creating yourself.”

- George Bernard Shaw

Thoughts Are Things AND Our Lives!!

2009-11-01T06:39:00.000-08:00

"Our life always expresses the result

of our dominant thoughts."

Sren Kierkegaard

Prosperity Consciousnes

2009-10-30T07:32:00.000-07:00

"The strongest single factor in prosperity consciousness is

self-esteem:

believing you can do it,

believing you deserve it,

believing you will get it."

- Jerry Gillies

Eleanor on Fear

2009-10-29T13:53:00.000-07:00

You gain strength, courage and confidence

by every experience that you

stop to look fear in the face

E Roosevelt

Leaders Inspire

2009-10-28T11:49:00.000-07:00

"If your actions inspire others

to dream more,

learn more,

do more and

become more,

you are a leader."

John Quincy Adams

Fully actualized living!!

2009-10-27T10:50:00.000-07:00

"The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing"

Michael E. Gerber

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

2009-10-26T09:03:00.000-07:00

"Do what you can,

with what you have,

where you are."

Theodore Roosevelt

Only a Failure when Blame

2009-10-25T08:22:00.000-07:00

"A man may fail many times but

he isn't a failure until

he begins to blame somebody else."

J. Paul Getty

Schuller on Problems

2009-10-24T10:24:00.000-07:00

“Problems are not stop signs,

they are guidelines.”

Robert Schuller

The Reality of Miracles!

2009-10-23T09:15:00.000-07:00

"...in order to be a realist, you have to believe in miracles."

David Ben Gurion,

First Prime Minister of Israel

Worry

2009-10-22T09:14:00.000-07:00

When you worry you give up the power to create.

unknown

Carnegie ON Wealth

2009-10-21T07:27:00.000-07:00

"No man can become rich

without himself enriching others."

Andrew Carnegie

Shaw on Failure

2009-10-19T12:22:00.000-07:00

My reputation grows

with every failure

George Bernard Shaw

Forbearance

2009-10-18T23:53:00.000-07:00

"It's not always easy to do the right thing.

But, doing the right thing

makes you strong, it builds character..."

Queen Latifah