Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. Life is a risk. Change and chances will be constant.  We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. Courage is contagious.

 Talk courage, think courage, act courageously. The opposite course will surely cause you to have more mental burdens than you can carry.

 Courage will never be the absence of fear but the ability to move forward with dignity in spite of it. A person of courage is also full of faith.

Have the courage to call that FSBO or that expired. Nothing ventured nothing gained.

Last but not least... Never under take anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessing of heaven.

Free yourself from habits that suppress you, and people that depress you. Cut up your credit cards and free yourself from the vicious cycle of debt and interest that never goes away. (I did and I'm still making it) Free yourself from draining relationships with people who only want to take and never give. I'm a few friends less now and I'm okay with this. Really were they my friends to begin with? Free your mind of negative thoughts and belittling beliefs. This one I am still working on ~~ society doesn't make this as easy as it sounds. FREE YOURSELF to be the person you were meant to be!!! I will always be a work in progress.

Yes most of us are ready to pop our top.. But each day we continue along not knowing just how stressed we really are.

How heavy is this glass of water? The answer is the absolute weight doesn't matter.  It depends on how long you try to hold it. If you hold it for a minute, that's not a problem.  If you hold it for an hour, you'll have an ache in your right arm. If you hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance.  In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer you hold it, the heavier it becomes.'

That's the way it is with stress management.  If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly heavy, we won't be able to carry on. '

As with the glass of water, we have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again.  When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden.  So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down.  Don't carry it home......You can pick it up tomorrow.  Whatever burdens you're carrying now, let them down for a moment if you can.

So put down anything that may be a burden to you right now.  Don't pick it up again until after you've rested a while.

Here are some great ways of dealing with the burdens of life:

* Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.

 * Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

* Always read stuff that will make you look good, if you die in the middle of reading it.

 * If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

*If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

 * It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to be kind to others.

 * Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you won't have a leg to stand on.

 * Nobody cares if you can't dance well.  Just get up and dance. At least give it a try.

 * Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.

 * The second mouse gets the cheese.

 * When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

 * Birthdays are good for you.....the more you have, the longer you live.

 * You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.

 * Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.

* We could learn a lot from crayons.....some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box.

*A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

One person with commitment, persistence, and endurance will accomplish more than a thousand people with interest alone. The more diligently we work, the harder it is to quit. So many people begin the good fight of faith, but they soon forget to add persistence, patience, and endurance to their enthusiasm. Many times our dreams and plans appear not to be succeeding. We are often tempted to give up and quit trying. We should be PERSISENT ~ PERSISENT people begin their success where others quit. Never worry about how much equipment, money, or ability you are starting with....it's not what you have; it's what you do with what you have that makes all the difference!!

You can start here and go anywhere you want to. It takes just as much effort to lead a bad life as it does a good life. Dissatisfaction is not the absence of things but the absence of vision. The significance of any person is determined by the cause for which he/she lives and the price he/she is willing to pay. You can predict a person's future by his awareness of his destiny. Life's heaviest burden is to have nothing to carry at all. In general people have too many opinions and not enough convictions. A man without principle never draws much interest. We all distrust our hearts too much and our heads not enough. What you set your heart on will determine how you spend your life. Do you know where you are going?

Everything we do in life is either to get love, or to compensate for lack of love.

Most of our unhappiness in life comes from our tendency to blame someone else for something.

You can't give away something you that you don't have. You can't make others happy if you are unhappy. There's a huge difference between achieving to be happy and happily achieving.

If you were going to start over today, what changes would you make in your life?

Remember a time when you felt on top of the world? Were you happy?

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life. Do you know what your purpose is?

Wow that's a lot to digest. Read between the lines and you to will see it's true.

Getting ahead in a difficult market requires AVID FAITH in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much futher than people with vastly superior talent. I know several people with that great inner drive that I wouldn't invite to dinner.

The problems of today cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose abilities are limited by the obiovus realities. It takes imagination, ingenuity, and discovery to change the world.

Should we focus our energy on sharing ideas, finding solutions and using what is right with America to remedy what is wrong with it, I believe we can make a difference. But first it must start right here in our on home.

Well of course you have.. Who hasn't? Some people will call them failures but I believe that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." ( I've heard this a few times ;o) It's just an experience that all. We have got but one life here. It pays to try and accomplish things while were here. Gifts and talents are given to us to use not only so we can fulfill to the fullest the call in our own lives, but also so we can reach the souls who are attached to those gifts. Remember: it's not what you have, it's what you do with what you have that makes all the difference.

One of the biggest mistakes we can make is to believe that we work for someone else. No matter how many bosses we may have, we really work for the Lord. Time invested in improving ourself precludes time wasted in disapproving others. Everything we say or do creates an investment somewhere. Whether that investment generates a dividend or a loss depends on us. Investment doesn't cost, it pays. We cannot fulfill our destiny without applying the principle of investing in ourselves. We should always do our best, for what we plant now we will harvest later.

Envy is a tremendous waste of mental energy. It is the source of most unhappiness. Some people seem to know how to live everybodys lives but their own. Don't measure your success by what others haven't done. Having the right goals propels you to act from your vision and not from your circumstances. Don't envy anybody. Every person possesses something no other person has. Develop that one thing and make it outstanding. Criticizing another's garden doesn't keep the weeds out of your own. One of the most valulable decisions we can make is not to compare our own lives with what is happening in other people's lives. No one can build his destiny upon the success of another person.