Oscar Wilde once said that some people cause happiness "wherever" they go, while others cause happiness "whenever" they go. Which are you? A happy person is welcome just about anywhere they go, we gravitate towards the positive. I'm of the belief that the most important thing that you can do when presenting yourself, your products or your services is to help the other person feel positive and happy about himself and life in general. When we're positive, we make decisions quickly and easily, when we're negative we seldom make a decision or if we do the decision is no. Start today to share at least 3 positive things with everyone you talk to and you will be amazed at the impact it can have. Both personally and professionally.

Question: What do you share more, your happiness or your troubles? Do you brighten a room when you enter or when you leave?

“Happiness is like a kiss... you must share it to enjoy it.” - Author Unknown

Quote: "The more you share you happiness with others, the more you have for yourself" - Maxwell Maltz

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” - Buddha

“The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles” - Author Unknown

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I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Imagine, having to set aside a day to say thank you. Ponder what miracles could happen if we made every day a day of thanks. If we took the time to be thankful for just the fact that we are alive and faced with so many wonderful opportunities to make a difference.

Let's form a Thanksgiving day resolution that every day we will take time today to say thank you and express our appreciation to those people we treasure. That we thank at least one friend, customer, and associates for the contribution that they make to our lives.

Question: How often do you actually express your gratitude. Do you thank a new client for their business, what about your long-term clients?

Quote: "When someone comes along who genuinely thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way." - Alan Loy McGinnis

"Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it." - Ralph Marston

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.  ~G.B. Stern

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Thought For Today: The Power of Gratitude

According to the Secret (law of attraction) we attract whatever we are feeling, whether it be love, fear, anger, happiness, anger, joy, gratitude, resistance etc. We attract events, conditions and circumstances which are in direct correlation to what you are feeling. This works both ways, when we worry or are fearful, we attract more of what we are worried about. If you dig deeper into the secret you will find that the most effective emotion for attracting what we want out of life is gratitude. Being, expressing and focusing those things that we have to be thankful for, attracts more of the same. I believe that if we take the time to count our blessings every day, we can only attract more blessing. If I'm wrong, at the very leaste we will go about our day feeling fantatic.

Question: When was the last time you really examined all that you have to be thankful for? Do you believe that what we send out is what we get back? If so, what are you sending out?

Quote: "In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment." - Naomi Williams

"I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude." - Benjamin Disraeli

"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough." - Meister Eckhardt

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According to Albert Schweitzer, constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. Think about the last time someone went out of their way to do some small act of kindness for you, an uplifting phone call, a quick note of encouragement, a business referral. How did that make you feel? Now what about the last time you did a kind act for someone else, how did that make you feel? If your like most, you probably felt great. We cannot do a true act of kindness, one from the heart, without feeing good. In fact, the giver almost always benefits more.

Question: When was the last time you did a small act of kindness, an uplifting note, a compliment, listening to a friend who needs to talk? How did that make you feel? What small acts of kindness can you do today, tomorrow, the next day, etc....

Quote: "Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver." - Barbara De Angelis

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain

"If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble." - Bob Hope

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I was thinking about a quote by Maya Angelou: “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”  What a powerful thought. Imagine what could happen to our business and personal life, if we spent our time helping others feel good, rather than looking for ways to build ourselves up at their expense. This quote reminded me of another rule for creating lasting and profitable relationships, and that is to try to have every person we come into contact with say I like me better when I'm with you. Powerful. Have a wonderful week. Go out and make someone feel special.

Question: Who can you make like themselves better by being with you?

Quote: “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” - Carl W. Buechner

“People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel” - Irwin Federman

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” - William Arthur Ward

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart." - Helen Keller

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Thought For Today: Attitude is a Choice! Being positive or being negative is very much a  habit of thought. Start today to examine your thoughts and determine which direction they are taking you. Replace your negative habits with positive ones by training your mind to think in terms of what you can and will accomplish.

Look for the opportunity that every challenge brings and focus on the opportunity. Count your blessings every day and soon being negative will be a thing of the past.

Question: Do you believe that being positive and being negative are choices that we make about how we will react to life? If so, what choices have you made and what is the result of those choices?

"The difference between can and cannot are only three letters. Three letters that determine your life's direction." - Remez Sasson

"Positive thinking evokes more energy, more initiative and more happiness." - Remez Sasson

“Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours” - Swedish Proverb

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” -  Winston Churchill

“The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” - author unknown

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Thought For Today: Focus

A sports announcer was interviewing the captains of the Olympic Kayaking teams. He asked one captain, what happens if there's bad weather? What happens if there are large waves? What happens if the wind is unusually strong? Surprisingly, he got the same answer from all of the captains. Their answer: That's not inside my boat. That's a powerful message, these captains knew that they could not control external forces, that they must stay focused on the job at hand and keep rowing. Too many times we allow ourselves to be distracted by outside forces over which we have no control and as a result, we greatly diminish our effectiveness. Start today to determine what is most important to you and your success and keep your focus on it.

Question: What's inside your boat? Do you allow yourself to be distracted by forces over which you have no control or do you have a single-minded focus on your vision and goals?

“It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.” -  Anthony Robbins

“Our thoughts create our reality -- where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.” -  Peter McWilliams

“Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” - Denis Waitley

“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.” - Brian Tracy

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Daily Focus: Helpfulness!

Quote: “There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone succeed” - Alan Loy McGinnis

Question: Do you agree with Zig Ziglar's quote: “You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want”? If so, who have you helped today?

Today's Focus: Start today to look for ways to uplift and help the people in your sphere of influence, your friends, family and associates. Since all of us want to be understood, valued and appreciated, a good way to start is to really listen to the people you converse with, put yourself in their shoes and try to see their side of the conversation. Begin looking for ways to recognize, value and appreciate the people you interact it. It is amazing what an impact a simple compliment, or thank you can have on a person's day. As Ralph Waldo Emerson say's “It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”

“Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.” - William Arthur Ward

“You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.” -  Jim Stovall

“Help thy brother's boat across, and Lo! Thine own has reached the shore” - Hindu Proverb

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Daily Focus: The Power of Thought

Quote: "Reality is the mirror of your thoughts. Choose well what you put in front of the mirror." - Remez Sasson

Question: Do you agree that what you think determines your reality? Who decides what you will think?

Today's Focus: Begin today to take control of your mind. Create the reality that you want by deciding the thoughts that you will allow into the mirror of you mind. A simple and effective way to monitor and control your thoughts is to focus on how you feel. When you feel negative, powerless, down in the dumps, for sure your experiencing what Zig Ziglar calls "Stinken Thinken"  When you begin to feel down or when you just don't feel up, stop and take a moment to count your blessings, think of a recent happy moment, in other words, let your mind energize you by replacing the negative with a positive. Try it, you'll like it!

“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.” - Willie Nelson

“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else” - Winston Churchill

“You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.” -  Ralph Marston

“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” -  Herm Albright

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Daily Focus:  Two Little Words - Thank You!

Quote: "When someone comes along who genuinely thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way." - Alan Loy McGinnis

Question: When someone does you a kindness, do you take the time to thank them? Do you thank a new client for their business, what about your long-term clients?

Today's Focus: Take time today to say thank you and express your apprecation to those people you treasure and value in your life. Make it a habit to thank your friends, customers, and associates for the contribution that they make to your personal and business life. It's not only good manners, it's good business.

Here's a thought to ponder, when someone goes out of their way to help you, not thanking them does more harm, then thanking them does good.

"Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it." - Ralph Marston

"Feeling appreciated is one of the most important needs that people have. When you share with someone your appreciation and gratitude, they will not forget you. Appreciation will return to you many times." - Steve Brunkhorst

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.  ~G.B. Stern

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