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“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”  John C Maxwell

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.  Marcus Aurelius

What are three things you are doing regularly that don’t serve or support you? When you can identify them, and either eliminate them or set boundaries, your days will be brighter. We tend to bring things into our lives and forget to check the shelf life. We can take regular inventory to get rid of some of the unnecessary burden. Unknown

We all trade our time for something. What are you trading your time for? What is your worthy goal, or ideal? In choosing a goal, the question is NOT whether we are worthy of the goal, but rather, is the goal worthy of us.  Bob Proctor

“The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.”  Arnold Bennett

When you start your day off with what you value most, your sense of doing and living with your highest purpose and for your highest values makes you feel great every day. We all get caught up in everything there is to do and we get overwhelmed when we do not get it all done. It seems our day has just slipped by again. A common theme and lesson taught by certified life coaches is that by doing THE highest and most important stuff first, every day, the little things that don’t get done seem trivial. In addition, by prioritizing what is really important and MUST get done vs. all the stuff that needs to get done, you begin to shift your mentality to one of high impact and high value. John Assaraf

 

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Sharon Lee

Lori Bowers
La Quinta, CA
The Lori Bowers Group

Great thoughts for today.

Mar 18, 2013 08:39 AM
Sharon Lee
Sharon Lee's Virtual Assistance - Jonesborough, TN
Retired and loving life

Thank you Lori

Mar 18, 2013 08:42 AM
Ralph Janisch ABR CRS Broker
Janisch & Co. - Conroe, TX
Selling Northwest Houston to good people like you!
With all the garbage going on in America these days it gets really hard to focus on our lives and make changes that are positive.
Mar 18, 2013 08:52 AM
Toni Weidman
Sailwinds Realty - Trinity, FL
20+ Years Selling Homes in New Port Richey, FL

Unfortunately, all our social media seems to pull us away from what's really important, Sharon. I think all of these are great bits of advice.

Mar 18, 2013 08:55 AM
Gary Woltal
Keller Williams Realty - Flower Mound, TX
Assoc. Broker Realtor SFR Dallas Ft. Worth

As we live our days so we live our lives. Great thoughts as always Sharon. I love your photo too.

Mar 18, 2013 09:09 AM
Sharon Lee
Sharon Lee's Virtual Assistance - Jonesborough, TN
Retired and loving life

Jeanne-We have to put blinders on to the negative around us as there will always be negative in the world.

Toni-I agree social media does that. We want to stay in touch but then other things suffers. It is a balance and not an easy one.

Gary-Glad you like it.

Mar 18, 2013 09:23 AM
Trisha Bush-LeFore
Preferred Properties Land & Homes - Walla Walla, WA
Providing Realtor Services in the Walla Walla Area

Great thoughts! Wonderful to think on as the day nears its end. Thank you very much.

Mar 18, 2013 09:32 AM
Sharon Lee
Sharon Lee's Virtual Assistance - Jonesborough, TN
Retired and loving life

Trisha-You are welcome. Thank you for stopping in

Mar 18, 2013 09:53 AM
Susan Mangigian
RE/MAX Preferred - West Chester, PA
Chester & Delaware County Homes, Delaware and Ches

These are really great thoughts Sharon and so true.

Mar 18, 2013 10:02 AM
Sharon Lee
Sharon Lee's Virtual Assistance - Jonesborough, TN
Retired and loving life

Susan-I think so too. Glad you liked them and thank you for stopping in. I really like your new profile pic.

Mar 18, 2013 11:03 AM
Sussie Sutton
David Tracy Real Estate - Houston, TX
David Tracy Real Estate for Buyers & Sellers

Thanks for the reminder that fooling around begets loss of commissions! I will look and see what I need to change to change for the better. Thanks!

Mar 18, 2013 11:17 AM
Gayle Rich-Boxman Fishhawk Lake Real Estate
John L Scott Market Center - Birkenfeld, OR
"Your Local Expert!" 503-739-3843

You know, Sharon, Stephen Covey touched on this often, the use of time, and there was one thing that I seem to recall from many years ago. There were four quadrants and one was important but not urgent, vs one that was urgent and he said all too often the MOST IMPORTANT quadrant to look at was "important but not urgent"(one you wouldn't automatically look at first)...I have thought of that over and over again to style my life's plan.

Mar 18, 2013 01:09 PM
Jean Jannopoulo
Love where you live - Sarasota, FL
Bright Realty

Thanks for inspiring us, you are a breath of fresh air.

Mar 18, 2013 10:07 PM
Sharon Lee
Sharon Lee's Virtual Assistance - Jonesborough, TN
Retired and loving life

Sussie-We all do the best we can do.

Gayle-I remember that myself from long ago, This is the graph you were talking about I believe

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Thanj you Jean for the kind words. Happy Tuesday.

Mar 18, 2013 11:16 PM
Sondra Meyer:
EXP Realty, LLC - Corpus Christi, TX
See It. Experience It. Live It.

Sharon, thanks for sharing these great thoughts.  Sometimes it is kind of amazing how we find or stumble across a thought or set of thoughts, when we need them most. 

Today, I seriously need to consider the third quote - am I doing some things that are not worthy of my time. 

I hope that you have a great day.

Sondra

Mar 20, 2013 11:26 PM
Sharon Lee
Sharon Lee's Virtual Assistance - Jonesborough, TN
Retired and loving life

Sondra-You are welcome. I think we all are guilty of that. Have a great day as well.

Mar 20, 2013 11:53 PM
Gloria Todor
Premier Property Sales & Rentals - Springfield, PA
& Doug Durren (484) 431-3686 in SE PA

Hi Sharon, Great words of wisdom on how to take hold of our lives and focus in on what is important for each of us.  It is so easy to get side tracked, so this focusing needs to happen everyday to keep us heading where we really want to be.

Great photo of a great place to be!

Gloria

Mar 23, 2013 07:42 AM
Sharon Lee
Sharon Lee's Virtual Assistance - Jonesborough, TN
Retired and loving life

Hi Gloria-It is so easy to get sidetracked we just have to keep things balanced so we don't let the sidetracking stuff take over. I would love to be where that pic is. Enjoy your evening.

Mar 23, 2013 07:56 AM