“You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!”
: o ) Sasha Azevedo
The moment we start to focus on what we can do for another instead of always focusing on what the world can do for us .... we will start to change and change in how others view us. The immediate world that surrounds us will start to soften, the edges that used to be sharp and abrasive will start to smoothen out and we will enjoy making that difference in the world.
Last night on FB a friend shared the Ralph Waldo Emerson quote on Success, a favorite of mine and after you read this understand how 'Success' can be so easily achieved when we start to look at our world with the simplicity that this quote defines.
The quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson:
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even on life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
Key statement ... to leave the world a bit better.
We have the power each and everyday to do this very thing.
To add positive energy into the world and allow that energy to ripple out with such love and gentleness into the world that surrounds us.
Let your love and kindness and that simple sincere smile ripple out from you today.
Add a kind word or a gentle sign of appreciation and watch the ripple gently caress the spirit of another, and yet another and enjoy it.
Enjoy it and know that I am sending my smiles out to you : )
This weeks new affirmation :
I choose to focus on the energy that I create with my happiness. My smile can brighten another persons spirit quick and efficiently. The difference I make is not in the moment that I just shared with another, that smile, the kind word but it is in the difference that is created by the ripple effect of love and kindness. I choose to share that ripple and it flows out, further and further each day. The ripple effect of laughter, of kindness and gratitude. I am the energy that can make a difference for future generations. I am one but with others I become a small group of people that can truly change anything for the better.
117 words that I hope starts to change your spirit from within. The spirit that says, yes we can and we should make a difference.
Enjoy your week, share a smile, share in some laughter and dream big and love always : ) Smiles to you this day and everyday
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On this day in history
630 – Muhammad leads an army of 10,000 to conquer Mecca.
1569 – First recorded lottery in England.
1571 – Austrian nobility is granted freedom of religion.
1693 – Mount Etna erupts in Sicily, Italy. A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta.
1759 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
1787 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
1794 – Robert Forsythe, a U.S. Marshal is killed in Augusta, Georgia when trying to serve court papers, the first US marshal to die while carrying out his duties.
1805 – The Michigan Territory is created.
1861 – Alabama "secedes" from the United States.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post – General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
1863 – American Civil War: CSS Alabama encountered and sank the USS Hatteras (1861) off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas.
1908 – Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
1919 – Romania annexes Transylvania.
1922 – First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
1927 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
1935 – Amelia Earhart is the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
1942 – World War II: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
1943 – World War II: The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
1943 – Italian-American Anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York
1949 – The first "networked" television broadcasts take place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
1949 – First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California.
1960 – Henry Lee Lucas, once listed as America's most prolific serial killer, commits his first known murder.
1962 – An avalanche on Huascarán in Peru causes 4,000 deaths.
1964 – Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes a landmark report saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking nation- and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
1972 – East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
1986 – The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane in Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
1996 – Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
1998 – Sidi-Hamed massacre takes place in Algeria, over 100 people are killed.
2003 – Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois' death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
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Amen
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Your Daily Prayer
Lord, thank you for today and all the possibilities that lay in front of me
Thank you for this year and another day of life and a chance to make a difference
Thank you for the gift of family, of love, of understanding.
Bless our families, our friends, those in need of hope and faith may be in some way help to inspire their lives.
Help them to construct a plan for a path of increased gratitude, enhanced desire to create a environment of more laughter and smiles.
May we have the insight to understand that we are in charge of our product that we produce
Help all us to understand that we create our results, our thoughts, our actions that make all the difference.
May we also understand the power of gratitude and prayer with meditation regarding all of our emotions no matter how large or small
We have the ownership of the thoughts and actions and may we realize that strengths that we do possess that can make the most difference in the lives of others.
Help all us to understand that we create our results, our thoughts, our actions that make all the difference.
May we also understand the power of gratitude and prayer with meditation regarding all of our emotions no matter how large or small
We have the ownership of the thoughts and actions and may we realize that strengths that we do possess that can make the most difference in the lives of others.
May I choose to make a difference in the lives of myself and others.
May I share a smile, a sincere smile and perhaps a kind word or deed.
May I give thanks more.
Show appreciation more.
To share to be that beacon of light.
To share a simple sincere smile.
Help me to understand that a balanced emotional status and let me always produce and perform at a more positive state.
Help me to understand that a balanced emotional status and let me always produce and perform at a more positive state.
With humility and gratitude I thank you
Today I will enjoy what gifts and blessings have been given to me.
Today I will share my gifts with others.
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