Climbing Higher, Pushing Forward ~ Smiles and Inspiration 2012 ~ Day 67 of 366 ~ 03/07/12

Climbing Higher, Pushing Forward

Life can be kind and life can be rude but still we push on because if we stand still we miss out on the rewards pushing forward can give us.  Of course we all have limits but what are these limits if we don't push on.  : )

What are our limits?  Do you know, do you really know?  The only limitations are the ones that we place on ourselves.  Simply stated the higher we climb in life we will need to understand more to achieve that next level, but thats what asking better questions is about.  

When we ask better questions about anything we will get a better answer and solution.  A solution that will get us from being stagnant to growing.  Living a life of excellence instead of dying in a life of mundane.

Nobody wants to live a mundane life, maybe a simple life, nothing is wrong with that but that is their choice.   We all can dream of a life of riding horses instead of cars, or lighting a candle instead of turning a light switch on but imagine if you would those who rode on horseback getting tussled around by the wind or storms and wishing for a better way to stay warm and dry with comfort in mind and a quick way to get around.  That dreamer led us to a train or car and then a jet plane.  They wanted more and they pushed forward for more.

We all need to 'Think Different' as in the Apple commercial clearly explains.

' Dare yourself to Think Differently '

Staying Hungry when others tell you it won't work and you keep pushing on.

Staying Foolish when it fails but you try again even when others say it is a waste of your time.

Thats progress in the human spirit.

Thats what Goal Achievement Spirit  (G.A.S) is all about.

So whats your dream?  

Thats what we think upon tomorrow.  Whats your Dream?  So I share that title of tomorrows post not just to give you a tease but to get you thinking now.

Whats your dream?  What do you want to achieve or make better in your life.  In the life of others?  Whats your dream?

Dream big don't stop short here just brainstorm your ideas for 10 minutes or so.

What do you want for you?  In your personal growth, your families growth, your spiritual growth, your professional growth.

What do you dream about?  Whats your dream?

Just some thoughts and as always smiles sent to you this day and everyday.

New Affirmation for the Month of March ..... Use it daily and feel the change in you.

I walk with confidence and understanding towards success.  Born into a perfected state I strive to achieve my intended purpose, to love, to share and care for self and for others that come in contact with me.  I choose to be happy and share laughter.  Making a difference in another persons life for the better gives positive and ever flowing energy into my world.  I am focusing on my goals, the this moment goal, this day, my weekly goals and monthly goals I achieve because of my spirit and focus.  

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Quote of the Day 

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.  

: o ) Thomas Henry Huxley

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Today in History (on this date)

1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1912 – Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.

1965 – Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama.

1985 – The song "We Are the World" has its international release.

1986 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.

1994 – Copyright Law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.


2009 – The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.

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Fun Links to have

Daily Countdown to Spring 

Sound Cloud 

A cool Time piece for the web

Next Full Moon 

More to come ... Enjoy : ) 

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Daily Prayer for March

Thank you for another day in the world you created.

May my spirit inspire, inflate and bring joy and peace to another.

May I always speak my gratitude into the world and share my appreciation.

Guide me today to be wiser, more kind, help me to see deeper into this hurting world and perhaps give a bit of kindness to it.

May I always appreciate the nature that surrounds me.

The wind, the sunshine and the plants and trees that surround me.

Help me to understand that the energy around me is both helpful and strengthening.

In your word I seek peace and solace.

Thank you for another day.

Amen

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On Imagination ~ Smiles and Inspiration 2012 ~ Volume 1 Issue 29 Day 332 of 365 11/29/11

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief,

 is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

~W. Somerset Maugham

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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you

 determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

~Epictetus

The power of imagination, if only we understood its power in our minds and collectively as a group.

Imagine rising up against the two party political system and saying no more will we limit ourselves.  To a party who uses a donkey as a symbol or a big elephant as the other.

Imagine rising up against child homelessness and saying no more and turning our empty landscape into facilities that not only housed the homeless but educated them and protected them from harm.

Imagine standing and saying no more to a welfare system that does not promote leaving it but puts walls around its recipients to make them feel safe and secure and why would they want to leave its safety net.  There is no reward on the outside only hurdles.

Imagine if only we stood up and said no more to this folly there is a better way.  Lets go in this direction.  Lets head towards empowerment instead of making people live in fear.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

~Stephen Covey

Imagine what you really want for your day, your week, your month, your year.  Imagine, make it real, dream big and walk towards that image.

What is there to lose?  What is there to gain?  What is the possibility that the journey will be more than just a journey?

Some things to ask as the year 2012 gets closer some 33 days away.

Enjoy this day.  Enjoy this day for it is yours.  Make today count and let your imagination run free with no chains, no barriers and no limits.

As always smiles sent your way today and everyday! : )

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On this day in history

1394 – The Korean king Yi Seong-gye, founder of the Joseon Dynasty, moves the capital from Kaesŏng to Hanyang, today known as Seoul.


1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.


1781 – The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.


1864 – Indian Wars: Sand Creek Massacre – Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.


1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Spring Hill – Confederate advance into Tennessee misses opportunity to crush Union army. Gen. Hood angered, leads to Battle of Franklin.


1872 – Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.


1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.


1881 – Spokan Falls (today the city of Spokane, Washington) is officially incorporated as a city.


1885 – End of Third Anglo-Burmese War, and end of Burmese monarchy


1890 – The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan and the first Diet convenes.


1929 – U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.


1943 – The second session of AVNOJ, the Anti-fascist council of national liberation of Yugoslavia, is held in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, determining the post-war ordering of the country.


1944 – The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.


1945 – The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.


1947 – The Partition Plan: the United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Israel.


1947 – My Trach Massacre: First Indochina War.


1950 – Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force United Nations forces to retreat from North Korea.


1952 – Korean War: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.


1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission – Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed-down off the coast of Puerto Rico.


1963 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.


1963 – Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831: A Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes after taking-off from Dorval Airport near Montreal.


1965 – The Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette 2.


1967 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.


1972 – Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game.


1983 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution stating that Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan.


1987 – Korean Air Flight 858 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 155.


1990 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes two resolutions to restore international peace and security if Iraq did not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.


2007 – The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to The Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.


2007 – A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern coast of Martinique. This affected the Eastern Caribbean as far north as Puerto Rico and as far south as Trinidad.

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My daily recipe for today.  Hope you enjoy : )  From MyRecipes.com

Chicken Enchilada Casserole

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Your Daily Prayer 

Lord, thank you for today.


Thank you for the power of thought and the gift of imagination.  May I put it to better use for good and empowerment for making a difference in another persons day.


I thank you for the nature outside of my door, thank you for sharing that.


Thanks for the goodness that surrounds me everyday may I be guided by my spirit to focus on those things instead of any the negative.

Help me to be kinder and gentler with myself, and more positive with my words.


May my self talk and expression flow towards the empowerment of my world and those around me.


May we all take that step to reach out and shine our lift of love, joy and laughter.

Thanks for that love that is given and shared this time of year.  May we take this time to reach out and share our kindess and love that have been given to us.

May we become filled with gratitude that overflows.

I give you praise and the glory for all of that

With humility and gratitude I thank you

Amen

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Daily Information

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Sunset

Next Full Moon

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On Making Things Better ~ Smiles and Inspiration 2012 ~ Volume 1 Issue 28 Day 331 of 365 11/28/11

 "The most inspirational man I knew only 

reached his potential by helping a child reach his."

~ Mitch Albom

 (from the book Have A Little Faith)

Watched the movie last night, Have a Little Faith from the book.  Artfully done.  Awesome and inspiring.  It touches you if you watch it.

Faith in something bigger than ourselves.  It truly is about that and more.

What we care about we act upon.  When we share and care we start to make things better.

First with ourselves and then with the world around us.

We all have the power to make a difference but yet at times we get self centered, or just overwhelmed maybe with all that happens to us and around us.  But it does not have to be that way.

We start with the image in the mirror.  Looking deep within those eyes that stare back into the windows of our soul.  What do you see when you look deep within?

What do you want for others?  I know you care about others, deep down, you care.  Even if you feel others have ignored you, or give you no respect or care little about you.  You still deep inside care about them. 

 If you take the time to read this your really looking for that more in life. 

Thats the first step is realizing that.  You want more for not just yourself but for your children.

Your family.  Your friends.  You truly want more.  You care and you truly want to share more.

The next step is taking time for prayer.  To give praise, to give thanks and to ask for wisdom and guidance in your daily actions.

What next?  Be still, listen to that small still voice.  It comes within many times and we ignore it.  We push it aside.

But its there.  Telling your and encouraging you to act.

Set your goals for what your truly want.

Set your plans and action steps.

Set time to monitor and reflect on the actions you have taken.

Forget the word failure.  You are getting an education on how to make your goals come true.

Don't worry about what others say about you ... 'it is truly none of your business what others think or say about you.'  Ignore it. Push ahead.

Stay hungry for your dreams and goals.

Stay foolish to push on and make them a reality.

Make a difference.

Share and care about another.

Dream Big and live to learn about what just may be missing in this world.

The desire and concern to Make Things Better.

As always smiles sent your way.... Today  and everyday  : )  Enjoy your day everyone : )

  

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On this day in history

1520 – After navigating through a strait at the southern end of South America, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.


1627 – The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy has its greatest and last victory in the Battle of Oliva.


1660 – At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.


1666 – At least 3000 men of the Scottish Royal Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green.


1729 – Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.


1811 – Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.


1814 – The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.


1821 – Panama Independence Day: Panama separates from Spain and joins Gran Colombia.


1843 – Ka Lā Hui: Hawaiian Independence Day – The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.


1862 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General John Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.


1885 – Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.


1893 – Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.


1895 – The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.


1905 – Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.


1907 – In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.


1909 – Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire.


1910 – Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again.


1912 – Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.


1914 – World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.


1917 – The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.


1919 – Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)


1920 – Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush - The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen.


1925 – The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee as WSM Barn Dance.


1942 – In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 491 people.


1943 – World War II: Tehran Conference – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran to discuss war strategy.


1958 – Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.


1960 – Mauritania becomes independent of France.


1964 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.


1964 – Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.


1965 – Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.


1971 – Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation is severely beaten by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers; he dies two days later.


1971 – Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization.


1972 – Last executions in Paris, of the Clairvaux Mutineers, Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet, guillotined at La Sante Prison. (Bontems had been found innocent of murder by the court, but as Buffet's accomplice is condemned to death anyway.) The chief executioner is Andre Obrecht.


1975 – East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.


1979 – Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 operated sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.


1980 – Iran–Iraq War: Operation Morvarid – Over 70% of Iraqi Navy was destroyed by Iranian Navy in The Persian Gulf. The Iranian Navy's Day.


1981 – Our Lady of Kibeho: Schoolchildren in Kibeho, Rwanda, experience the first of a series of Marian apparitions.


1987 – South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on-board.


1989 – Cold War: Velvet Revolution – In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.


1991 – South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.


2002 – Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air-missiles.

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My daily recipe for today.  Hope you enjoy : )  From MyRecipes.com

Hearty Potato Soup

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Your Daily Prayer 

Lord, thank you for another day of life for another day to make a difference.


I thank you for the nature outside of my door, thank you for sharing that.


Thanks for the goodness that surrounds me everyday may I be guided by my spirit to focus on those things instead of any the negative.

Help me to be kinder and gentler with myself, and more positive with my words.


May my self talk and expression flow towards the empowerment of my world and those around me.


May this day after our day of thanks give reminding me that gratitude for the simple pleasures of life and of memories made are the most significant things to reflect upon.

May I be guided and given the opportunity to share a smile.  Share a kind word and make a difference for another to brighten their day.

May we all take that step to reach out and shine our lift of love, joy and laughter.

Thanks for that love that is given and shared this time of year.  May we take this time to reach out and share our kindess and love that have been given to us.

May we become filled with gratitude that overflows.

I give you praise and the glory for all of that

With humility and gratitude I thank you

Amen

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Daily Information

A very cool time piece for the web

Sunrise  

Sunset

Next Full Moon

Days till Spring 

Sharing a smile ~  Sending you love ~  Pass it on

: )

brought to you by Make ME Smile Online

written by Victor Yakin copyright protected 2011