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  Chuck Burke June 2, 2011 at 2:17am

  From Great Day

   

  Your very essence

  What you truly desire, you cannot ever take from anybody else. Because what you truly desire, is to fulfill your own unique purpose.

  If you cheat or steal, you gain nothing of real value. If you destroy or injure, you are just making life more difficult for everyone, especially including you.

  There are no shortcuts to the real fulfillment you seek. When you grab the mere tokens of that fulfillment, you push the real substance of it farther away.

  There is no such thing as something for nothing. Even if there were, you would not want it, for it would bring no fulfillment.

  Go ahead, make the commitment, make the effort, and persist in that effort until you can feel the fulfillment start to take hold. Go ahead and do the hard work to make a positive difference in your own special way, because that is what you long to do.

  You are immensely valuable, and that value can be fully expressed only through sustained and focused effort. Make the commitment to live that value, for it is your very essence, and well worth whatever you must endure.

  — Ralph Marston

  
  

  

  The Daily Motivator - Something you can love

  This is the moment you have, this is the moment you are living. To find the very best in it give your very best to it, with love leading the way.
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  Pooja Salhotra May 31, 2011 at 8:48pm

  Thanks Penny!
  
  A dose of positive energy in the morning always helps!
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  Jennifer M.Dixon May 31, 2011 at 8:27pm

  Oh thank you for taking the time to find those quotes Penny. Just what I needed right now- an injection of Positive energy.
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  Penny Abshire May 31, 2011 at 7:56pm

  To honor a great man on his birthday. Norman Vincent Peale is the author of "The Power of Positive Thinking." Here are are a few quotes I know you  Positive Thinkers will like:

  Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause,of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
  
  Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
  
  Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
  
  Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
  
  Change your thoughts and you change your world.
  
  Change yourself and your work will seem different.
  
  Don't take tomorrow to bed with you tonight.
  
  Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

  
  Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
  
  Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

  
  Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
  
  Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
  
  Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
  
  If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
  
  If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
  
  If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

  
  Imagination is the true magic carpet.
  
  It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
  
  It's always too early to quit.

   

  Hugs,

   

  Penny

  
  
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  Eric Pollins May 31, 2011 at 3:19am

  Happy Birthday Norman Vincent Peale!!
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  Chuck Burke May 26, 2011 at 4:41pm

  Today's gift from Great Day

   

  Focus and purpose

  Effort alone does not create achievement. Somebody can put forth a lifetime of effort and not have much to show for it.

  What counts is focused effort in the service of a meaningful purpose. Get that, and you’re really getting somewhere.

  Just being busy is not going to make you successful. Instead of merely using up time, find a way to create real, desirable value with the time you have available.

  Don’t comfort yourself with being aimlessly busy. Challenge yourself to get meaningful results from your time and effort.

  Outstanding achievement and disappointing mediocrity are both built from the same twenty-four hours in each day. The difference is not one of time or even effort, but of focus and authentic purpose.

  As long as you’re making the effort, as long as you’re using up resources, as long as you’re spending the time, make it all count. Make a habit of doing what really matters, and you’ll enjoy a life that’s really great.

  — Ralph Marston

  
  

  

  The Daily Motivator - Something you can love

  This is the moment you have, this is the moment you are living. To find the very best in it give your very best to it, with love leading the way.
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  Penny Abshire May 26, 2011 at 12:29pm

  Thanks, Lynne!

   

  I look forward to meeting you too! I also mirror your appreciation for our troops! God bless them all!

   

  Hugs,

   

  Penny
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  Lynne Darlington May 26, 2011 at 10:56am

  Thank you for starting this forum Penny.  I have not had the opportunity to meet you in person yet but I love your energy and your enthusiasm.

   

  Happy Memorial Day Weekend and a thank you to our current and retired troops near and far for their unwavering dedication and bravery.

   
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  Darla Middlebrook May 25, 2011 at 9:29pm

  Dawn,

  I tried to sign up on ACX and could not.  I called them about it and was informed that the site is not open to Canadians yet.  We have to wait "a few more months".  Only open to US voice artists right now.  :(
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  Dawn Harvey May 25, 2011 at 9:16pm

  @ Penny:  Thank you just for being you.  We are truly a saint.

  @Jennifer:  Congrats on booking your first gig on ACX so fast and for reminding me to sign up!   I've been so busy getting ready for APAC/BEA and then taking part in it that I haven't actually done that yet (but, I will, Vanessa, I will!)

  @ Christine:  I continue to send happy, healing thoughts out to the universe for you.  Keep your chin up girl - we love you!