Changing Me

To attract money, you must focus on wealth. it is impossible to...

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:25:46 +0800

To attract money, you must focus on wealth. it is impossible to bring more money into your life when you are noticing you do not have enough, because that means you are thinking thoughts that you do not have enough. Focus on not enough money, and you will create untold more circumstances of not having enough money. You must focus on abundance of money to bring that to you.

~ Rhonda Bryne, The Secret

Between molts, a lobster’s flesh becomes densely packed...

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:04:08 +0800

Between molts, a lobster’s flesh becomes densely packed within its shell, and a new shell, soft ad flexible, is laid down inside the old. To make it easier for the lobster to pull itself out of the old shell, it manages to shrivel the flesh in the appendages to about a quarter of their normal size. Then, just prior to molting, a lobster absorbs lots of water, which causes the new shell to swell, eventually pushing away the old one.

When a lobster sheds its skin, usually it occurs in a burrow where the lobster can be protected until the new shell has hardened. This is important because the soft casing is very vulnerable to attack. Being protected in a cave or burrow during the weeks and months that its shell will take to fully harden allows tissue to replace the water that gained prior to molting. This gives the lobster the security it needs to fully grow into its shell, so that the cycle of molting and growing can begin again.

People are like that. Everyone needs some kind of protection from the world at large. So, we carry an outward persona, or way of being, that comes to feel quite comfortable over the years.

~ Arlene Harder, author of Ask Yourself Questions and Change Your Life (Stop wishing your life were different and make it happen)

We may claim that we don’t decide which values and beliefs...

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:34:00 +0800

We may claim that we don’t decide which values and beliefs are the right ones and believe we merely following the teaching of someone who speaks “the truth”. The reality is that we are the ones who decide who will be our guide and which, out of dozens, if not hundreds, of interpretations of scripture, or of plain old principles for moral and ethical living, is the correct one.

~ Arlene Harder, author of Ask Yourself Questions and Change Your Life (Stop wishing your life were different and make it happen)

You need to make sure what’s important to you is part of...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:38:58 +0800

You need to make sure what’s important to you is part of your everyday life. ~ Karen Chapmakian

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"Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have - so..."

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:00:26 +0800

“Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have - so spend it wisely.”

- Via

"Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t..."

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:54:32 +0800

“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.”

- Via

"You may make mistakes, but you are not a failure until you start blaming someone else."

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:38:10 +0800

“You may make mistakes, but you are not a failure until you start blaming someone else.”

- Via

I doubt very much that I want to swell my chinaware just because...

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:06:00 +0800

I doubt very much that I want to swell my chinaware just because I made some tea.

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Gosh, how true! moby74: Calling other people judgemental...

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:10:47 +0800

Gosh, how true!

moby74:

Calling other people judgemental doesn’t make you any different from them.

icanread:

(by pineappleupsidedown)

The Real Difference Between Gentleman and Man

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:37:52 +0800

Having attending seminars before, I have seen masses there with the rows of chairs for the audience. Compared to the one that I have attended recently, those seminars consisted of just men.

This one had gentlemen all over the place. The men in those seminars simply crossed their arms and sat up straight so that you, the lady, could squeeze into the available seat just 5 seats away from those men.

This seminar had all the gentlemen quickly standing up to give up their seats to the ladies who entered the room late. The lateness could be due to anything but I saw gentlemen.

The men at the other seminars can go suck their thumbs and stop wondering why the ladies are complaining that chivalry is dead.

Image by xollob58 It’s the most unhappy people who most...

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:06:50 +0800

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It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change. [Source]

Image by Do ~ If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If...

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:24:11 +0800

Image by Do ~

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. [Source]

Image by Pyogenes Gruffer. The price of doing the same old thing...

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:52:00 +0800

Image by Pyogenes Gruffer.

The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change. [Source]

"It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are..."

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:48:05 +0800

“It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.”

- James Gordon

"The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change...."

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:46:30 +0800

“The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That’s all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it’s something you allow.”

- Will Garcia, person with AIDS

"I’ve never met a person, I don’t care what his condition, in whom I could not see..."

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:45:01 +0800

“I’ve never met a person, I don’t care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don’t care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.”

- Preston Bradley

"I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don’t know...."

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:11:04 +0800

“I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don’t know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.”

- Christopher Reeve

"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and..."

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:08:09 +0800

“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”

- Abraham Lincoln

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after..."

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:06:24 +0800

“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”

- Gloria Steinem

"The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of..."

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:58:02 +0800

“The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.”

- Ernest Becker