Becoming a Leader

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell

Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper

When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore

Successful leadership requires accepting responsibility,
making commitments and consistently delivering on those commitments,
and always setting an outstanding example for those you lead.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: How to be Successful in Business

How to Motivate Yourself

How to Share Your Thoughts With the World

Gratitude for the Journey

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter
everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe
that change forever how we experience life and the world.
- John Milton

Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous

Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith

Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness:
forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude...
the absence of profound thankfulness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Today's affirmation:
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading:  Gratitude for All of Life

Tending the Garden of Our Lives

 Yes, YOU Can Be Happy

Gratitude

Reverence

Change

Forgiveness

Thankfulness

Journey

Bringing Peace

Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St. Francis of Assisi

If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

What we speak becomes the house we live in.
- Hafiz

Today's affirmation:
Let me bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

Spirit transcends all cultural differences and embraces all creation.

Fear and Love

One World, Many Individuals

Peace

Unity

Service

Diversity

Inspiration

Fear

Inner Smile Exercise

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

Inner Smile Exercise:
1. Breath slowly, deeply, and consciously.
2. Close your eyes and set the corners of your mouth in just the slightest smile.
3. Visualize your smile growing larger and larger, and your happiness increasing.

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
- Phyllis Diller

Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa

Let my soul smile through my heart
and my heart smile through my eyes,
that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Today's affirmation:
When the World Frowns, I Smile Back.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Emotional Releases to De-Stress

Conscious Breathing to Relieve Stress

Smile and the world smiles with you.

Smile quotes

Happiness

Heart

Being Conscious

Joy

Cheer Up
 

More Than Money

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
- Thomas Jefferson

Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar

Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin

Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers

There is nothing wrong with money. Having money, spending money, earning money, and even wanting more money are all well and good up to a point. It is obsession with money, fear of lack of money, and an unlimited desire for more money that are at the root of much modern misery.

Further reading: Six Ways to End Bickering About Money
 
Quotes about Wealth and Power

Tips for Saving Money while Living Well

The simple gifts of life

The Things Divine

Simple Living

Appreciation

Enjoying Life

Simplicity

Serenity

Money