WisdomOrganic: 2011

ALPHABETICAL DESCRIPTION OF GOD !!!
A - ALMIGHTY
B - BLESSER
C - CARING
D - DIVINE
E - EVERLASTING
F - FORGIVING
G - GREAT
H - HOLY
I - INTERMINABLE
J - JUST
K - KIND
L - LOVING
M - MINE
N - NECESSARY
O - OMNIPOTENT
P - PRAISEWORTHY
Q - QUALITY
R - REDEEMER
S - SAVIOR
T - TRUTH
U - UNITY
V - VAST
W - WORTHY
X - XCELLENT
Y - YEARNING
Z - ZEALOUS

"Normal is just a setting on the dryer." Barbara Johnson

"Confession of a fault half amends it." John ray

"Our true character is that person we become when no one is looking."

"Bad things are always going to happen in life. People will hurt you. But you can’t use that as an excuse to fail or to hurt someone back. You’ll only hurt yourself." Unknown

"Love is what you make it, which is why it can’t be so easily defined."

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Take your success into your own hands!

Friday, October 21, 2011

Free Giveaway-- up to 5 winners

Thursday, October 20, 2011

"When God is going to do something wonderful, He begins with a difficulty; when He is going to do something miraculous, He begins with an impossibility." Reverend Charles Inwood

"To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions." William James

"Somethings are better left unsaid and even unknown."

“God has a promise in your pain” Luke 23: 35-43 Pastor Micheal A/ Walrond Easter Sunday 7 am www.fcbcsermons.com

"It’s so surprising how many persons go though life without recognizing that their feelings toward other people are high people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’s be comfortable with others." Sydney J. Harris

1. Don’t try to read other people’s minds
2. Get up 30 minutes earlier so that you don’t rush/get a ticket while driving too fast/have to explain why you’re late/get fired
3. Get 8 hours of sleep per night so that you think more clearly
4. Stick to your budget
5. Start saving and investing every week, no matter how little you can spare
6. Balance your checkbook
7. Don’t try to be friends with everyone. Cultivate closer relationships with fewer people.
8. Don’t try to do business with everyone. Identify your target client and take very good care of them.
9. Before getting angry, ask yourself if it will really matter in 20 years
10. Focus on being a good person, not on pleasing others

"No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day." Elbert Hubbard

"Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet." Maya Angelou

"Just because everything’s different doesn’t men anything’s changed." Irene Parker

"Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can wound a soul."

"Anger is never without reason, but seldom with a good one."

Monday, October 17, 2011

"If a man does not make new aquantances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should always keep friendships in constant repair." Samuel Johnson

"A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children." James Agee

"You can’t wait for the “perfect circumstance” because it’s may not come Stop waiting, stop making excuses…. you will start out with one then end up with three. You do not have to be perfect or have it all together. Go for it!" Rev. LaKeesha

"Profits are better than wages. Wages make a living which is fine, profits make a fortune which is super fine." Jim Rohn

"I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom." General George S. Patton

"The only man who is really free with the one who can turn down the invitation to dinner without giving an excuse." Jules Renard

"If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself." Albert Einstein

"Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will." Bill Stein

"In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice." George Matthew Adams

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." chinese proverb

"How can you truly understand my grind when you’re not grinding for nothing, You’re content with mediocrity, I’m making something out of nothing! You make a living out of talking **** behind people’s back, I’m to busy changing lives, I ain’t got time for that!" Erica Ware

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

"I alwas knew I was destined for greatness." Oprah Winfrey

"Don’t let a little dispute injure a great relationship." Dalai Lama

"A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life." Coco Before Chanel (2009).

"Fear breeds fear." Byron Janis

"Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself." Harriet Nelson

"Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them." Greg Evans

"Problems arise in that one has to find balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself." Jessye Norman

"Your falseness is the first layer to be worn down by the storms of experience." Pastor Mike

Things that hurt…

Being unsure of how someone feels about you.

Feeling like they are mad at you.

Being misunderstood by people you care about.

Being judged by people you care about.

Feeling like you lost something that was never yours.

Feeling like you’re doing too much.

Thinking you aren’t doing enough.

Not knowing if you should say something.

Worried about what they’ll think if you do say it.

Feeling like you care more than they do.

"Similarities create friendships while differences hold them together." Danish proverb

Thursday, October 6, 2011

"If we could sum up all the causes of hurt, pain, and hated in one word, it would be expectations.,"

"There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control- your mind and your mouth." Mefi Asante

Overthinking leads to negative thoughts.

"Without God, I am nothing. But with God, I’m an unstoppable force!" Pastor Mike

"Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional and psychological differences between people." Stephen Covey

"FOCUS (F)ollow (O)ne’s (C)ourse (U)ntil (S)uccessful"

"Accept fate and move on. Don’t yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future."

"A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets." The Titanic

"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning." Maya Angelou

"Jesus does some teaching in the midst of the storm… be attentive." Pastor Mike (remixed)

You can only keep things covered but for so long. Issues, problems, pains, hurts, disappointments MUST be dealt with. No matter how much you think you have gotten over something, you really haven’t. It’s just an illusion. It will come up again in some way, shape, form or fashion. I am not suggesting that the issue will not go away after dealt with, however you will not become so fixated on the anger, hurt, pain or frustration of it all as if the event just happened. ~Wisdom Organic (Bernadette Robinson)ber

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

"It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks." Helen Keler

"Only God can judge me. Actually you can judge me too, but what you think ultimately does not matter." Kareem P. Ansley

"If it had not been for the Lord on my side…."

We all have stories to tell.

"You meet people who bring out the best in you and people who bring out the worst in you. Both kinds show you what you are capable of!"

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." Oprah Winfrey

"Sermon Topic: You better get me while you got a chance. Scripture: Luke 1:80 The child grew up, healthy and spirited. He lived out in the desert until the day he made his prophetic debut in Israel."

"Our mistakes often come from letting our desires interpret our responsibilities…" Cindy AnaCaona Peralta

"You’ve got one life; live it. Follow your dreams, quit your job, drop out of school, tell your boyfriend that he’s lousy, and walk out the door. This is your time. This is your life. You know what? Dream as big as you want to; it’s the cheapest thing you’ll ever do." Jared Leto

This is for the girls who don’t always win. The girls who stay up all night listening to music that inspires them. The girls that laugh, smile, cry and think all on a daily basis. The girls who love, learn and regret. The girls who may never have it easy. The girls who learn the hard way to live and tell about it. The real girls.

"Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even get someone’s attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image. They die in the process."

"Don’t settle where you are. Rise up in strength today and begin to declare your victory. “I have given you authority…to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you” (Luke 10:19, NIV)"

Monday, October 3, 2011

"Your self-care is non-negotiable, but necessary to be the best you and the best parent possible.” - Mia Redrick"

"I am not a believer in luck. I am a believer in creating your own luck. In other words, I am a believer in creating the circumstances to be successful. You do this through planning, preparation, hard work, discipline, and persistence. You can sit around and wait for something to fall out of the sky. I am going to do my part to open up heaven!" Tublu Atlanta

"You can buy a person’s hand but you can’t buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is." Dale Carnegie

"The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deceptions." Kathleen Hall Jamieson

"If you know someone is no good for you, be like an umpire and call it like you see it! Don’t turn them on, turn them down." Rev. Run

" It’s one thing to be delivered but it’s another thing to act delivered. When God takes you out of Egypt, stop going back… today is a new day.

"Always be a first rate version of yourself, instead of a second rate version of somebody else."

"It’s NOT fair to give God what he hates, & ask him for what you Love."

"I’m not be be impressed by beauty, power or money. What’s impressive is one who has a good heart and character. That is who we really are."

"Conformity is the ruin of the mind."

Friday, September 30, 2011

"The only people with whom you should try to get even with are those who have helped you." John Southard

"Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself."

Bible Study Notes 7/13/11- raw version of notes

When you understand yourself, you will be understood.
If you don’t know yourself, you live in poverty and you are that poverty.
Nothing hidden will fail to be displayed.
Nothing covered will remain undisclosed.
One who knows everything else but does not know himself knows nothing.
Kings James Version vs. King James Translation
God is that which you cant fully put your mind around.
Be careful when you make assumptions about God.
God is beyond apprehensions, therefore you cant make assumptions about what you cant fully apprehend.
You discover yourself by relationship to others.
Revelation of yourself is connected in relationship to situations or person.
If you go through nothing, you will not know of your strength.
If you ever want to know the truth about yourself, if you want to see your truest self with all insecurities and strengths, fall in love.
Fall in love and you will discover who you are- and all the stuff you thought wasn’t there will come to the surface.
Fall in love and you will be introduced to yourself
When you fall in love, you will meet yourself in ways you didn’t know.
Being in love can break you down to your lowest form.
When you fall in love with God, you will not distance yourself form him.
Turn your heart to God and stop treating him like the chick/dude on the side, tryna take everything they have.
When you’re not in love with someone its in detestable to be intimate with them.
Worship becomes difficult when you are not in love with God.
Don’t confuse sex with intimacy— Jumping and shouting (physical) vs. worship (heart is given to God)
When you fall in love after having been hurt, you get in the way of the relationship
Cause you think of all the things that can go wrong then you sabbatoge the relationship
Stop believing what everyone else know about God instead of what you believe about God.
When you find yourself attracted to wounded people, you’re wounded.
When you don’t have courage to want to change and grow, you won’t be healed and will continue to hold on to your issues.

"if you judge someone based on their outward appearance then you will never enjoy knowing all these different people with unique personalities." cambongam

"It only takes one person to change your life- You"

"He who lives without discipline dies without honor." Icelandic proverb

"Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm." Augustine Birrrell

"Fairness is an across the board requirement for all our interactions with others. Fairness treats everybody the same." Barbabra Jordan

"Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there." William Penn

"If there were no God, there would be no atheist." Gilbert Chesterton

Thursday, September 29, 2011

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life." John Lennon

"Sometimes people go through things and are so quick to blame the devil because they don’t want to face and deal with the situation. It ain’t always the devil, its called life." ~Pastor Mike

"I want to be dead to always looking to have a good time but my soul is empty." ~Pastor Mike

Change is what you make out of every situation. Making a difference is choosing to go beyond any normal expectation.

"True friends are the ones who never leave your heart, even if they leave your life for awhile. Even after years apart, you pick up with them right where you left off, and even if they die, they’re never dead in your heart."

"Everyday is a blessing…learn a lesson and treat every moment like it’s the best thing."

"You can’t let you shortcomings or flaws determine how you feel about yourself"

"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand." Ella Wheeler

"Don’t let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future." Zig Ziglar

"So many churches are so on the focused internal structure, they forget their communal responsibility." Pastor Mike on WLIB

"YOU CAN’T GO THROUGH LIFE QUITTING EVERYTHING. IF YOU’RE GOING TO ACHIEVE ANYTHING, YOU’VE GOT TO STICK WITH SOMETHING."

"If you don’t know where you’re going any road will get you there." C. S. Lewis

"Just because you’re broken doesn’t give you the right to go out and make other people broken like yourself."

"Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional and psychological differences between people." Stephen Covey

"Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be faced until it is faced." James Baldwin

"The ark was built by amateurs but the titanic was built by professionals."

"When you stop stressin’ your Ex..you might start impressin’ your Next…" The Single Woman

"Real women don’t worry about being dimes because true gentlemen don’t carry change."

"Do not believe the labels that people put on you. What do you say about you? What does God say about you? You are a child of God."

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Sir Winston Churchill

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Nuke it!

The most efficient way to get through a task is to delete it. If it doesn't need to be done, get it off your to do list.

"When you're truly in love, you know it, you don’t have to ask any questions or reassure urself they’re the one"

"Maybe our old wounds teach us something. They remind us where we’ve been and what we’ve overcome. They teach us lessons about what to avoid in the future. That’s what we like to think. But that’s not the way it is, is it? Somethings we’d just have to learn over and over and over again." Meredith Grey

"When you settle, you can’t complain. That’s what you decided to take."

"Nothing is easy to the unwilling." Nikki Giovanni

"Remember, Smooth roads never make good Drivers, calm seas never make good Sailors, clear skies never make good Pilots. A problem free life never makes a strong person. Be strong enough to accept the challenges of Life. Don’t ask Life, “Why Me?” Instead, say: “WITH GOD BY MY SIDE, TRY ME!"

"I’ve been through too much NOT to worship Him!…My worship IS FOR REAL!!!"

"The voices that want to pump you up and shape you, usually have their own agenda. Don’t become a victim of flattery so that people can use you. Be careful of the people that whisper in your ear." Pastor Mike

"Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong." Abraham Lincoln

"We’ve become obsessed with beauty and the foundation of youth and frankly, I’m really saddened by the way woman mutilate their faces in search of that." Halle Berry

Sunday, September 25, 2011

"Fight for the things you love. Love the things worth fighting for." Unknown

"Start where you are, use what you have. Do what you can." Arthur Ashe

"What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient." Bodie Thoene

"Deep down we are all fragile human beings, each one a combination of victories and defeats, a mixture of pain and joy, suffering and hope." Terrie Williams

"A mother understands what a child does not say." Jewish proverb

"Don’t get comfortable with stagnation and wondering, (I’m going to be what I’ve never been, do what I’ve never done and go where I’ve never gone. )" Pastor Mike

"The truth is, everybody is going to hurt you, you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." Bob Marley

"Do not entertain relations with those who lower your vibration. Constant elevation… And commune only with those who uplift you, and those whom you uplift.

"To value his own good opinion, a child has to feel that he is a worthwhile person. He has to have confidence in himself as an individual."

Sidonie Gruenberg

Friday, September 23, 2011

"My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it." Brennan Manning

"When you stray, God will not track you down but wait for you to come home." ~Pastor Mike

"If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything."

"The circumstances in your life does not dictate what God is in your life"

"Gift Haters- they can’t handle your gift. If your gift is working against them, they will incorporate every mechanism to muffle and drown out your gift." Pastor Mike

"When you truly love yourself, you take crap from no one."

"God paraphrased “I positioned you not because of your dislikes, I positioned you because of my love." Pastor Mike

"Without God, I am nothing. But with God, I’m an unstoppable force! You Have no choice but to reckon with me because with him, I can do all things." Pastor Mike

"The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and savor your reasons, then your marriage is a gift from the gods." Bill Cosby

"I ask not for a lighter burden but for broader shoulders." Jewish Proverb

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

you can run, but unresolved issues- good or bad will meet you at your destination. ~bernadette robinson

Monday, September 19, 2011

"A man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is." Max Hickerson

"Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you." Robert Gilbert

"Great friendship is about two things; first is to find out the similarities and second is to respect the differences."

"When the world pushes you to your knees, you are in a perfect position to pray."

"Even when I’m faithless- Lord you been faithful."

"What God imagined for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine." Oprah Winfrey

"Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself." Audrey Giorgi

"The secret of happiness is to count your blessings, while others are adding up their troubles."

"When you settle, you can’t complain. That’s what you decided to take."

"I love you because you lift me up when i hit rock bottom."

Thursday, September 15, 2011

I am so grateful for my True Friends

A friend is one who knows all about you and still respects you.

A true friend is a priceless gift. When we reveal our hopes, our dreams, and our deepest secrets to others, and they still like and respect us, such people are to be cherished. All too often, the only reason others wish to spend time with us -- to be our friends -- is because of what they perceive we can do for them, not the other way around. A real friendship is reciprocal, one in which each friend benefits equally. You can earn the friendship of others by being the kind of person who deserves respect from friends. When others look up to you, it should make you even more conscious of the responsibility you have to treat them with the same respect you would like them to afford you.

-Napoleaon Hill Foundation

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I so love my daily reading today. I love it so much that I have to contact the people that fit this category and thank them. Better yet, buy a card. I have freinds in my life that has been there for me when I was a hot mess!! I may not have spoken to them much but as I reflect, I realize that these people never treated me different neither did they diss me. If I needed to talk, I was able to. If I needed space, I got that too. I am still close to most of them and we look back on the days and just laugh. I love my True Friends.
I don't have to pretend to be someone else nor do i have to go through miraculous acts to please them.

I am grateful

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

"If you’re not honest with your partner, who are you going to be vulnerable with?"

"Relationships are made of friendship and lust. You need both in order to make it work."

"Some people just want to be stuck in their their condition (even if it’s holding you back) because it covers their weaknesses." Pastor Mike

"She’s been there for you since day one. Through hell and back, she never once left you by yourself. And you took advantage of that, of everything she offered which was all she had. The one day that you realize what you had, will be the day that it won’t matter, for it will be too late. You’ll have already lost her."

"Never ruin an apology with an excuse." Kimberly Johnson

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." Helen Keller

"Great Is Thy Faithfulness Lord onto me!"

"Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet." Maya Angelou

Why was Snow White given a poisoned apple?  - to show us that not everyone is gonna be kind & not everyone is really who they say they are. Why did Cinderella run away at midnight? - to remind us that everything does have its limitations, even dreams. Why did Ariel exchange her fins for feet? - to show us that people are willing to give up anything to be with who they love & to just be happy. Why did Aurora sleep for 100 years? - to tell us that you might have to wait for quite some time for your true love to come along, sometimes very long, but it’s worth it. Why did Princess Jasmine fall for Aladdin? - to let us know that what the heart wants, it wants it no matter what. Why was Belle in love with a Beast? - to remind us that you can’t really help what’s on the outside, but if the inside is beautiful, then nothing will stand in the way of your love. 

Monday, September 12, 2011

"This is an open letter to all dream killers. Thank you for making yourself easily identifiable! You are the one who always has a reason why the idea won’t work. You are the one who always throws up a smoke screen to cloud the vision. However, I have decided to put as much effort into fulfilling my dream as you put into trying to kill it!!!! The test of wills has begun and I WILL win!" TuBlu Atlanta

"I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, so we’re really not that different, you and me." Colin Raye

"Jesus does some teaching in the midst of the storm… be attentive." Pastor Mike (remixed)

"When is there a better time to doe to self living, arrogance, selfishness, insecurities, your fears, your flaws? Maybe today is a good day and the best time to release those things that’s been hindering you and holding you back - stunting your growth and limiting your possibilities. ~Pastor Mike"

"Pride ain’t nothing when it comes to matters from the heart."

"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it." Ambrose Bierce

"The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all." Mignon McLaughlin

"If you are kind people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; build anyway." Mother Teresa

"Keep hope alive." Jesse Jackson

"When you judge, you leave no room for love. When you love, you see nothing to judge." Henry Bryant

Thursday, September 8, 2011

"In worship there is healing, deliverance and intimacy with God."

"There is no escape. Man drags man down or man lifts man up." Booker T. Washington

"I want to be dead to contaminating circles of gatherings and fellowships that always get around and promote misery." Pastor Mike

"The blood, that Jesus shed for me, way back on Calvary, Shall never lose its power, The blood that signs my name. oh the blood."

"When staying where you are begins to negatively impact the people around you, it’s time to move." Rev. LaKeesha

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

"Do not stand affirming your pain and misery and do not let what you’re going through determine how you feel because Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world." ~Pastor Mike

"The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny." Napoleon Bonoparte

I don’t want to become another girl you had a “thing” with. I don’t want to become someone you used to know. I don’t want to see you look at another girl the way you look at me. I want to be the girl you fall in love with and can never find another to replace with. I want to be the girl you grow up with and share the best memories with. I want to be the girl whom everyone thinks you’re going to end up marrying because of how perfect we are together.

"Don’t get comfortable with stagnation and wondering, (I’m going to be what I’ve never been, do what I’ve never done and go where I’ve never gone. )" Pastor Mike

The follies which a man regrets most in life are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity." Helen Rowland

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." George Bernard Shaw

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall to easily into the trap of being our own worse enemies." Roderick Thorp

"Determination is the wake-up call to human will."

"The thing to remember is that the future comes one day at a time." Dean Acheson

Thursday, September 1, 2011

"You’ll see it when you believe it."

Just because you love someone doesn’t mean you’re supposed to be with them. And just because you’re not with them doesn’t mean you don’t love them.

"God sometimes positions you based on how God feels about you and not how you feel about yourself." Pastor Mike

"Small opportunities are the beginning of great enterprises."

"A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pies." Tenneva Jordan

"Heal my mind so I can stop working against my mind and insecurities. Heal my heart so I can stop holding so much pain. Heal me of unintended wounds so I can live free and be unbound." Pastor Mike

"Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it." Swedish Proverb

"You’ve made enough excuses why you can’t do it or why it’s not the right time. If not now, when?"

"A man’s biggest mistake is giving another man an opportunity to make his woman smile."

"No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I’m not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal." Bill Cosby

Monday, August 29, 2011

Family

The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled. So, unless we work to strengthen the family, to create conditions under which most parents will stay together, all the rest — schools, playgrounds, and public assistance, and private concern — will never be enough. ~Lyndon B Johnson

It's OK to Quit

1. Quit arguing with people about the same old foolishness! Respect their position and keep it moving!

2. Quit telling people your secrets when you know they are not going to keep them! And if you keep telling them, then quit getting mad when they tell your secrets!

3. Quit trying to pull people on your journey who don't want to travel with you. Either they believe in you and value you...or they don't!

4. Quit complaining about things you can't and won't change!

5. Quit gossiping about other people! Minding our own business should be a full time job!

6. Quit blaming each other for things that in the big picture aren't going to matter three weeks from now! Talk solutions...and then implement them!

7. Quit eating things you know are not good for you! If you can't quit...eat smaller portions!

8. Quit buying things when we know we can't afford them! If you don't have self control, then quit going to the stores! Quit charging things, especially when you don't NEED them!

9. Quit staying in unhealthy relationships! It is not okay for people to verbally or physically abuse you! So quit lying to yourself! It is not okay to stay in the marriage for the children! Ask them and they will tell you that they really would prefer to see you happy and that the misery you and your spouse/partner are living with is affecting them!

10. Quit letting family members rope you into the drama! -Start telling them you don't want to hear it! Quit spreading the drama! Quit calling other relatives and telling them about your cousin or aunt! Go back to #5 minding your own business should be enough to keep you busy!

11. Quit trying to change people! IT DOESN'T WORK! Quit cussing people out when you know that they are just being the miserable and jealous people that they are!

12. Quit the job you hate! Start pursuing your passion. Find the job that fuels your passion BEFORE you quit!

13. Quit volunteering for things that you aren't getting any personal fulfillment from anymore! Quit volunteering for things and then failing to follow through with your commitment!

14. Quit listening to the naysayers! Quit watching the depressing news if you are going to live in the doom and gloom of it all!

15. Quit making excuses about why you are where you are or why you can't do what you want to do!

16. Quit waiting on others to give you the answers...and start finding the answers for yourself! If what you are doing isn't working for you...then quit it!

17. Quit settling and start making your dreams a reality!- Quit being afraid and START LIVING YOUR LIFE! CREATE THE LIFE YOU WANT! If you want something different than what you have had in the past.....you must quit doing what you have done before and DO something different! JUST QUIT IT ...... and START DOING something to create the experience you want!

By: Veraunda Jackson - Motivational Speaker -

100 Benefits of Meditation

Physiological benefits:
1- It lowers oxygen consumption.
2- It decreases respiratory rate.
3- It increases blood flow and slows the heart rate.
4- Increases exercise tolerance.
5- Leads to a deeper level of physical relaxation.
6- Good for people with high blood pressure.
7- Reduces anxiety attacks by lowering the levels of blood lactate.
8- Decreases muscle tension
9- Helps in chronic diseases like allergies, arthritis etc.
10- Reduces Pre-menstrual Syndrome symptoms.
11- Helps in post-operative healing.
12- Enhances the immune system.
13- Reduces activity of viruses and emotional distress
14- Enhances energy, strength and vigour.
15- Helps with weight loss
16- Reduction of free radicals, less tissue damage
17- Higher skin resistance
18- Drop in cholesterol levels, lowers risk of cardiovascular disease.
19- Improved flow of air to the lungs resulting in easier breathing.
20- Decreases the aging process.
21- Higher levels of DHEAS (Dehydroepiandrosterone)
22- prevented, slowed or controlled pain of chronic diseases
23- Makes you sweat less
24- Cure headaches & migraines
25- Greater Orderliness of Brain Functioning
26- Reduced Need for Medical Care
27- Less energy wasted
28- More inclined to sports, activities
29- Significant relief from asthma
30- improved performance in athletic events
31- Normalizes to your ideal weight
32- harmonizes our endocrine system
33- relaxes our nervous system
34- produce lasting beneficial changes in brain electrical activity
35- Cure infertility (the stresses of infertility can interfere with the release of hormones that regulate ovulation).

Psychological benefits:
36- Builds self-confidence.
37- Increases serotonin level, influences mood and behavior.
38- Resolve phobias & fears
39- Helps control own thoughts
40- Helps with focus & concentration
41- Increase creativity
42- Increased brain wave coherence.
43- Improved learning ability and memory.
44- Increased feelings of vitality and rejuvenation.
45- Increased emotional stability.
46- improved relationships
47- Mind ages at slower rate
48- Easier to remove bad habits
49- Develops intuition
50- Increased Productivity
51- Improved relations at home & at work
52- Able to see the larger picture in a given situation
53- Helps ignore petty issues
54- Increased ability to solve complex problems
55- Purifies your character
56- Develop will power
57- greater communication between the two brain hemispheres
58- react more quickly and more effectively to a stressful event.
59- increases one’s perceptual ability and motor performance
60- higher intelligence growth rate
61- Increased job satisfaction
62- increase in the capacity for intimate contact with loved ones
63- decrease in potential mental illness
64- Better, more sociable behaviour
65- Less aggressiveness
66- Helps in quitting smoking, alcohol addiction
67- Reduces need and dependency on drugs, pills & pharmaceuticals
68- Need less sleep to recover from sleep deprivation
69- Require less time to fall asleep, helps cure insomnia
70- Increases sense of responsibility
71- Reduces road rage
72- Decrease in restless thinking
73- Decreased tendency to worry
74- Increases listening skills and empathy
75- Helps make more accurate judgments
76- Greater tolerance
77- Gives composure to act in considered & constructive ways
78- Grows a stable, more balanced personality
79- Develops emotional maturity

Spiritual benefits:
80- Helps keep things in perspective
81- Provides peace of mind, happiness
82- Helps you discover your purpose
83- Increased self-actualization.
84- Increased compassion
85- Growing wisdom
86- Deeper understanding of yourself and others
87- Brings body, mind, spirit in harmony
88- Deeper Level of spiritual relaxation
89- Increased acceptance of oneself
90- helps learn forgiveness
91- Changes attitude toward life
92- Creates a deeper relationship with your God
93- Attain enlightenment
94- greater inner-directedness
95- Helps living in the present moment
96- Creates a widening, deepening capacity for love
97- Discovery of the power and consciousness beyond the ego
98- Experience an inner sense of “Assurance or Knowingness”
99- Experience a sense of “Oneness”
100- Increases the synchronicity in your life

Meditation is also completely FREE! It requires no special equipment, and is not complicated to learn. It can be practiced anywhere, at any given moment, and it is not time consuming (15-20 min. per day is good). Best of all, meditation has NO negative side effects. Bottom line, there is nothing but positive to be gained from it! With such a huge list of benefits, the question you should ask yourself is, “why am I not meditating yet?”

Lessons From Life, by 90-year-old Regina Brett

1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch!
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone.
8. It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.
12. It’s OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don’t worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over-prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words ‘In five years, will this matter?’
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do.
35. Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative — dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come.
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.

Ten Rules for Being Human

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s yours to keep for the entire period.

2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, “life.”

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately “work.”

4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.

5. Learning lessons does not end. There’s no part of life that doesn’t contain its lessons. If you’re alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.

6. “There” is no better a place than “here.” When your “there” has become a “here”, you will simply obtain another “there” that will again look better than “here.”

7. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life’s questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust. 10. You will forget all this.

by Cherie Carter-Scott via My Success Company

Children Learn What They Live
By Dorothy Law Nolte, Ph.D.

If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility, they learn to fight.
If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive.
If children live with pity, they learn to feel sorry for themselves.
If children live with ridicule, they learn to feel shy.
If children live with jealousy, they learn to feel envy.
If children live with shame, they learn to feel guilty.
If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence.
If children live with tolerance, they learn patience.
If children live with praise, they learn appreciation.
If children live with acceptance, they learn to love.
If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.
If children live with recognition, they learn it is good to have a goal.
If children live with sharing, they learn generosity.
If children live with honesty, they learn truthfulness.
If children live with fairness, they learn justice.
If children live with kindness and consideration, they learn respect.
If children live with security, they learn to have faith in themselves and in those about them.
If children live with friendliness, they learn the world is a nice place in which to live.