OfflineThis isn't EXACTLY RE specific, but it is Attitude specific. And your Attitude is 3/4 of the battle! Love it!
Regina Brett's 45 life lessons and 5 to grow on
By Regina Brett, The Plain Dealer
To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me.
It is the most-requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolls over to 50 this week, so here's an update:
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. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
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. Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
17. You can get through anything if you stay put in today.
18. A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.
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. Overprepare, 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 except 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. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
35. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
36. Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood. Make it memorable.
38. Read the Psalms. They cover every human emotion.
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. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
42. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
43. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
44. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
45. The best is yet to come.
46. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
47. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
48. If you don't ask, you don't get.
49. Yield.
50. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
"You're never too old to be what you were meant to be!"
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Great Attitude Lessons!Peace!
Do not let no one stop you from knowing more knowledge and initiative.
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.
18,A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.
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.
25,No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
26,Frame every so-called disaster with these words: "In five years, will this matter?"
29,What other people think of you is none of your business.
31,However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
33,Believe in miracles.
35,Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
37,Your children get only one childhood. Make it memorable.
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.
42. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
45. The best is yet to come.
46. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
47. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
48. If you don't ask, you don't get.
I REALLY REALLY ENJOYED THIS! THANK YOU!
I Exist. I Am That I Am. I Know That I Know.
WOW I needed this one today! Thank you so much Karen!
Dominic
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Thanks Karen!
Teresa
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-Joel Osteen
I am posting this on a wall or two! :)
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I'm with Dominic...I needed this one today.
Thanks Karen! I've been off the forums for a while, but BOY! did I learn some life (and RE) Lessons in latter 2012!
Love the attitude reminders--
Tina
Never, Never, Never Quit, N3Q
"Nothing happens until you place an offer."
"Skip Deal #1, go straight to Deal #2; it's so much easier."
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." — Peter F. Drucker... so, "Don't sweat the small stuff." -R.Carlson. "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."~E.Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927...so, Do it for the right reason and "Do it with a headache!" - Dean Graziosi, Weekly Wisdom #176
I enjoyed this thoroughly when I saw it also! That's why I thought I would pass it along!
Karen
"You're never too old to be what you were meant to be!"
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"Shining Like a Star & Dancing on Sunshine"
"Shoot for the moon! Even if you fall short, you'll still land among the stars!"
Thanks for the post. It was great being able to have that today or to come back and look at when you are having one of those days or even weeks.
You're welcome! Yeah, this is one that I want to bump up every so often.
It is deep, but not written in a way that feels deep.
Karen
"You're never too old to be what you were meant to be!"
www.deangraziosi.com/real-estate-forums/investing-journals/59128/day-for...
"Shining Like a Star & Dancing on Sunshine"
"Shoot for the moon! Even if you fall short, you'll still land among the stars!"
I really liked that a lot and will print it out and hang by my pc so I can read it often, things have to turn for me sooner or later or what else can one do. Once in a rut it can be hard to get out of but I am not in a rut I am hanging on the edge of a hole and trying to keep from falling in it actually, the rut I was in took me to the edge of the whole that has me hanging.
Shawn
"The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment. As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles. He derives pleasure from even the most trivial occupations bringing his talents into play. He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension preternatural. His results, brought about by the very soul and essence of method, have, in truth, the whole air of intuition."
Thanks Karen,
Great kick to get the year going!
Life is full of choices, and these choices become your reality... YOU are in control of your future! YOU decide the direction your life will take. YOU have to make things happen, no one will do it for you!
When opportunity knocks, will you answer?
!!!!!!!!! =D
I Exist. I Am That I Am. I Know That I Know.
This time of the year, many people get a little overwhelmed and sad.
This is such a great message that I thought I would bring it back up!
Karen
"You're never too old to be what you were meant to be!"
www.deangraziosi.com/real-estate-forums/investing-journals/59128/day-for...
"Shining Like a Star & Dancing on Sunshine"
"Shoot for the moon! Even if you fall short, you'll still land among the stars!"
Thanks for sharing it again. Great message!
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