“Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness — if you had little time left to live — you would waste precious little of it! Well, I’m telling you…you do have a terminal illness. It’s called birth. You don’t have more than a few years left. No one does. So be happy now, without reason — or you will never be at all.”

—Dan Millman

 So many of us keep postponing happiness until conditions are right. We’ll start living the good life, we tell ourselves, when we’re making the good money, or we’ve lost that fifty extra pounds, or we’ve kissed that dead-end job goodbye. We keep putting off truly living and the happiness it offers until there are precious few days left and then we look back on a life filled with wouldas, shouldas and couldas and wonder what happened. When you stop and think about it, that’s a silly way to live, isn’t it?

May you always be willing to live the good life today.

Love

Bill

“Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.”

—Brendan Francis

Indecision tends to keep us stuck in the middle of a road going nowhere. Fortunately to get back on track, we need only to decide to decide, trusting that whatever our decision might be, it will take us exactly where we need to be.

One way or another, may you always be willing to decide. 

Love

Bill

“I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.”

—Matthew Henry
English clergyman, 1662-1714

 We can always find reason to express gratitude and as we express it, more reasons for its expression arise. In the cultivation of a grateful heart, any excuse will do.

May you always find reason to be grateful.

Love

Bill

“I’ve heard of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. But I’ve never heard of Someday.”

—Reverend Ike

We have to start before we can succeed at anything and when we keep putting off our dreams until Someday, we unconsciously stall moving toward what we want. We are better served when instead of wishfully thinking “Someday, I will…” we confidently affirm “Today, I steadfastly advance toward my goal.”

May you always be willing to give up Someday for this day.

Love

Bill