Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

When you plant a garden and you plant the seeds they do not come up immediately, it takes time. You have to work up the ground, plant the seeds, water it, fertilize it and get the weeds out. It takes time. Sometimes when you do all the right things in the garden you still have problem the soil is rocky and the plant dies, or the weeds choke out the plant, or the seed doesn`t get enough water and dies. Sometimes you plant the seed here and the wind carries it som ewhere else and it comes up somewhere else. Well it works the same way in life, whether it be in business or just in life in general. In business you meet people and become friends (work up the ground and plant the seed), you talk to them about your business and they get in (watering and fertilizing it) and you help them along the way (getting the weed out). But some don`t do anything, others do a little and die out and you plant the seed with one person and those seeds come up with someone else. Meet people, share knowledge, friendship. You are planting seed, you will reap your harvest, but it takes time.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. Og Mandino

Just think about that. If everyone just did this, think about how much better this world of ours would be. Treat everyone you meet, just like you would like them to treat you. Give everyone you meet a smile and a kind word. If you are feeling down or you are feeling bad, put a smile on. You will soon be feeling better.

"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can." Richard Bach This is true about everything. If you think you can you are right, and if you think you can you are also right. You can do anything you want in life. Know what you want, decide that you can have it, see it as already being yours, and it soon will be yours

"There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way." --Zig Ziglar

In the US we have a day we celebrate called Thanksgiving. That is fine, but you should celebrate thanksgiving all the time. Sometimes it may seem there is nothing to be thankful for, but if you look around you will find something to be thankful for. If nothing else be thankful you are alive

Here is a very interesting quote to think about "Anyone can be a genius if they pick one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day" Albert Einstein I always like to say pick the right subject The Law of Attraction and study it 15 minute a day and you can be a genius and wealthy

"The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose." --Richard Leider Find your purpose in life and go for it. You will not be truely happy unless you find your purpose in life

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve." -- Albert Schweitzer

Always be willing to help others, even if they can do nothing in return for you

Here is something that I found that is so true "When you believe it, you`ll see it! You create what you focus on." Think and speak only what you want. Don`t focus on what you don`t want. Most people have it backwards They say they will believe it after they see it!

"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."
- The Buddha

"The future depends on what we do in the present."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare."
- Japanese proverb

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Og Mandino

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
Og Mandino

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Og Mandino

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
Og Mandino

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
Og Mandino

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, Another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start of no start at all. You were not born to fail.
Og Mandino

I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
Og Mandino

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.
Og Mandino

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Og Mandino

There is a good side to every situation, and when we find the good side, we automatically whip discouragement and defeat.

- David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.

Temporary defeat is not permanent failure

- Napoleon Hill

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

Never mind what "they" say if you meet with temporary defeat, for "they," perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

-Napoleon Hill

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances.

- Martha Washington

The fear habit is very detrimental because you attract the things you fear. If we have any fear we need to get rid of it.

- Peace Pilgrim

Stop worrying and start living.

- Dale Carnegie

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. -W.W. Ziege

Admit your mistakes but don't cry over them. Correct them and go forward. - Maxwell Maltz

Act as if it were impossible to fail. - Dorothea Brande

Why not imagine yourself successful? - Maxwell Maltz

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. -Napoleon Hill

We become what we think about. - Earl Nightingale

We are what we believe we are. - Benjamin N. Cardozo

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. - Francis Marion Crawford

Thoughts of your mind have made you what you are, and thoughts of your mind will make you whatever you become from this day forward. - Catherine Ponder

Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right. - Henry Ford

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. -Napoleon Hill

Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it. - Napoleon Hill

The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help! - Napoleon Hill

Not The Way You Planned

Not The Way You Planned


Once there were three trees on a hill in the woods.





They were discussing their hopes and dreams when the first tree said, 'Someday I hope to be a great treasure chest. I could be filled with gold, silver and precious gems. I could be decorated with an intricate carving and everyone would see the beauty.'


Then the second tree said, 'Someday I will be a mighty ship. I will take Kings and Queens across the waters and sail to the corners of the world. People will feel safe in me because of the strength of my hull.'

Finally the third tree said, 'I want to grow to be the tallest and straightest tree in the forest. People will see me on top of the hill, look up to my branches, and think of the heavens and God and how close to them I am reaching. I will be the greatest tree of all time and people will always remember me.'

After a few years of praying that their dreams would come true, a group of woodsmen came upon the trees. When one came to the first tree he said, 'This looks like a strong tree, I think I should be able to sell the wood to a carpenter, and he began cutting it down. The tree was happy, because he knew the carpenter would make him into a treasure chest.

At the second tree the woodsman said, 'This looks like a strong tree. I will be able to sell it to the shipyard.' The second tree was happy because he knew he was on his way to becoming a mighty ship.

When the woodsmen came upon the third tree, the tree was frightened because he knew that if they cut him down his dreams would not come true. One of the men said,'I don't need anything special from my tree, I'll take this one,' and he cut it down.

When the first tree arrived at the carpenters, he was made into a feed box for animals. He was then placed in a barn and filled with hay. This was not at all what he had prayed for.

The second tree was cut and made into a small fishing boat. His dreams of being a mighty ship and carrying Kings had come to an end.

The third tree was cut into large pieces, and left alone in the dark.

The years went by, and the trees forgot about their dreams.

Then one day, a man and woman came to the barn. She gave birth and they placed the baby in the hay in the feed box that was made from the first tree. The man wished that he could have made a crib for the baby, but this manger would have to do. The tree could feel the importance of this event and knew that it had held the greatest treasure of all time.

Years later, a group of men got in the fishing boat made from the second tree. One of them was tired and went to sleep. While they were out on the water, a great storm arose and the tree didn't think it was strong enough to keep the men safe. The men woke the sleeping man, and he stood and said 'Peace' and the storm stopped. At this time, the tree knew that it had carried the King of Kings in its boat.

Finally, someone came and got the third tree. It was carried through the streets as the people mocked the man who was carrying it. When they came to a stop, the man was nailed to the tree and raised in the air to die at the top of a hill. When Sunday came, the tree came to realize that it was strong enough to stand at the top of the hill and be as close to God as was possible, because Jesus had been crucified on it.

The moral of this story is that when things don't seem to be going your way, always know that God has a plan for you. If you place your trust in Him, God will give you great gifts.

Each of the trees got what they wanted, just not in the way they had imagined...

We don't always know what God's plans are for us. We just know that His Ways are not our ways, but His ways are always best.

Please keep this moving....... Pass it on, so God may inspire more people on the way.

May your day be blessed. And until we meet again, may God cradle you in the palm of His hand.