Jaguar Running Animation

Worthwhile Purpose

 Know what it is you want, set some goals to create the circumstances you desire and take action now. Don't wait around for the perfect time to get started.  There is power in action so start your journey to success.

"People with goals succeed because they know
where they are going. It's as simple as that."
- Earl Nightingale

Success or failure as a human being is not a matter of luck, circumstances, fate, or any of the other tiresome old clichés.  Those are only excuses.

The power to achieve the life of your dreams is in your hands—and the first step toward activating it is identifying the specific goals that will make your dreams real. 

After all, it’s much easier to get what you want out of life when you know where you’re going.

A mission statement is only a paragraph long, but it has specific, measurable outcomes and a deadline for accomplishing that outcome. It’s truly the best way to start your journey to success.

“You cannot change your destination overnight, 

but you can change your direction overnight.”

--Jim Rohn

Creating a mission statement will help you change your direction. In just five minutes from now, you will have made the shift from an ordinary existence to an extraordinary existence.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthwhile Ideal.

Eternal Spring

Step by step
a new-born lamb
eternal spring 

Zen Master Soen Nakagawa

1955

In his "Preface" to Endless Vow: The Zen Path of Soen Nakagawa (presented with an Introduction by Eido Tai Shimano, Shambhala 1996) Kazuaki Tanahashi writes: "Zen Master Soen Nakagawa was a key figure in the transmission of Zen Buddhism from Japan to the Western world. As abbot of the historic Ryutaku Monastery, he trained monks and lay practitioners. Among them were Robert Aitken and Philip Kapleau, who later became two of the first Westerners to teach Zen in the United States . . . Soen Nakagawa was also an extraordinary poet. In Japan his haiku are renowned, even though no substantial collection of his work has been made available to the general public."

Attitude Adjustment

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

 - Mary Engelbreit

Filosofizing Frank

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra

The Way You Wear Your Hat (1997)

The Way You Wear Your Hat : Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin' (1997) by Bill Zehme

• I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

• For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad ... but I could never find me a double hammock.

• Fear is the enemy of logic.

• The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.

• [On religion] I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, benzedrine or a bottle of Jack Daniel's.

Living Simply

1. Accurate Self Knowledge
2. Purging the Unnecessary
3. The Willingness to Say “No”
4. A Focus on Conscious Consumption
5. Cultivating Patience
6. Mindfulness
7. A Desire for Less

Python Love

Photos of the Day 02/14 - The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

Erroll Escobar kisses his partner Princess Madrolejo as they pose for photographers while carrying a 16-foot and 200 kg Albino Burmese Python during a Valentine's Day presentation inside a Malabon zoo, north of Manila.
A survey conducted by Social Weather Stations (SWS) from December 3 to December 7 last year shows that only three out of 10 Filipinos would change their religion in the name of love. The SWS noted that the unwillingness to change their religion for their loved ones is strong in all religions, a local media reported.

 

 

Happy Valentine's Day

Patience

SMART Goals

Mud Volcano

Uploaded by baraaza on May 4, 2011
El Totumo Volcano (Volcán de Lodo El Totumo) is an active mud volcano located near Cartagena Colombia. It's great for a mud bath and natural spa treatment. For more information on things to do in Cartagena see: http://www.baraaza.com/Cartagena-2559198/Travel-Guide.aspx
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