Everything Happens For A Reason

Sometimes people come into your Life and you know right away that they were meant to be there to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson, or to help you figure out who you are or who you want to become.

You never know who these people may be, a roommate, a neighbor, a professor, a friend, a lover, but when you lock eyes with them, you know at that very moment they will affect your Life in some profound way.

Sometimes things happen to you that may seem horrible, painful and unfair at first, but in reflection you find that without overcoming those obstacles, you would have never have realized your potential, strength, will power, or heart.

Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness, and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul.

Without these small tests, whatever they may be, Life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere. It would be safe and comfortable but dull and utterly pointless.

The people you meet who affect your Life and the Success and downfalls you experience help to create who you are and who you become. Even the bad experience can be learned form. In fact, they are sometimes the most important ones...

If someone hurts you, betrays you, or breaks your heart, forgive them for they have helped you learn about Trust and the importance of being Cautious to whom you open your heart to.

If someone Loves you, Love them back unconditionally, not only because they Love you, but because they are teaching you to Love.

Make every day count. Appreciate every moment and take from it everything that you possibly can, for you may never be able to experience it again.

Talk to people you have never talked to before, and actually listen. Let yourself fall in Love, break free and set your sights high. Hold your head up because you have every right to.

Tell yourself you are a great individual and believe in yourself: for if you don't believe in yourself, no one else will believe in you, either.

You can make of your Life anything you wish.

Create you own Life and then go out and live it with absolutely no regrets.

Have a Fighting Spirit and never hesitate to get back in a struggle!

Most importantly, if you Love someone tell them, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.

And learn a lesson in Life each day you live. Someday everything will all make perfect sense.

So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, and keep reminding yourself that Everything Happens For A Reason!

The Secret to You... A Gift from the Secret Scrolls

The Secret(book) is the best selling self help book in 2006, written by Rhonda Byrne. The book has been translated in 44 languages and sold an amazing 21 million copies worldwide. This video, created by the Secret team, allows you to play and read to yourself everyday. Enjoy!

Today is the Beginning of my New Life

I am Starting Over today

All Good Things are coming to me today

I am Grateful to be Alive

I see Beauty all around me

I Live with Passion and Purpose

I take time to Laugh and Play every day

I am Awake, Energized and Alive

I Focus on all the Good Things in Life... and Give Thanks for them

I am at Peace and One with everything

I feel the Love, the Joy, the Abundance

I am Free to Be Myself

I am Magnificence in human form

I am the Perfection of Life

I am Grateful to be... Me!

Today is the Best day of my Life

THE SECRET...

40 Ways to Live Life Without Regrets

* 1. Realize that it's okay to make mistakes
Just make sure to learn from your past mistakes, forgive yourself and move on.

* 2. Make your Health and Wellness a top priority
and always take care of yourself so you're ready to take care of others.

* 3. Follow your own Path
not one that others want you to follow.

* 4. Find the Humor in Life
and Laugh like there is no tomorrow.

* 5. Relax and Move with the Flow
of Life by being Unafraid of Change.

* 6. Be Adventurous
by trying New Things and taking more Risks.

* 7. Have more Intellectual Curiosity
and Embrace Creativity.

* 8. Try to find Happiness
with as many different people as you can.

* 9. Think for Yourself
instead of letting other people's opinions influence you too much.

* 10. Try not to judge people
before you get to know them.

* 11. Be Thankful for what you have now
instead of think about what you don't have.

* 12. Wish Well upon everyone Equally
and try to admire with envy.

* 13. Share your Happiness with others
instead of hoarding it all for yourself.

* 14. Don't try to change someone
Love who they are now.

* 15. Enjoy the Journey,
not just the destination.

* 16. Know that Happiness is Bigger
than any bank account.

* 17. Control negative thoughts
so that they don't contribute to the outcome of your life.

* 18. Use your Energy Wisely
because spending energy complaining, worrying or being impatient is just wasted energy.

* 19. Be Bold.
Find the Courage to change things that should be changed and accept that there are some things that cannot be changed.

* 20. Love your Work
If you don't currently Love what you do, figure out what you would Love, and take the First Step toward that Life.

* 21. Turn your discontent into a mystery
and enjoy trying to solve it.

* 22. Face problems from different angles
in order to find Solutions.

* 23. Gain Independence 
by realizing that on this Earth we are all Dependent upon each other.

* 24. Change your Perspective
by taking on a Wider view of things.

* 25. Don't waste time
trying to bring disagreeable people around to liking you.

* 26. Become the person
who would like to spend the rest of your Life with.

* 27. Be Honest with yourself
and others by saying what you mean and meaning what you say.

* 28. Treat people with Respect
and Compassion.

* 29. Live in the Now
by Loving the Present and being Aware of your Thoughts and Actions.
Think Happy Thoughts and Speak Powerful Words.

* 30. Try not to put things off
until later.

* 31. Never hold grudges.

* 32. Face your fears head on
and try to do the things that you think you cannot do.

* 33. Spend time with people who make you happy
while also not depending on other people for your own Happiness.

* 34. Stand up for Yourself
and others and don't let anyone or anything hold you back.

* 35. Be Yourself
and Love who your are now.

* 36. Be a Participant in Life
rather than an observer.

* 37. Do the things that you Love to do
as much as you can.

* 38. Write out a list of Goals
and achieve them by doing them Step by Step.
Don't Give Up when things get difficult.

* 39. Do something everyday that makes you feel Proud of yourself
commit random acts of Kindness whenever you get the chance.

* 40. And always

Keep on Moving Forward.

HAPPINESS!

Happiness!! That's what I want to achieve in every day of my Life! =)

Be HAPPY!

* Think, Act, Be... Think Happy, Act Happy, Be Happy - David Baird

* Happiness is when what you Think, what you Say, and what you Do are in Harmony - Gandhi

* Happiness is a way of travel, not a destination - Roy Goodman

* People are as Happy as they make up their minds to be - Abraham Lincoln

* Think of all the beauty still left around you and be Happy - Anne Frank

* The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is Laughter - Mark Twain

* Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart - Anthony J D'Angelo

* If you never did, You should. These things are Fun, and Fun is good - Dr Seuss

* The hours that make us Happy, make us Wise - Mark Mansfield

* It is only possible to live "Happily Ever After" on a day to day basis - Margaret Bonnano

* Smile, it enhances your face value - Dolly Parton

* From there to here, and here to there, Funny things are everywhere - Dr Seuss

* Don't worry, Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin

29 Ways to Stay CREATIVE!

Here are 29 Ways to keep your Brain Working  and Stay CREATIVE! I find these very Useful. Take a look at the List and start making your own!

1. Make LISTS

2. Carry a NOTEBOOK Everywhere

3. Try free WRITING

4. GET AWAY from the Computer

5. Quit Beating yourself up

6. Take BREAKS

7. SING in the Shower

8. Drink COFFEE

9. LISTEN to New MUSIC

10. Be OPEN

11. Surround yourself with CREATIVE PEOPLE

12. Get FEEDBACK

13. COLLABORATE

14. DON'T GIVE UP

15. PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE

16. ALLOW yourself to make MISTAKES

17. Go Somewhere New

18. Count Your BLESSINGS

19. Get Lots of REST

20. TAKE RISKS

21. BREAK the RULES

22. Don't Force It

23. READ a Page of the DICTIONARY

24.CREATE a FRAMEWORK

25. STOP trying to be Someone Else's Perfect

26. Got an IDEA? WRITE it Down

27. CLEAN you Workspace

28. Have FUN

29. FINISH Something

Philosophy of LIFE

A man with one watch knows what time it is; A man with two watches is never quite sure.

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.

Look at Life through the wind-shield, not the rear-view mirror.

Nothing brings you peace but yourself.

People may doubt what you say, but they will Believe what you do.

Be Nice to people on your way up, because you'll need them on your way down.

Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted.

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it.

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

Courage is not a lack of fear, but the ability to to act while facing fear.

You've got to do your own Growing no matter how tall your father was.

The best way to predict your future is to Create it.

It is better to be hated for what you are then to be loved for what you are not.

Don't worry about the people in your past, there's a reason they didn't make it to your future.

Happiness has one advantage over wealth; no one can borrow it.

Everything happens for a Reason.

Forgiveness is not something we do for other people, We do it for ourselves to get well and move on.

What's different in you makes you Beautiful.

A Motivational video created by a 13 year old

QUOTES FROM THE VIDEO:

Ernest Hemingway: Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.

Abraham Lincoln: Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Emily Dickinson: Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Dale Carnegie: People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they're doing.

Albert Einstein: Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

G. K. Chesterton: I owe my success to having  listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Arthur C. Clarke: The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Confucius: Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Thomas J. Watson: Encouragement is a necessary part of supervison.

Aristole: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in the kingdom of the blind.

George S. Patton: Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."

Thornton Wilder: Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment everyday.

St. Clement of Alexandra: If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

Albert Einstein: Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.