Q & A with Dawn Alison

Jan 18, 2016
pt of the day

“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others
and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us,
and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak,
the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
“Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs;
it's actually quite common.
The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.”

Wise words below from Ms.Olympia Lenda Murray....
"The road less traveled is like an obstacle course. Blaze your own trail!
View challenges as opportunities to exercise your Mental, Physical and Spiritual Muscles!
TEST THYSELF ! KNOW THYSELF! KNOWLEDGE IS POWER !!"

It takes alot more courage to BLAZE YOUR OWN TRAIL than follow sheepishly the herd....
what's that term? "SHEEPLE" .....
lion care not for opinion of sheep !

It takes alot more courage to BLAZE YOUR OWN TRAIL than follow sheepishly the herd....

Self-explanatory

Jan 20, 2016
pt of the day

“Don't always be appraising yourself,
wondering if you are better or worse than others.
"I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake;
"my business is to Create."
Besides,
since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time,
you are incomparable. ”

Jan 21, 2016
pt of the day


“No matter who you are,
no matter what you did,
no matter where you've come from,
you can always change,
become a better version of yourself.”
“This was when I learned that you have to give up your life as you know it
to get a new one:
that sometimes you need to let go of everything you're clinging to and start over,
whether because you've outgrown it
or because it's not working anymore,
or because it was wrong for you in the first place.”
“We cannot change our past...
we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me
and 90% of how I react to it.
And so it is with you...
we are in charge of our Attitudes.”

Jan 22, 2016
pt of the day

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.
If you don't have any problems,
you don't get any seeds.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break,
that its heart may stand in the sun,
so must you know pain....
Accept the seasons of your heart,
even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields....
An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward.
When life is dragging you back with difficulties,
it means it's going to launch you into something great.
So just focus,
and keep aiming.

Jan 23, 2016
pt of the day

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
It is the words that speak boldly of your intentions.
And the actions which speak louder than the words.
It is making the time when there is none.
Coming through time after time after time,
year after year after year.
Commitment is the stuff character is made of;
the power to change the face of things.
It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.
A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.

Jan 24, 2016
pt of the day

Never allow anyone to rain on your parade
and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day.
Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character,
are required to set up in the fault-finding business.
Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.
Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy.
Guard your fragile life carefully.
Only God can shape a flower,
but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

Jan 26, 2016
pt of the day

The best thing in life is
to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams,
to embrace life and to live everyday with passion,
to lose and still keep the faith
and to win while being grateful.
All of this because the world belongs to those who
dare to go after what they want.
And because life is really too short to be insignificant.

Jan 27, 2016
pt of the day

A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards,
and makes no way on the smoothest road;
a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest,
and will reach his purpose,
if there be even a little worthiness in it.
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder
a waif, a nothing, a no man.
Have a purpose in life and having it,
throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Jan 27, 2016
pt of the day

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim,
have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high,
one which sometimes seemed impossible.
Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind what he wishes to do.
He puts away all doubt.
It makes no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be;
if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it,
you will do it.

Jan 28, 2016
pt of the day

Consult not your fears
but your hopes and your dreams.
Think not about your frustrations,
but about your unfulfilled potential.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,
but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Jan 29, 2016
pt of the day

The galleries are full of critics.
They play no ball, they fight no fights.
They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing.
Down in the arena are the doers.
They make mistakes because they try many things.
The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure.
He is the one who never tries anything.
His is the brake on the wheel of progress.
And yet it cannot be truly said he makes no mistakes,
because his biggest mistake is the very fact that he tries nothing, does nothing,
except criticize those who do things.

Jan 30, 2016
pt of the day

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Develop your willpower
so that you can make yourself do what you should do,
when you should do it,
whether you feel like it or not.
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed.
No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined.
No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled.
No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Jan 21, 2016
pt of the day


It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly; who errs,
who comes short again and again,
because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
but who does actually strive to do the deeds;
who knows great enthusiasms,
the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
who neither know victory nor defeat.

Feb 1, 2016
pt of the day

The vision must be followed by the venture.
It is not enough to stare up the steps
we must step up the stairs.
There is no moment like the present.
The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him
can have no hope from them afterwards:
they will be dissipated, lost, and perish
in the hurry and scurry of the world,
or sunk in the slough of indolence.
Success will never be a big step in the future,
success is a small step taken just now.

Feb 2, 2016
pt of the day

“Learn and train yourself to take the hits in life.
Obstacles, barriers and setbacks will come.
What matters is how you tackle them,
work your way around or find your way through them.”
“Remember that setbacks are only challenges in disguise.
Look at them as lessons . . .
don't waste time beating yourself up.
Just get back on track
and focus on what you want.
it’s up to you ,
and you will do it!”
The best preparation for tomorrow is
doing your best today.
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Feb 3, 2016
pt of the day

I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point.
The turning point was when they made a clear,
specific unequivocal decision
that they were not going to achieve success.
Some people make that decision at 15
and some people make it at 50,
and most people never make it at all.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary
entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well.
Sometimes your greatest asset is simply
your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else

Feb 4, 2016
pt of the day

Courage is reclaiming your life
after a devastating event robs you of your confidence and self-esteem.
It is facing tomorrow with a firm resolve to reach deep within yourself
to find another strength, another talent...
It is taking yourself to another level of your own existence
where you are once again whole, productive, special...
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear
not absence of fear.
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.

Feb 5, 2016
pt of the day

“The purpose of life is to live it,
to taste experience to the utmost,
to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
“You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.
Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
There is no other land;
there is no other life but this.”
“I, not events,
have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.
I can choose which it shall be.
Yesterday is dead,
tomorrow hasn't arrived yet.
I have just one day, today,
and I'm going to be happy in it.”

Self-explanatory

Continued from above

Feb 8, 2016
pt of the day

“Desire is the key to motivation,
but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal
a commitment to excellence
that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
“There’s a difference between interest and commitment.
When you’re interested in doing something,
you do it only when circumstance permit.
When you’re committed to something,
you accept no excuses, only results.”

Feb 9, 2016
pt of the day

“Winning is the science of being totally prepared.”
“Discipline yourself and others won’t need to.”
“There’s no substitute for hard work. It is the price of success.”
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

Feb 10, 2016
pt of the day

Our ability to commit will determine our ability to succeed,
prevail and overcome.
Commitment is the difference between goal and a wish.
Anybody can have a hope and wish,
but what matters most is the resolve to make it happen.

Feb 11, 2016
pt of the day

"Pain is temporary.
It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year,
but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place.
If I quit, however,
it lasts forever."
"I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat."
"You're never a loser until you quit trying."

Feb 12. 2016
pt of the day

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself.
But the self is not something one finds,
it is something one creates.”
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
I am not what happened to me.
I am what I choose to become.

Feb 13, 2015
pt of the day

Life is a struggle.
Life will through curveballs at you,
it will humble you,
it will attempt to break you down
And just when you think things are starting to look up,
life will smack you back down with ruthless indifference.
The reason most people never achieve their dreams is
because they simply give up.
Life was never meant to be easy
its a constant struggle,
with extreme lows and extreme highs.
Remember that the times when its most important to persevere
are the times that you will be most tested.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there’s is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end
requires courage
winner is someone who gets up one more time
than he is knocked down.”

Feb 14, 2016
pt of the day



“Let me tell you something you already know.
The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows.
It's a very mean and nasty place
and I don't care how tough you are
it will beat you to your knees
and keep you there permanently if you let it.
You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life.
But it ain't about how hard ya hit.
It's about how hard you can get hit
and keep moving forward.
How much you can take
and keep moving forward.
That's how winning is done!”

Feb 15, 2016
pt of the day


“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
“Little by little, one travels far”
“Success is the sum of small efforts,
repeated day in and day out.”
Our life is made up by moments,
the choice we make from moment to moment
either takes us closer to or further from our goals....
take responsibility for yourself, your body, your health, your life
CHOOSE WISELY, time flies....

Feb 16, 2016
pt of the day


“About all you can do in life is be who you are.
Some people will love you for you.
Most will love you for what you can do for them,
and some won't like you at all.”
“Follow your inner moonlight;
don't hide the madness.”
“To be yourself
in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.”

Feb 17, 2016
pt of the day


“Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them
a desire, a dream, a vision.”
“It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly;
who errs, who comes short again and again,
because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
but who does actually strive to do the deeds;
who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst,
if he fails,
at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
who neither know victory nor defeat.”

Feb 18, 2016
pt of the day

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
A disciplined mind leads to happiness,
and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.
First we form habits then they form us.
Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.
“For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.”
“We must all suffer from one of two pains:
the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
The difference is discipline weighs ounces
while regret weighs tons.”

Feb 19, 2016
pt of the day

Whatever we expect with confidence
becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
The problem with worry is that
we attract the very thing we are trying to avoid.
we live a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Life keeps its agreement with us through our beliefs,
because whatever we think about,
we bring about.
Life is like a mirror.
It reflects back whatever image we present to it.
WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT YOU BRING ABOUT....
IF YOU WANT TO BE LEAN FOCUS ON BEING LEAN,
DO NOT FOCUS ON NOT BEING LEAN ENOUGH,
OR I CAN NEVER LOSE THIS FAT....
think about what you want, focus on that,
and believe it, and do everything you are supposed to do
and YOU WILL BRING IT INTO YOUR REALITY.....
think it, believe it, just do it, BE IT

Feb 20, 2016
pt of the day

“There is nothing more rare,
nor more beautiful,
than a woman being unapologetically herself;
comfortable in her perfect imperfection.
To me,
that is the true essence of beauty.”

Feb 21, 2016
pt of the day

Defining myself,
as opposed to being defined by others,
is one of the most difficult challenges each of us face.
By your own soul,
learn to live
And if men thwart you take no heed.
If men hate you have no care.
Sing your song,
dream your dream,
Hope your hope
and pray your prayer.
TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE....
BE YOU xoxo

Feb 22, 2016
pt of the day

“The brick walls are there for a reason.
The brick walls are not there to keep us out.
The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.
Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough.
They’re there to stop the other people.”
“You may encounter many defeats,
but you must not be defeated.
In fact
it may be necessary to encounter the defeats,
so you can know who you are,
what you can rise from,
how you can still come out of it.”

2-23-16
pt of the day

Failure will never overtake me
if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
What does it take to be a champion?
Desire, dedication, determination, concentration
and the will to NEVER GIVE UP not matter what life throws your way,
no matter how many times you get knocked down,
no matter how long it takes,
its an unrelenting drive to SUCCEED.
DETERMINATION, SACRIFICE, COMMITMENT, DEDICATION = SUCCESS

Feb 24, 2016
pt of the day

Do or do not.
There is no try.
All the Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas,
Layin' in the sun,
Talkin' bout the things
They woulda-coulda-shoulda done...
But those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas,
All ran away and hid,
From one little did.
While we are free to choose our actions,
we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
BY NOT DOING SOMETHING YOU ARE STILL CHOOSING,
AND YOU STILL GET A RESULT FROM NOT DOING
WHAT YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD DO
TO TAKE YOU CLOSER TO
RATHER THAN FURTHER FROM YOUR GOALS....
sooooooo,
JUST DO IT AND REAP YOUR REWARDS

Feb 25, 2016
pt of the day

Each of us is
the sum total of the decisions we make each day.
Every choice carries a consequence.
For better or worse,
each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor.
There are not exceptions.
If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment,
why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?
Good thoughts bear good fruit,
bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

Feb 27, 2016
pt of the day

I define self-control,
in the beginning of life,
as the choice of achieving what I really want
by doing things I really don't want to do.
Once this becomes a habit,
discipline becomes
the choice of achieving what I really want
by doing the very things I now want to do!
I really believe that a disciplined life becomes a
but only after we have worked hard to practice it.
If you can win complete mastery over self,
you will easily master all else.
To triumph over self is the perfect victory.