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April 8, 2016
pt of the day
Everything that happens to us
leaves some trace behind;
everything contributes imperceptibly to make us what we are.
Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment.
Fully alive, fully aware.
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is a mystery.
And today?
Today is a gift.
That's why we call it the present.
April 9, 2016
pt of the day
“The difference between the impossible and the possible
lies in a person’s determination.”
“Without self-discipline,
success is impossible,
period.”
“Today I will do what others won’t,
so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.”
April 10, 2016
pt of the day
“If you want to be happy,
do not dwell in the past,
do not worry about the future,
focus on living fully in the present.”
“Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly…
but merely to be LIVED.
Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly,
magically LIVED.”
April 11, 2016
pt of the day
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone
not by violence
but by oft falling.
The race is not always to the swift,
but to those who keep on running.
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something
stand in the way of your doing it.
The time will pass anyway;
we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock,
perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred-and-first blow
it will split in two,
and I know it was not the last blow that did it,
but all that had gone before.
April 12, 2016
pt of the day
Commitment leads to action.
Action brings your dream closer.
First we form habits,
then they form us.
Conquer your bad habits
or they will conquer you.
The ultimate measure of a man is
not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.
April 13, 2016
pt of the day
If you do what you’ve always done,
you’ll get what you’ve always got.
There is only one way to avoid criticism:
do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
Only those who will risk going too far
can possibly find out how far one can go.
April 14, 2016
pt of the day
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired,
and success achieved.
Difficulty, my brethren,
is the nurse of greatness
a harsh nurse,
who roughly rocks her foster children into
strength and athletic proportion.
April 15, 2016
pt of the day
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
April 16, 2016
pt of the day
“The greater danger for most of us lies
not in setting our aim too high and falling short;
but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
“Dare to dream!
If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true,
your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place.
There is no limitation on what you can potentially achieve,
except for the limitation you choose to impose on your own imagination.
What you believe to be possible will always come to pass -
to the extent that you deem it possible.
It really is as simple as that.”
April 17, 2016
pt of the day
“Self-discipline is the cornerstone of any endeavor.”
“success awaits those who
steadfastly commit to any requisite sacrifice”
Delayed gratification, or deferred gratification,
is the ability to resist the temptation for an immediate reward
and wait for a later reward.
Generally, delayed gratification
is associated with resisting a smaller but more immediate reward
in order to receive a larger or more enduring reward later.
“The road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.”
“Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.”
April 18, 2016
pt of the day
“Life will break you.
Nobody can protect you from that,
and living alone won't either,
for solitude will also break you with its yearning.
You have to love.
You have to feel.
It is the reason you are here on earth.
You are here to risk your heart.
You are here to be swallowed up.
And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed,
or left, or hurt, or death brushes near,
let yourself sit by an apple tree
and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps,
wasting their sweetness.
Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”
Self discipline is that which,
next to virtue,
truly and essentially raises one man above another.
If you do not conquer self,
you will be conquered by self.
Self-respect is the root of discipline:
The sense of dignity grows
with the ability to say no to oneself.
RIP "Cat" Catherine Wheatley
Died April 19th, 2016 after a hard fight succumbed to her injuries
from a Motor Vehicle Accident a few weeks prior
I will send out information for her service as it comes available
Cat did 4 shows with BCABBA Western Canadians 2014, SWFC 2014, LBMC 2015 & Iron Ore 2015
she was training, prepping and qualified for BC Championships 2016
may you rest in peace, I will never forget your BEAUTIFUL SOUL....
I will miss you greatly,
Godspeed my sweet friend,
the world will not be the same without your bright light...
Love you always xoxo.
April 21, 2016
pt of the day
“Quitting is never an option on the road to success.
Find the way forward.
If you have a positive mindset
and are willing to persevere,
there is little that is beyond your reach.
The attitude of being ready to work
even in the face of challenges
and despite odds
is what will make all the difference in your life.”
"Cat" Catherine Wheatley's
CELEBRATION OF LIFE SERVICE
Sunday May 1st 1pm
Richmond Funeral Home
8420 Cambie Rd
April 22, 2016
pt of the day
Only those who dare to fail greatly
can ever achieve greatly.
Life is either a daring adventure
or nothing at all.
Being challenged in life is inevitable,
being defeated is optional.
April 24, 2016
pt of the day
When we least expect it,
life sets us a challenge to test our courage
and willingness to change;
at such a moment,
there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened
or in saying that we are not yet ready.
The challenge will not wait.
Life does not look back.
April 25, 2016
pt of the day
What does it take
To reach out and touch your dreams?"
To them I always say:
Are you hungry?
Are you thirsty?
Is it a fire that burns you up inside?
How bad do you want it?
How bad do you need it?
Are you eating, sleeping, dreaming
With that one thing on your mind?
How bad do you want it?
How bad do you need it?
Cause if you want it all
You've got to lay it all out on the line
April 25, 2016 ]
pt of the day
“Excellence is the Result of
Caring more than others think is Wise,
Risking more than others think is Safe,
Dreaming more than others think is Practical,
and Expecting more than others think is Possible.”
April 27, 2016
pt of the day
“If you want to be excellent at something,
it involves moving away from your comfort zone,
overcoming doubt, setbacks and failure.
Don't give up.
Keep plugging away and being persistent.
Success and winning will be yours.”
“You must practice the discipline of a champion
before you win the actual contest.
The appointment and opportunity must then come
to confirm what you have already become.”
April 28, 2016
pt of the day
“Many of life's failures are
people who did not realize how close they were to success
when they gave up.”
“Never confuse a single defeat
with a final defeat.”
“Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day
that says I'll try again tomorrow.”
THE DIF
APRIL 29, 2016
pt of the day
“Courage is resistance to fear,
mastery of fear
not absence of fear.”
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid,
but he who conquers that fear.”
“Life shrinks or expands
in proportion to one's courage.”
May 1, 2016
pt of the day
PACT TO PERSEVERE.
A Serious Commitment means
sticking with something even when,
and especially when, times are tough.
Just like the traditional marriage vows of “for richer or poorer, in sickness and health,”
true commitment is unwavering regardless of the circumstances.
When you make a commitment to someone or something,
you make a pact to persevere through the tough times together.
It won’t be easy, but it is almost always worth it.
“Everyone starts strong.
Success comes to those with unwavering commitment to be at the end.”
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May 2, 2016 pt of the day (one of my FAV POEM's)
DON’T YOU QUIT
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit-
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a fellow turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out.
Don't give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up
Whe he might have captured the victor's cup;
And he learned too late when the night came down,
How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint in the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It might be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.
May 3, 2016
pt of the day
“Many think that the mark of a great champion is
the nature and margin of their victories
and the peaks they scale and reach.
That’s only part of it.
The mark of the greatest of champions is
how they react and respond to defeat.
That is when they become enshrined in our hearts and minds
as they rise again and into the immortal pages of history.
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream.
The oak sleeps in the acorn,
the bird waits in the egg,
and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs.
Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
MAY 4, 2016
PT OF THE DAY
“The person without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.”
“A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing,
when such a determination is related to something noble
which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.”
May 5, 2016
pt of the day
“Goals are my north star.
My compass.
The map that guides me along the road I wish to travel.
Goals are motivations with wind in their sails
they carry me forward despite the storms.”
May 6, 2016
pt of the day
“Imperfection is beauty,
madness is genius
and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous
than absolutely boring.”
“Be yourself;
everyone else is already taken.”
May 9, 2016
pt of the day
“Courage is not having the strength to go on;
it is going on when you don't have the strength.”
“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”
“Often it is tenacity,
not talent, that rules the day.”
“Constant dripping hollows out a stone.”
May 10, 2016
pt of the day
“She is free in her wildness,
she is a wanderess,
a drop of free water.
She knows nothing of borders
and cares nothing for rules or customs.
'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against.
Her life flows clean,
with passion,
like fresh water.”
“If you want to live a happy life,
tie it to a goal,
not to people or things.”
May 12, 2016
pt of the day
To be nobody but yourself
in a world which is doing its best,
night and day,
to make you everybody else
means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight;
and never stop fighting.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Put your future in good hands
your own.
TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE
May 14, 2016
pt of the day
I dream,
therefore I become.
I see myself living a life where
I am not bound by the opinions others have of me,
one where I no longer concern myself with the judgments of others,
one in which I believe in myself and my talents, skills and capabilities.
I imagine, and therefore bring about,
a life where I do not need to justify my existence,
where I am free to be who I really am.
If you can imagine it,
you can achieve it;
if you can dream it,
you can become it.
May 15, 2016
pt of the day
Do or do not.
There is no try.
The most effective way to do it,
is to do it.
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
While we are free to choose our actions,
we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
If you want to accomplish something,
every choice you choose
from moment to moment
either takes you closer to
or further from your goals....
I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE.
I AM THE CAPTAIN OF MY SOUL !
May 16, 2016
pt of the day
Courage is very important.
Like a muscle,
it is strengthened by use.
Fear ends where faith begins....
Commit yourself to a dream . . .
Nobody who tries to do something great but fails
is a total failure.
Why?
Because he can always rest assured that
he succeeded in life's most important battle
he defeated the fear of trying.
May 17, 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 joy
but only after we have worked hard to practice it.
May 18, 2016
pt of the day
Attitude, to me, is more important than facts.
It is more important than the past,
the education, the money, than circumstances,
than failure, than successes,
than what other people think or say or do.
It is more important than appearance,
giftedness or skill.
Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thoughts,
and habits can be acquired.
An action repeated becomes an attitude realized.
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
You can change YOUR ATTITUDE as FAST as YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR MIND....
WHICH IS IN A SPLIT SECOND....
your attitude, your life, your whole experience
IS UP TO YOU !
May 19, 2016
pt of the day
"The power of the human will to compete
and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities
is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport."
"Victory isn't defined by wins or losses.
It is defined by effort.
If you can truthfully say,
'I did the best I could, I gave everything I had,'
then you're a winner."
"Sports remain a great metaphor for life's more difficult lessons.
It was through athletics that many of us
first came to understand that fear can be tamed;
that on a team the whole is more than the sum of its parts;
and that the ability to be heroic lies,
to a surprising degree,
within."
May 20, 2016
pt of the day
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer,
it sings because it has a song.
A flower doesn’t think of competing...
it just BLOOMS.
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.
May 21, 2016
pt of the day
And then the day came,
when the risk to remain tight in a bud
was more painful than the risk it took to Blossom.
Be daring, be different, be impractical,
be anything that will assert integrity of purpose
and imaginative vision
against the play-it-safers,
the creatures of the commonplace,
the slaves of the ordinary.
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.