Monday Motivator

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
--Brian Tracy

Turning 40

I turn 40 in two hours.

• I feel remarkably OK so far.
  
• The main thing I realize is that 40 is not as old as I thought it was when I was young.
• I don't feel old, but I do feel wiser.
• In may ways I feel like I no longer have to prove myself -- I feel like I have arrived, which is nice.
• I feel a sense of possibility.
• I feel grateful for my life and the people in it.

My sister inspired me to do 40 things for turning 40. Thus far, I have done 8 things, but figure I have a year to finish the list. Here is the start.

1. Get a Physical
2. Birthday Massage
3. Invest in Skin Care
4. Spend More Time By The Water
5. Get a Tattoo
6. See Howard Jones
7. Stay at a Beach House
8. Take More Walks

I heard a song this morning by Wade Imre Morissette that said "Joy on the inside, peace on the outside". That is what I want for myself this year, and through my 40s.

Monday Motivator

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

-- Henry David Thoreau

Monday Motivator

My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.
--Muhammad Yunus

Monday Motivator

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I'll try again tomorrow'.
-- Mary Ann Radmacher

Monday Motivator

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.
-- Wayne Dyer

Monday Motivator

Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets.
-- Clark Moustakas