cheering again

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; 
you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
James Allen

For goood or bad the month of August is dedicated to cheerleading and being Team mom. So I know most of todays thoughts will remain with my girls and cheering. Tomorrow I will be back at practice.
I know this should evoke deeper thoughts and if you read this I hope it does. I hope to start posting more meaningful words next week.
Have a happy day

Love doesn't just sit there like a stone: it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.--Ursula K. Le Guin
Everyone could use a new batch of love every day. Way too often, we forget to make a new batch. Then we end up eating hard, old, crumbly stuff that doesn't even taste good. We forget to talk with the people we love. We tell ourselves that they should "know" we love them, even if we haven't called to connect with them for a long time. So we expect them to live off hard, old, dry crumbs too!But baking a fresh hatch of love is a lot easier than baking bread. All we have to do is make a phone call, write a letter or an email, or stop by.

We need to "make" love every day in order to have love.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
Lao Tzu

We must gain power over own fears, addictions, insecurities, the things that hold us back from truly living to be truly content............. It can be done

Dreams

Dreams are but thoughts until their effects be tried.
William Shakespeare

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso


That is a thought worth thinking about for me. How many days, do I delay, going to the bank, mopping the floor, cutting the lawn, changing the sheets,....... baking a cake, learning to tye die for the kids, complementing them on job well done, jumping on the trampoline with them. Because I am SO BUSY............
I'll die without a perfect lawn, home, ect.........
But I won't die, without spending time with my girls. Reality is life is very short and kids grow so quick. I am going to see what they are up to NOW........... Jenn

Every achiever that I have ever met says, "My life turned around when I began to believe in me."
Dr. Robert Schuller

For so long after my husband left and I started on my own, I thought that I had done something wrong. I had failed as a wife. It started with forgiveness. First of myself for where I may have fell short. But then I had to forgive him for where he fell short. With prayer and thought, I did best. My ex husband is now my friend. I began to see my talents, my loving nature, my skills as a mother, and friend. I began to believe in me. I don't have it all together, but I am on my way. I see my "babies" thriving, I see myself making friends and feeling happy. I came to believe I was worth something.........

Listen

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, “What are you doing for others?”-

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sometimes we have so much to say, and the days events have us so full of ourselves and our problems we don't stop and look around. Notice our child looks sad, and needs to talk. Notice our teen is distant, notice our dog needs a walk. Little things.

Come home next time and take a moment to look at your family and see if you can see what they need and give them a little something.

The WakingTheodore Roethke I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.I learn by going where I have to go.We think by feeling. What is there to know?I hear my being dance from ear to ear.I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.Of those so close beside me, which are you?God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,And learn by going where I have to go.Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.Great Nature has another thing to doTo you and me; so take the lovely air,And, lovely, learn by going where to go.This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.What falls away is always. And is near.I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.I learn by going where I have to go.

GET GOING

Today I will let go of procrastination

Procrastination is so easy. I'll get the that in five minutes, make it ten. I need to send a few emails, visit my friends on facebook, oh this show is interesting. ( I want to learn how to organize my house.......) Before you know the day is gone. What could you have done, instead reading emails, chatting way to long with a friend on the phone.......

Clean up you yard, 3 loads of laundry, clean a bathroom.

Each day I set goals, small ones. Once I accomplish those things I seem to do more........

Life is short, if gardening, scrapbooking, painting bring you joy, get up and get going. The joy is so much better, when the work is done.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make your most important decisions when you are in the worst mood. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.- Wolf Dyke

Wolf Dyke quote is very wise. How many times have I read a person wrong when I was upset, rushed an important dicision just because I felt cold. My marriage ended during a very bleak time in my life. I have bi polar and was coming out of bad depression. My ex husbands father died three days before he told me goodbye. I often wonder if I had asked him to wait so I could fully recover and give him time to grieve if we would still be together. But that isn't how it went. We cut down our tree in the our Wintertime.

Please see the trees

I don't always see the trees but I try damn hard. This is worth reading, even though it is a bit long..............Jenni

See the Trees
By William Lambert

I lived in Alabama on a half-acre lot blessed huge oak trees that were 40 feet in diameter. They were HUGE! The house was laid out such that every bedroom faced the backyard. Each bedroom had a large picture window. The view was breathtaking. I enjoyed just looking at the trees. In the fall I would identify a particular leaf that was falling and watched it for what seemed liked 5 minutes before it fell to earth.
One day I invited this married couple over to enjoy the view from the bedroom window. I took them into the bedroom and excitedly pointed to the trees out of the window and exclaimed, "just look"!
After about 20 seconds there was no comment from the couple. I however, noticed a big frown on the woman's face.
I said, "What's wrong". She was reluctant to reply.
I insisted and again said, "What's wrong?"
She relented and said, "Don't you see those fingerprints on the glass?"
I turned and looked and there were what seemed to be fifty or more fingerprints on the glass. I ran for the Windex to clean the glass. The lady "Oh, I didn't mean for you to clean it now."
The morale here is this. That lady never saw the trees. Even when I tried to point them out, She missed it! I didn't see the fingerprints. I was looking through the glass not at it.
When the fingerprints were pointed out to me, I saw them and removed them. The lady never saw the trees. She focused on the fingerprints and she never got passed them.
Life is much like that. There are things in life that are good and things that are bad. You choose which things you want to focus on. I focus on the trees.
What are you focusing on?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
William Lambert has made teaching his life submitted this story for our MDI subscribers. With a Master's degree in Education, from Memphis State University, He is a former teacher in the Memphis City Schools System, where he won the prestigious Distinguished Teacher Award. He has published articles in the education and training arena. Some of the articles are: Liven up the Lecture Method, What You Say Is What You Get, Micro Videotaping and The Madison Avenue Approach (to Teaching). You can reach Mr. Lambert at wlambert7@comcast.net or visit his website http://www.motivateme.com

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Macaulay, Thomas B.

Think about it.............. I did

People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I do not believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, they make them.
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw was a man of many talents.

Born
26 July 1856(1856-07-26)Dublin, Ireland
Died
2 November 1950 (aged 94)Hertfordshire, England
Occupation
Playwright, critic, political activist
Nationality
Irish
Genres
Satire, Black comedy
Literary movement
Reformist Socialist
Notable award(s)
Nobel Prize in Literature1925
Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay1938 Pygmalion

The only man to win both Acedemy Award and Noble Prize Literature.

Seems to me he got up and looked for what he wanted

I forgive myself for having believed for so long that...
I was never good enough to have, get, be what I wanted.
Ceanne DeRohan

Having a failed marriage, trouble getting work, keeping up with house work, upset kids was all my fault. I believved. Lately I have to come to realize these things were actually not all my fault.. I was dumped with ton of problems and left by the man I loved not ever having paid a bill, worked on my yard, sad children at mid life. I have stopped blaming me and started accepting I am surviving hard times. Surviving the hard timess is giving me strength.

Live

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I have had my moments in life when I have shut down and hidden from life, love, the things that make me, me....... But I have come to see how foolish and futile it is. Hiding doesn't bring your husband back, keep your children small, find you job. Hiding simply an escape, and when you come out of hiding (which is difficult) The sadness, sorrow, loss, fear is still there. It's just that much harder to overcome. I try to face life, I do it by living one day at a time. jenni