One resolution I have made

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:
To rise above the little things."

-- John Burroughs

Don't stop making accomplishment. Start from little to bigger things.

What do you have to finish today?

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action

"A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a
new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided."

-- Tony Robbins

The decisions we make must have a corresponding action. It is putting dreams and words into reality.

How many times you decided without action?

Remember that wherever your heart is

"Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find
your treasure."

-- Paulo Coelho

What near to your heart, is what you also treasure. 

What if, the treasure is near to our heart?

I will never put my name on a product that does not have the best that is in me

"I will never put my name on a product that does not have the
best that is in me."

-- John Deere

Sometimes we attached our self to things that does not affiliate to us. We must only be identified to the products that  belong to us, or product that we posses and extract our best.

Do you compromise for the sake of little things?

Become a student of change

"Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will
remain constant."

-- Anthony J. D'Angelo

You must learn, accept, and implement change, to be change constantly.

Is there a reservation in the process of completely changing?

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."

-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The best that you brought out today will be harvested tomorrow.

How will you manage tomorrow this day?

There is no such thing as a weird human being

"There is no such thing as a weird human being. It's just that
some people require more understanding than others."

-- Tom Robbins

I believed that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. We need to learn and see more to be able to appreciate the things around us, especially human beings.

Do you appreciate your appearance?

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes

"If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you
learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you
handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is
never quit, never quit, never quit."

-- Bill Clinton

Take your mistakes positively, make them as source of strength. Don't quit when you feel like you can't take it. Insist and resist. 

Assuming that you're about to achieved something but you feel like quitting. How should you manage it?

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are

"You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you
are. You are what you are!"

-- John Lennon

Have courage to tell about yourself, don't feel ashamed. Remember that you're what you are and no one else is like you.

How proud you are about yourself? 

You must never feel badly about making mistakes

"You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained
Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from
them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right
reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons."

-- Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

As part of improvement, in doing better things you will always encounter mistakes that becomes a measures or guide to get things done better.

Can you improve something without mistakes? 

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them

"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let
them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness,
insight. When we do the best we can, we never know what
miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."

-- Helen Keller

Our weaknesses are normal, but don't let it direct us. Use them in a way that could make us different from what is expected.

Is it possible to change and improve the original you?

If you can't change your fate

"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."

-- Amy Tan

They say that our life is directed, but we can do more things to improve and change its course of destiny.

Do you believe that your attitude determines your fate?

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others

"It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If
you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to
the world by playing your role in the concert."

-- Jacques Yves Cousteau

The small talent or skill we have can be used to let the world know about us through sharing.

Can you improve without participation?

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe

"A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe,
and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The capability of thinking intelligently is a great blessing that should always be acknowledge from the provider.

 Is it a chance that you're thinking well?

There is only one success

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in
your own way."

-- Christopher Morley

Different person has different meaning for success, the simple explanation of success is being able to attained where you are now.

Is it hard to get succeed?

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All
life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the
better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your
coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly
rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be
so afraid of a tumble."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Later, you will put more regret on the things that you have not done than on the mistakes you've committed.

Which is better, no actions or more mistakes? 

Apply yourself both now and in the next life

"Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort,
you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot
have an abundant crop without cultivation."

-- Plato

If we will just look around without using our hands, we will never experience how good life it is.

Can we achieve something by looks?

Knowing others is intelligence

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true
wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is
true power."

-- Lao-Tzu

Acquiring knowledge provides better understanding, but knowing one self will secure and create more opportunity.

What is more important, knowing ourself or others?

The man who makes no mistakes

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make
anything."

-- Edward Phelps

No mistakes means no accomplishment.

What controls us not to commit mistake for good?

Laughter is the tonic

Our inspiration..
If you can't find good reason to laugh, look or listen at something funny.

Quote of the day..
"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain."

-- Charlie Chaplin

Bits for Moving Up.

Bring your mode in a good situation, have many reasons to laugh.

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can
start today and make a new ending."

-- Maria Robinson

We always live forward, given mistakes are reasons for us to be corrected.

How do we start a new beginning to thrust forward?

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best."

-- Epictetus

Don't go with people who put you down.

How would you perform in an environment that people around are trying to put you down?

Integrity

"Integrity is the essence of everything successful."

-- Richard Buckminster Fuller

You must be successful to earn integrity.

What should we do to become successful?

Though I might travel afar

"Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry
with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves
reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are
only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its
condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze
inward. Correct yourself and your world will change."

-- Kirsten Zambucka 

We are affected or affecting our environment, what we have is what we have acquired. Let us change ourselves to change the world.

Have you gone to a place that you haven't change?

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and
to work and to play and to look up at the stars."

-- Henry Van Dyke 

Life must not be taken for granted. It can sustain but can't hold on. Time is valuable as life.

How do we use our life?

Everyone has special talents

"Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours
and use them well."

-- John Templeton 

We have given talent, but doesn't  use it. Because we don't explore the different purpose of it. If we only use every talent we have, it is enough to sustain our needs.

When will we motivate ourself to use and show talent?

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty

"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm
and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can
have if only we seek them with our eyes open."

-- Jawaharlal Nehru 

We must take the opportunity to roam around and appreciate the presence of every gift that are around. Never miss the opportunity because we will not stay here for long.

How do we take the given opportunity for us?

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that
one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a
strong won't."

-- Henry Ward Beecher 


Is it possible that perseverance and obstinacy goes together?

You cannot run away from weakness

"You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight
it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where
you stand?"

-- Robert Louis Stevenson 



Is it proper to disregard your weaknesses?

Human beings

"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds,
can change the outer aspects of their lives."

-- William James 



How will you start changing your attitudes?

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes
your smile can be the source of your joy."

-- Thich Nhat Hanh 



Who has that joy that also possess a smile?

The people who get on in this world

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up
and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't
find them, make them."

-- George Bernard Shaw 



How do people face circumstances?

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you

"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs
and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking
you with a sharp stick called 'truth.'"

-- Dan Rather 



Do someone believed in your dream? 

There is no such thing as 'on the way out

"There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are
still doing something interesting and good; you're in the
business because you're breathing."

-- Louis Armstrong 



What is the best business you have in mind?
If you have, jot it down or start creating something that can be a source or solution.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change

 "I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods
when I nod; my shadow does that much better."

-- Plutarch 

What is your concept about friend?

It's hard to detect good luck

"It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like
something you've earned."

-- Frank Howard Clark 



What are the indications of good luck?

The more you find out about the world

"The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities
there are to laugh at it."

-- Bill Nye 



What opportunities are you looking for?

Faith is taking the first step

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the
whole staircase."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 



What do you think is the manifestation of faith?

There is progress

"There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward!
The thing is to move!"

-- Edgar Cayce 



How is development and progress related?

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs

"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do
against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold
increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like
manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great
wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind."

-- Leonardo Da Vinci 



So how does patience develop?

Birds are a miracle

"Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a
finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain."

-- Doug Coupland 



How do birds sustain themselves?

Quality questions create a quality life

"Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people
ask better questions, and as a result, they get better
answers."

-- Anthony Robbins 



What questions do you have?

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are

"Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more
fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of
the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we
are among the privileged."

-- Helen Keller 



How do you compare?

I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles

"I've always found that anything worth achieving will always
have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive
and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to
whatever it is that you want to accomplish."

-- Chuck Norris 



Are you afraid of obstacles?

You have it easily in your power

"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of
this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of
sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged.
Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today,
but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime."

-- Dale Carnegie 



How can words be effective?

Ideals are like stars

 "Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them
with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of
waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you
will reach your destiny."

-- Carl Schurz 

What is your ideals that are not yet achieved?

Avoid the crowd

 "Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the
chess player, not the chess piece."

-- Ralph Charell 

How will you accomplish something without others?

Never bend your head

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world
straight in the eye."

-- Helen Keller 





Is there another way to look the world not using our eyes?

Never bear more than one trouble at a time

"Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear
three kinds -- all they have had, all they have now, and all
they expect to have."

-- Edward Everett Hale 



What kind of trouble do you always have?

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar

"Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable
to the child as it is to the caterpillar."

-- Bradley Miller 



How do you value yourself and your fellow?