Thank you Lord for teaching us how to make You the center of our marriage. Humble us to grow beyond our ego, pride and past hurts. Help us to establish and grow the love Christ in us to show each other kindness, trust, patience, forgiveness and divine love. Help me Lord to honor the qualities of my mate. Teach me how to pray for my spouse.

Empower us with courage to speak up for anything out of order in our relationship. Soften our tongue and heart where it has become like stone. Strengthen my flesh and self-esteem where it has become weak

Whenever we lose the gratitude and passion for each other, guide us in ways to relight the candle of passion that can burn out from stress and time. Bless us to not only see, but honor one another. Help us to not only listen, but hear each other. Bless us to not only cherish one another, but nourish each other's dreams and spiritual gifts.

We surrender our marriage and our personal power struggles to You. Teach us to be less controlling and more collaborative in our decisions and problem solving skills. Quicken our minds so we may know how to please, protect and provide for each other. Bless our union to grow stronger, wiser, peaceful and committed. Bring into our circle of friends, examples of healthy committed marriages. Let our children, family and friends see Christ through our example.

Thank you Lord for covering our home with your grace, mercy and favor. Today is a new day that I choose to love, respect and serve my spouse. Give us both the wisdom, patience, love and faith not to give up on each other." ~ written by Jewel Diamond Taylor

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Each of us has two distinct choices to make about what we will do with our lives. The first choice we can make is to be less than we have the capacity to be. To earn less. To have less. To read less and think less. To try less and discipline ourselves less. These are the choices that lead to an empty life. These are the choices that, once made, lead to a life of constant apprehension instead of a life of wondrous anticipation.

And the second choice? To do it all! To become all that we can possibly be. To read every book that we possibly can. To earn as much as we possibly can. To give and share as much as we possibly can. To strive and produce and accomplish as much as we possibly can. All of us have the choice.

To do or not to do. To be or not to be. To be all or to be less or to be nothing at all.
Like the tree, it would be a worthy challenge for us all to stretch upward and outward to the full measure of our capabilities. Why not do all that we can, every moment that we can, the best that we can, for as long as we can?

Our ultimate life objective should be to create as much as our talent and ability and desire will permit. To settle for doing less than we could do is to fail in this worthiest of undertakings.

Results are the best measurement of human progress. Not conversation. Not explanation. Not justification. Results! And if our results are less than our potential suggests that they should be, then we must strive to become more today than we were the day before. The greatest rewards are always reserved for those who bring great value to themselves and the world around them as a result of who and what they have become.

by Jim Rohn

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Everyone wants to be physically healthy. You want to be mentally healthy as well. The true measure of "mental fitness" is how optimistic you are about yourself and your life. In this newsletter, you learn how to control your thinking in very specific ways so that you feel terrific about yourself and your situation, no matter what happens.

Control Your Reactions and Responses
There are three basic differences in the reactions of optimists and pessimists. The first difference is that the optimist sees a setback as temporary, while the pessimist sees it as permanent. The optimist sees an unfortunate event, such as an order that falls through or a sales call that fails, as a temporary event, something that is limited in time and that has no real impact on the future. The pessimist, on the other hand, sees negative events as permanent, as part of life and destiny

Isolate the Incident
The second difference between the optimist and the pessimist is that the optimist sees difficulties as specific, while the pessimist sees them as pervasive. This means that when things go wrong for the optimist, he looks at the event as an isolated incident largely disconnected from other things that are going on in his life.

Positive Focus will create the life that you want to live!
Negative people are like human black holes. They drain your energy. They keep you from reaching your goals. They stop your life!

By: Brian Tracy

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People with high self-esteem...

• Usually see other people in a better light
• Expect other people to like and accept them
• Perform better in high pressure situations, and do better work when the standards are high
• Feel confident and secure enough to shrug off negative comments from others

people with low self-esteem...

• Frequently dislike others
• Expect that other people will dislike and reject them
• Have trouble performing under pressure, and find it hard to work in demanding environments
• Are more vulnerable to negative comments and reactions from others

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A wise person knows the truth and puts it into practice every day! Imagine a jar full of marbles. Every time you make a good decision, it is like adding a marble to the jar. The more good decisions you make, the "wiser" you become. Each wrong or foolish decision is like taking a marble out.

Every choice is important, including the friends you make, the books you read, the programs you watch, and how you spend your free time. Apply good character to every decision!

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1. Accept the fact that not everyone will like you. You can be the nicest, most engaging, funniest, attractive person in the world. But not everyone is going to be yourfan. As unbelievable as that seems - it's a fact. Get used to it. With billions of people on this planet it's a statistical certainty that at some point in your life you're going to meet someone that just doesn't like you. 99.9% of the time, this happens not because of something you said or did. It's just...a clash of personalities; chemical reaction. Or they don't like your look. Nothing personal.

2. Concentrate on attracting kind, caring and supportive people into your life. Positive, encouraging people build your self esteem. They help you feel good about yourself. They're happy when you succeed, and help you when you're down. Before you know it, you'll find it a lot easier to express your own need sand desires-because you'll be met with support, not negativity

3. Stop trying to seek approval. This is a behaviour that's rooted in us from when we're kids. We want to please mommy, daddy, teachers. But people who become permanent approval-seekers do it at the expense of their own innate feelings and desires. Remember, you have more important things to do than worry about what people think of you. When you stop seeking approval from others and start expressing the real "you," people will begin to see you as confident and self-assured. Someone they'll want to be around.

4. Don't take yourself too seriously! Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and you cry alone. When you have a sense of humour and see the fun in life rather than dark clouds, you become like a magnet - attracting people who actually want to meet and get to know you.

5. Blaze your own path in life. Studies show that people who suffer from anxiety are often "followers." Go with the flow...it's easier this way...can't we all get along...But when you replace fear and insecurity with composure and confidence, you'll be able to tell the difference between people who can be trusted and those who can't. And learn a lot about other people - just by watching and listening.

Don't you think you deserve to get what you want out of life? Follow your dreams and passions-despite what others think?
- by Mike Brescia

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Almost everyday I received and inspiring articles and other inspiration which I subscribe and I love reading them. As much as I'm inspired by this article I hope you will be inspired too.

"Creative," "flexible," "imaginative" - these three words are almost interchangeable. If you are creative, you can think of alternative ways to work around problems, ways that align with your own skills and reflect your values. If you are flexible, you are able and willing to change and modify plans; you adjust to new circumstances and needs. If you are imaginative, you envision what is not and what can be - you see in your mind what you haven't yet seen in the material world.

All three words refer to your willingness to experiment with new approaches and fresh solutions. When you have these qualities, you will bend and not break when challenges arise.

When a great wind blows, that which is rigid will snap and break. That which is flexible will bend. When the wind dies down and calm returns, the flexible will rise again.

We see almost limitless creativity in inventors. We have all read or heard the stories of people like the Wright brothers, Eli Whitney, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford. These people triumphed by using imagination and flexibility. They experimented with new materials and techniques that often seemed unrealistic or preposterous at the time. For years, they suffered failure after failure, but they never felt regret. Each time they simply abandoned what did not work, revised their theories, and continued to look for what would work. They were flexible and humble enough to learn from other people's ideas and experiments and to adapt them to their own projects.

Choose to be unstoppable! by Cynthia Kersey, best-selling author and renowned speaker

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This blog of mine been abandoned for so long. I will start to give a life to this blog from today onwards. I have picked a new template design and created my own header. So here I come blog..

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