Inspiration 365 Days!

Give thanks. Volunteer at a soup kitchen. Invite someone for dinner who would otherwise be spending the holiday alone. For each family member, press a dried leaf and write a word of thanks with a permanent marker. Donate your extra groceries to a food bank that serves needy families. Interview your neighbhors about what they’re thankful for, create a scroll from their responses and hand out a copy to everyone. Dedicate the day to truly give thanks and embrace each encounter as an opportunity to express kindness.

— Random Kindness Idea

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• Donate your professional clothes to an organization that helps people get back into the workforce.
• Give gently worn home furnishings or household appliances to a person or family who might need them or donate them to an organization.
• Take warm clothes, blankets or food to a homeless person that you often cross paths with.
• Donate toys and books to a homeless organization. Toys and books are just as important to kids as food and shelter.
• When shopping, buy a couple extra non-perishable food items and take them to a food drive or pantry.

Recognize that it is natural and normal to fear rejection. The only thing wrong with it is if you allow the fear to dominate you so that it holds you back from fulfilling your potential in your business.

— Brian Tracy

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The power of thought is the only thing over which you have complete, unchallenged, and unchallengeable control.

— Napoleon Hill

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A son and his father were walking on the mountains.

Suddenly, the son fell, hurt himself and screamed, “AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!” To his surprise, he heard a voice repeating somewhere in the mountain: “AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”

Curious, he yelled, “Who are you?” He received the answer, “Who are you?”

And then he screamed to the mountain, “I admire you!” The voice answered, “I admire you!”

Angered at the voice kept on repeating what he said, the son screamed, “Coward!” He received the answer, “Coward!”

He looked to his father and asked, “What’s going on?”

This is the gratitude dance. Be grateful and have some fun.

Every morning when you wake up, follow this three step process:

#1. Write down what you’re grateful for at that moment.
#2. Watch the Video
#3. DO THE DANCE!

Spread the dance to everyone you know and care about.

I’m so happy and grateful for…

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It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

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It’s better to be idiot than to pretend wise.

— Unknown