F.O.C.U.S

From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling stalker, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life... You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead... Take control and choose to focus what is important in you life... Those who cannot love fully often become destroyers of life...

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... To test your limits... To break through barriers... And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom

In short, when you make a world tolerable to yourself... You make a world tolerable for others...

Make a wish

Make a wish and place it in your heart... Anything you want, everything you want... Do you have it? Good... Now believe it can come true... You never know where the next miracle is gonna come from, the next smile, the next wish come true... But if you believe that it's right around the corner, and you open your heart and mind to the possibility of it, to the certainty of it... You just might get the thing you're wishing for... The world is full of magic... You just have to believe in it... So make your wish... Do you have it? Good... Now believe in it... With all your heart...

Be the Person You Are

Forget for a minute what the real world looks like, forget what you know, sometimes you need to believe in what isn't exactly there... A daydream of better nights... A storybook fantasy where life is ordered and consistent and tales get awfully exciting before they wrap up nicely for all involved... Who are we to enforce reality? After all, you never know when the good angel of fortune might bring a page from your book to life and throw a kind of miracle your way...

The relationship between time and you is always one of master and slave... List making - it is your anchor, your harbor in the storm of life... Start each morning with your wish for the day, and then move right on in into your daily goal list... Remember to keep them in behavioral terms and be specific... Why? Because a specific list is a happy list... And don't forget it's chaos out there... We conquer that by taking control, setting priorities... Life cannot be based on whim... Those who fail to control whim are destined to be controlled by it...


Remember the story on Hansel and Gretel? And Hansel said to Gretel: Let us drop these bread crumbs so that together we can find our way home because losing our way would be the most cruel of things... And once you lose yourself, you have two choices... Find the person you used to be or lose that person completely... Because sometimes you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be... The person you wanted to be... The person you are...

Life is hard at the moment...

There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroads... Afraid... Confused... Without a roadmap... The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days... Of course, when faced with the unknown, most of us prefer to turn around and go back... But once in a while people push on to something better... Something found just beyond the pain of going it alone... And just beyond the bravery and courage it takes to let someone in... Or to give someone a second chance... Something beyond the quiet persistence of a dream... Because it's only when you're tested, that you truly discover who you are... And it's only when you're tested, that you discover who you can be... The person you want to be does exist... Somewhere on the other side of hard work and faith and belief ... and beyond the heartache and fear of what lies ahead...

Just because the road ahead is long, is no reason to slow down... Just because there is much work to be done, is no reason to get discouraged... It is a reason to get started, to grow, to find new ways, to reach within yourself and discover strength, commitment, determination, discipline... The road ahead is long, and difficult, and filled with opportunity at every turn... Start what needs starting... Finish what needs finishing... Get on the road... Stay on the road... Get on with the work... Right now you're at the beginning of the journey... What a great place to be! Just imagine all the things you'll learn, all the people you'll meet, all the experiences you'll have... Be thankful that the road is long and challenging, because that is where you'll find the best that life has to offer...

He who hesitates is lost... We can't pretend we haven't been told... We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day... Still, sometimes we have to see for ourselves... We have to make our own mistakes... We have to learn our own lessons... We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore, until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin meant... That knowing is better than wondering... That waking is better than sleeping... And that even the biggest failure, even the worst, most intractable mistake beats the hell out of never trying...

Nevertheless, you will look back on the times you laughed and you will cry, you look back on the times you cried, and you will laugh... You will always remember close friends, and you will always keep memories of them in your heart... Life is hard. it's tough, and it's unfair, but everyone gets over the hurt and the pain, eventually, and you always end up with a smile on your face, if you give it a chance...