8 Powerful Quotes on Taking Charge of Your Happiness, Right Here, Right Now!

Stop waiting to be happy! Get off the road to happiness! You can be happy now!

Being happy is about being grateful and be thankful day by day, moment by moment for what is right here, right now.  Don't eat for a couple days and see just how much happiness can be had from a slice of bread!

Here are 8 powerful quotes to inspire you, to take charge of your happiness, so you can be happy NOW:

1. “People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ― Abraham Lincoln



2. “Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” ― Lao Tzu



3. “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough”― Oprah Winfrey



4. “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” ― Socrates



5. “Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”― Pearl S. Buck 



6. “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People



7. “Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
   ― Guillaume Apollinaire 



8. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”―Aristotle

5 years: It's your time. It's your life. What will you do with it? What could you do with it?

The Five Book by Dan Zadra

Where Will You be Five Years from Today?
The next five years can be the most exciting and satisfying years of your life—or just another five years.

Peak inside this book.

Graduating from college? Considering a new career? Inspiring your sales or service teams? Setting goals for retirement? Here’s your inspiration. The 5 book is your playbook for life. It features thought-provoking quotations and real-life examples to serve as both a spark and a road map for what’s exciting in your life.

Each year life offers itself to us an endless number of ways. Each moment comes to us with both hands filled with gifts, marvels, opportunities and adventures--but we seldom see or accept more than a tiny franction of the exciting possibilities around us.

The truth is, most of us are so busy doing what we think we have to do the we never get around to doing what we really want to do.

This book celebrate the "want to's," the "choose to's" and the "I can't wait to's" in your life.  Whether you're just finishing school, starting a new venture, celebrating a milestone or envisioning your retirement, you are the hero of this story.

 This is your life, your one-and-only life.  You determine what's possible.  Make choices, ask questions, take steps--today is the day.

The next five years can be the most exciting and satisfying years of your life—or just another five years.


Let the 5 book be your guide.  There are no rules here.  This is not a work book, it's a play book.  This is not a "here's how" book, it's a "why not?" book.  So be daring, be bold and be true to yourself.  Over the next five years, what do you really want to be?  Really want to do?  Really want to have?  Where do you really want to go?

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own.  No apologies or excuses.  No one to lean on, rely on or blame.  The gift of life is yours--it is an amazing journey--and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.

Your journey is determined by the choices you make.  Your answers are determined by the questions you ask.  Your destination is determined by the steps you take.  Your future is determined by what you do today.

Where will you be five years from today?

11 Inspiring Quotes on Courage

1. “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.”― Mary Anne Radmacher


2. “It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.”―J.R.R. Tolkien


3. “Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it....”― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule 


4. “Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.”― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule


5. “The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.”― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times


6. “Courage is knowing what not to fear.”― Plato


7. “Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires....courage.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson 


8. “Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enemy. If your enemy is within you, understand what it is and why you are afraid. Put a face on your fear. When you understand it, and it is no longer vague and shapeless, you will find that your fear is no longer so formidable.”― Mercedes Lackey, Brightly Burning 


9. “To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”― Criss Jami


10. “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”― Joseph Chilton Pearce


11. “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”― August Wilson

Get MORE Sales in 30 Minutes a Day!

By Chief Dodo

A must read article from Marketing DoDo!

Haven’t got the time to get your marketing done? Rather spend your time doing something else? Did you know that spending just 30 minutes a day can super charge your online business…

Find out how now!...read on

5 ways you may be sabotaging yourself

Make sure you reach the goals you set by avoiding these self-sabotage traps.
by Victoria Joanna Bailey

Self-sabotage is something we often hear when it comes to personal improvement and wellness. The concept of sabotage is essentially the act of hindering our own progress. To put it simply, sabotage often creates the very situations we are trying to avoid. We start off with the best of intentions, yet subtly and often for reasons we don’t fully understand, we make choices and take actions that undermine our efforts.

The good news is that self-sabotage stops working the moment you become aware of what you’re doing. You don’t have to stay stuck and repeat the same patterns. Most of us are familiar with procrastination, the most common form of self-sabotage. The following are some less obvious ways in which we can undermine our efforts and therefore sabotage ourselves. If you recognize that you are doing these things, you can prepare and plan accordingly and avoid the potential to sabotage yourself in the future.

So what are some ways you may be sabotaging yourself?...read on

How To Blog Your Way To Success In 4 Simple Steps!

By Chief Dodo

A must read article from Marketing DoDo!

You’ve heard about the mysterious powers of a blog but have never experienced it’s effects! Everyone has told you that you need one, yet it sounds like a daunting and challenging part of your marketing which you would rather do without.

Let me show you how you can blog your way to success in 4 simple steps!...read on

Breath is Life: 23 Benefits of Breathing Right!

How we breathe, day-to-day, moment-to-moment, affects every system of our bodies.

Oxygen is more important to us than either food or water. We can live without food for weeks, even months and without water for days, but without oxygen, we will die within a matter of minutes.

It only stands to reason that good breathing is not just important for athletes or opera singers but essential for all of us.

In fact, both ancient teachings and modern research correlate good breathing skills with wellness, and poor breathing skills with a strong propensity towards illness. However, poor breathing habits often go unnoticed.

Because breathing occurs naturally without thinking about it, we don't generally think of breathing as something we need to learn to do correctly or even better. Yet, when we take into consideration the great number of things affecting the length, depth, volume, balance, rate, ease, and flow of our breathing such as posture, stress and pollution to name a few, we can begin to understand how the quality of our breathing can diminish over time.

Breath is life.  And so, we must ensure that we are breathing properly and aspire toward optimum breathing.

RESOURCES:

HolisticOnline.com: The Importance of Breathing An in depth look at correct breathing.

HolisticOnline.com: Learning to Breathe Correctly - Explains how to learn to Breathe Correctly.

Below is an introduction to Pranayama Breathing.


Benefits of increased oxygen

• Increases energy levels
• Increases stamina and endurance
• Enhances the absorption of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, proteins and other important nutrients
• Rapid fatigue recovery
• Lowers resting heart rate
• Kills infectious bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites, but does not harm the "Good" microorganisms the body needs.
• Relieves pain
• Improves circulation
• Sleep better
• Strengthens the immune system
• Heightens concentration and alertness
• Increases fat metabolism resulting in loss of body fat
• Calms the nervous system
• Improves memory
• Improves chemical imbalances in the body.
• Relieves headache
• Accelerates healing time for injuries
• Lowers blood pressure
• Relieves stress and anxiety
• Helps reverse premature aging
• Relieves symptoms of PMS in women
• Helps displace damaging free radicals
• Helps neutralize harmful toxins in cells, tissues and bloodstream