A person is what he or she thinks about all day long. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

You want to become aware of your thoughts, you want to choose your thoughts carefully and you want to have fun with this, because you are the masterpiece of your own life. – Joe Vitale

Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts. – Benjamin Disraeli

What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts. – Brian Tracy

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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright

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You have to ask yourself – how badly do I want success?

Would I be prepared to climb that high? What If you’re

scared of heights like me? I’ll just have to find another way!

But I want it bad so I’ll get up there!

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With the holiday season coming up, this week we’re looking at

‘keeping fit’ and toning ones body and mind…

"To feel ‘fit as a fiddle’, you must tone down your middle."
Author Unknown

"A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -
pills or stairs." Joan Welsh

"Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits.
However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while

you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits

fairly quickly." James Rippe, M.D.

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being,

while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and

preserve it. – Plato

To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training,

diet and mental approach. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more
efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your
talent to produce outstanding results. – Anthony Robbins

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five
miles a day when she was 60. She’s 97 today and we don’t know where
the hell she is. – Ellen Degeneres

I’m off to the gym. (Walking down there!)

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Here’s the top ten quotes of ‘The Greatest’ :
10. Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you

think you are.

9. At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to

know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.

8. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will

accomplish nothing in life.
7. I never thought of losing, but now that it’ s happened,

the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to

all the people who believe in me. We all have to take

defeats in life.
6. I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch

in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

5. What keeps me going is goals.
4. It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief.

And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things

begin to happen.

3. I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
2. I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don’t quit.

Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

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Today I’m looking at ‘goal setting’…

"A goal properly set is halfway reached." – Abraham Lincoln

"The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the

more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious,

will direct us along the path to its fulfillment." – Earl

Nightingale"

You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you

set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought,

you are stuck with something below your true talent and

potential." – Steve Garvey

"Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the

morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day.

Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best

out of life." – Harvey Mackay

I’m just off to reset mine so I can go and fill up my mega

thirsty 4 x 4!

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Today we’ll have a look at ‘criticism’ – I always try to

refrain from being critical when my wife is doing something

I don’t want to do! Here’s a cartoon that was born out of a

recent decorating project – along with a few of my favourite

quotes…

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of

praise. ~ Mary Kay Ash

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain.. and most fools

do.~ Dale Carnegie

Don’t let anyone say you can’t do it. ~ John Ilhan

And my favourite…Never criticize your spouse’s faults; if it

weren’t for them, your mate might have found someone better

than you! ~ Jay Trachman

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If you’re going to make the incredible effort to be born, then why not live your life to the MAX. It makes sense, doesn’t it? Why do it half shod? Why only let the throttle out half way? Put your foot flat to the floor, spin the wheels, burn some rubber and let loose with a ‘Yahoo’ as you tear up the road in your supercharged hot rod of a life that is yours to live. Too many of us try to play it safe and at the end of the road we find ourselves trapped in self-imposed security. But you know and I know that there’s only one life to live, so let’s LIVE it.

Words © Peter Sinclair 2003

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