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Game recognizes .....game or is it that Wisdom recognizes foolishness?

10/24/2011

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If game recognizes game then clearly I don't know the rules.
If game recognizes game, then I can't won't and don't know how to play with you.

I guess you can say I miss the days when men were gentlemen and women were
ladies.

My question is when did game even come on the scene?

When did communicating with the opposite become an art for suckas and softies?

When?

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The Best

10/23/2011

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That's it. Believe the best. Expect the best. Give the/your best. Do your best.

That's my  (brief) twenty-nine cents. Blessings.
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What are We entertaining and Why?

10/16/2011

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What are we entertaining and why?

As adults we should be beyond the stages of saying: I don't know or shrugging our shoulders when someone asks why we do something, especially if maybe we don't want to face up to what we are doing or accept responsibility for it.

I tell my students: Know the who, what, where, when, how, and why and stand by it. There's no time for wishy washiness. Gray area living is so completely unfulfilling. I think many of us resort to it because it's an indirect way of not accepting responsibility or being accountable.

It's a passive way of playing the victim and indirectly saying one doesn't have enough confidence in him/herself and direction in life to take a stand for what is or isn't being done.

As moral standards in our society decrease, too many of us resign our lives to the less than—less than in giving our best, less than in doing our best, less than in being our best, and less than in expecting the best. We're resigning our lives to a mediocrity that is killing our resilience.

The greater than is attainable but it does mean that we will have to curtail some bad habits like wasting time, not being focused, and making excuses.

Let's LIVE in the greater than!

That's my twenty-nine cents. Blessings.

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Loving and Living on Purpose

10/2/2011

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Hello, everyone! I hope each of you are well and gearing up for great weeks. I took a break last week, as I was celebrating at a wedding...Tonight's blog post is from three years ago...I hope that it connects with you all in a positive way...I've been marinating on a particular blog topic for a minute now...I'm hoping that it will be the next week's post....Take care!!
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I received this in an email today (04/28/08)and wanted to share my thoughts....
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Beautifully Stated

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn’t supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it’s harder every time. You’ll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You’ll fight with your best friend. You’ll blame a new love for things an old one did. You’ll cry because time is passing too fast, and you’ll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you’ve
never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you’ll never get back. 

Don’t be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin.
~anonymous~

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I think that sometimes we expect those we care about in our lives to be perfect. But as we grow, we realize that this will not be the case and understanding that is the beginning of being content with those we love and loving them unconditionally.

We are only human. This statement should not be an excuse, but a reminder that we are going to fall short. But as long as we have the desire and are willing, we can pick ourselves up and start anew. That is what is special about our free will. It is
amazing to think about the ’audacity of hope.’ In spite of, we can press forward in any situation because with perseverance and faith, we know that we will prevail.

Nothing can ever stay the same too long because anything that is stagnant dies.  A dear friend of mine has a quote that says:
’I am just like the PHOENIX, I continue to die and then I am reborn from  the ashes of my former self. I rise stronger, more powerful, and a significantly wiser human being than ever before. I shine even brighter. As I carry my light to the darkest sectors of our world.’
--Eric Michael Brown

With each new day we have an opportunity to be better, to grow wiser, to live passionately, to care and to love more deeply, and to live life like we mean it.

LIVE with pUrPoSe.
LIVE for pUrPoSe.
LIVE on pUrPoSe.

That's my twenty-nine cents. Blessings.
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