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A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $100 bill. In the room of 200, he asked. “Who would like this $100 bill?”
Hands started going up. He said, “I am going to give this $100 to one of you – but first, let me do this.”
He proceeded to crumple the 100 dollar note up. He then asked. “Who still wants it?” Still the hands were up in the air.
“Well,” he replied, “what if I do this?” He dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe.
He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. “Now, who still wants it?” Still the hands went into the air.
“My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson.
No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $100.
Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way.
We feel as though we are worthless; but no matter what happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value.
Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to God and to those who love you.
The worth of our lives comes, not in what we do, what we have or who we know, but by…WHO WE ARE.
You are so special in all the world there is only one you — don’t ever forget it.
Confidence! Confident is how I strive to be and appear. Being mentally strong and positive is 90% of any task. So often I doubt my strengths, my power, my ability to do well. Fear of failure can get the best of me. Faith and trust remind me that success is all about embracing those challenges and going for it!
“I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost
300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game-winning
shot and I missed. I have failed over and over again in my life. And that’s
… precisely why I succeed”.
Michael Jordan, who led the Chicago Bulls to six NBA championship titles
A beautiful song, a handsome boy. Imagine. ”I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one”…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W86jlvrG54o
There are some phrases we all remember from our childhood. Who hasn’t been told to chew with your mouth closed? Put on a sweater, I am cold? You have to wait for a full hour after you eat before you go near that swimming pool, or you’ll cramp up and could drown? Okay, I am aging myself with that last one. The phrase I remember most fondly was from my Mom. For as long as I can recall, she told us all to walk with a purpose. That meant to stand up straight, stand up proud and to not, as she likes to say, slouch or “dilly dally”. It wasn’t a command to rush; it was more about honor and intent. I never asked her where the phrase came from. But last week I found out, thanks to my young niece who taught her fellow classmates to walk with a purpose when they walked to school together. Here is what my mom told me: Her cousin Barbara (Auntie Barbara to me) grew up in Alhambra, CA. She graduated from Alhambra High School in 1951. The P.E. Teacher at AHS was Mrs. Thornton. She believed in “stand up straight, head up and walk with a purpose”. My Aunt Barbara remembers her as a “blond bombshell”, very fun with a great attitude. She was sure she retired not long after my aunt graduated. My mom Isabel added, “walk proud” as meaning that “you are important, too”. A beautiful legacy and mantra passed on to future generations. Walk with a Purpose!
It’s the last weekend of summer and on Saturday I lead our weekly run at Quicksilver Almaden. The trail is hilly, challenging and breathtakingly beautiful. I may hate the first 10 minutes or so, but I am never sorry I went. My daughter Erin has a blog and she has inspired me to share the things in life that make me smile. I am not a great athlete, but a passionate one. My run was slow and easy and at the half way point (about 5 miles up) I took a stunning picture of the valley below. Low clouds, sun breaking through and I was grateful I was alive. I was also grateful the next 5 miles would be down hill!
A smaller, challenging Half and Full Marathon in beautiful Santa Barbara.
A fast, run half marathon through downtown San Jose that is part of the Rock n Roll Series.
