Opportunity > Danger >

"Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity;
 whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger.
 The two are inseparable. They go together."
~ Earl Nightingale
Focus on Tasks that give you much satisfaction
(since rewards are in-sync with your wants)!
Use Time wisely - identify unimportant activities and discard them.
Spend time on those that "pay-off"!


Perform To Your Full Potential - Choose Success over Failure.

Eliminate NEGATIVES ... focus on your POSITIVES.

Goals ...

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must
fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other
route to success. Stephen A. Brennan

The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies
in having no goals to reach. Benjamin Mays

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set
sail with no destination. Fitzhugh Dodson

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short
term failures. Charles C. Noble

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching
out and striving for his goals. Aristotle

You Will Never Grow Old ... While ...

I  would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful  life, my loving family for less grey hair or a flatter belly.  As  I've aged, I've become  kinder to myself, and less critical of myself. I've become my own  friend. I don't chide myself for eating that extra cookie, or for not  making my bed, or for buying that silly  cement gecko that I didn't need, but looks so avante garde on my  patio.  I am entitled to a treat, to be messy, to be extravagant. 

I  have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon;  before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging.


Whose  business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 AM and sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 60 &70's, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love  ..... I will.

I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body, and will dive into the waves  with  abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the jet set.  They, too, will get  old.
I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as well forgotten. And I eventually remember the important things.


Sure,  over the years my heart has been broken.  How can your heart not break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody's beloved pet gets hit by a car?  But broken hearts are what give us strength and understanding and compassion. A heart never broken is pristine and sterile and will never know the joy of being imperfect.


I  am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning grey, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. 
So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver.

As you get older, it is easier to be positive.  You care less about what other people think..  I don't question myself anymore.  I've even earned the right to be wrong.


So, to answer your question, I like being old.  It has set me free.   I  like the person I have become.  I am not going to live forever,  but while  I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what  could  have been,  or worrying about what will be.  And I shall  eat dessert every single day  (if I feel like it). 

MAY OUR FRIENDSHIP NEVER COME APART,
ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S  STRAIGHT  FROM THE  HEART!

Persist With Passion >>>

Need Results >>> Persist Until Results are Attained...
If You Don't Ask >>> You Don't Get! Take risks >>> without commitment and courage, not much is ACHIEVED!

Get out of your Comfort-Zone, and a whole NEW world is opened out for you!

Minimize Mistakes ...

"Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."~ John W. Gardner

Minimize Mistakes by Following Checklists...

 Write down each item that is a to-do item, no matter how small. Keep your lists in one easily found location i.e., one file or one book. Your lists are your map. Refer to them often to see where you've been, where you are and where you're going.