There is only one way to avoid criticism: be nothing.

There is only one way

 to avoid criticism:

 do nothing,

 say nothing,

 and be nothing. 

–Aristotle

from Forbes Top 100 Inspirational Sayings

SaraHHouse365 | Human Faults are like Garden Weeds

SaraHHouse365 | Will you have said more than you've done?

Motivation doesn't last, neither does bathing.

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. 

Well, neither does bathing.

 That’s why we recommend it daily. 

            –Zig Ziglar

SaraHHouse365 | Be thankful and stop complaining.
SaraHHouse365 | I've Never Regretted the Nice Things...
SaraHHouse365 | 12 Things Successful People Do Differently: #10

Life is like a book

Book: How To Say No Without Feeling Guilty

SaraHHouse365 | RIP Zig Ziglar

SaraHHouse365 | People Change and forget to tell each other

Why HMP are draining...

And this is why HMP are draining...

SaraHHouse365 |Saying No to High Maintenance People

SaraHHouse365 | A Spirit of Power, Love & Self Discipline

SaraHHouse365 | Today I have the Power

I've never regretted the nice things I've said about people.

"I've learned that I've never regretted the nice things I've said about people."  - Age 38

Page 73, The Complete LIVE and LEARN and Pass It On.

Book: The Complete Live and Learn and Pass it On

SaraHHouse365 | SJ's Book Recommendations - Feb 2013

SaraHHouse365 | 30 Challenges, Day 7

Saying No to High Maintenance People

Oooh definitely love this!

 How To Say No Without Feeling Guilty

SaraHHouse365 | The Paradox of Our Time in History
SaraHHouse365 | 30 Challenges - Day 4
SaraHHouse365 | The Beauty of Discipline

Giving Thanks When I Don't Feel Like It.

MY VIEW: TIME MAGAZINE asked me today to write a piece on Thanksgiving. This is what I sent them.

GIVING THANKS WHEN I DON’T FEEL LIKE IT

Rick Warren

Thanksgiving is a difficult holiday for many.

How can you be thankful when your doctor says it’s cancer? How can you feel grateful when the one you love just walked out of your life? Or when you’ve been fired . . . or your dream has collapsed . . . or an economic tsunami has wiped out all you’ve worked for?

This year became the worst year of my life when my youngest son, who’d struggled since childhood with mental illness, took his own life. How am I supposed be thankful this Thanksgiving? When your heart’s been ripped apart, you feel numb, not grateful.

And yet the Bible tells us “Give thanks IN ALL circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.” The key is the word “in.” God doesn’t expect me to be thankful FOR all circumstances, but IN all circumstances. There’s a huge difference. The first attitude is masochism. The second shows maturity. We’re not supposed to be thankful for evil or sin, or the innocent suffering caused by these things. But even in heartache and grief and disappointment, there are still good things that I can be thankful for.

I used to think that life was a series of mountain highs and valley lows, but actually we get both at the same time. In our world broken by sin, the good and the bad come together. On the cover of my wife’s book, Choose Joy, is a photo of a railroad track heading into the horizon. Like that photo, our lives are always running on two parallel rails simultaneously. No matter how good things are in my life, there are always problems I must deal with, and no matter how bad things are in my life, there are always blessings I can be grateful for.

So what am I thankful for this Thanksgiving?

Role Playing: The Many Faces of the Ego

Note to self when I come across somebody with an ego;  rather than get frustrated, go back and dive into this section.

SaraHHouse365 | It's Never Too Late...to push your boundaries!

SaraHHouse365 | Today I have the Power

Be thankful and stop complaining.

SaraHHouse365 | This Girl

SaraHHouse365 | And the ones who deserve to die...

Foundation for all abundance

Acknowledging the good that is already in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

Jimmy John's

Recently I was in Jimmy Johns and this sign caught my attention. My favorite part is about giving up your seat to the elderly, pregnant women and people with firearms. Yes!! People with Firearms!

SaraHHouse365 | Staying Passionate About Life!

SaraHHouse365 | Let's Quit Blaming the Guns

This Girl...

I just love this!

SaraHHouse365 | Recognizing and Appreciating what we do have!

SaraHHouse365 | A Spirit of Love, Power & Self Control

SaraHHouse365 | We Give because we're Thankful

Have you prayed about it as much as you've talked about it?

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Do you celebrate the things you have?

SaraHHouse365 | Feed the Right Wolf
SaraHHouse365 | One Thousand Gifts, Intro
SaraHHouse365 | We Give because we're Thankful

Credits: Mark & Angel's 25 Beautifully Illustrated Thought-Provoking Questions Article

The Fruit of the Spirit is....

Galatians 5:22

Credits A Great Impression

We've become strangers to nature.

Saw this on my cousin Peter's FB wall 4/7/13




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SaraHHouse365 | I go to nature...
SaraHHouse365 | A Successful 2012 Wood Season!

Caribou Coffee: What If | Why Not?

Had this on my coffee in April 2013. I liked this phrase. Made me stop and think. - SH

10 Success Principles We Often Forget

You've seen me repost some articles from this website I stumbled upon a couple months ago; Mark & Angel Hack Life: Steps for Productive Living (markandangel.com). They have some of my favorite articles including many that include asking yourself questions, analyzing your own life. Here's an article I thought contained some good principles. - SH

10 Success Principles We Often Forget

Identify your problems but give your
power and energy to solutions.
-Tony Robbins

Sometimes we find ourselves running in place, struggling to get ahead simply because we forget to address some of the basic success principles that govern our potential to make progress. So here’s a quick reminder:

1. You are the only person responsible for your success. The best part of your life will start on the day you decide your life is your own – no one to lean on, rely on, or blame. You are in full control of your future. Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do. It may be tough at times, but refuse to follow some preordained path. Make your own rules and have your own game plan. There is no happiness and success to be found by playing it safe and settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. Read The 4-Hour Workweek.
2. You don’t have to invent the wheel. Actually, to be successful you don’t have to invent anything at all. Coming up with a new invention or idea is one way to achieve massive success, but it isn’t necessary. And it can be the most challenging roads to success there is. You see many people have found lots of success just by taking something that already existed and simply putting their own twist on it (their unique selling proposition). Think about Apple for instance. As Steve Jobs once said, “Good artists copy, great artist steal. Creativity is connecting things.” Connecting things means seeking inspiration from great ideas that already exist and adding your own useful twist. Read The Millionaire Messenger.
3. There is no progress without action. What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. Some of the greatest ideas never made it. Why? Because the genius behind the idea failed to take action. Just remember, no action always results in a 100% failure rate. So get into action now, and begin to move in the right direction. Once you get started every step afterwards gets easier and easier. Until eventually, what had once been invisible, starts to become visible, and what once felt unattainable, starts to become a reality.
4. Persistence always wins. As Winston Churchill once said, “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” It may take more than one swing to compose an efficient hit, so make sure not to give up on strike #1. And remember, a river cuts through rocks not because of its power at a given moment, but because of its persistence over time.
5. Focus is everything. When you are too busy looking behind and around you, people are passing you. If you never focus clearly on something, you will never be 100% efficient at anything. Multi-tasking might seem to make you efficient at getting multiple tasks done at once, but it usually reduces your efficiency in dealing with each individual task.
6. Failure is necessary. Don’t wake up at seventy-five years of age sighing over what you should have tried, but didn’t because you were afraid to fail. Just do it, and be willing to fail and learn along the way. Very few people get it right the first time. In fact, most people fail to get it right the first 5 times. If what you did today didn’t turn out as you hoped, tomorrow is a new opportunity to do it differently. Interpret each failure as a lesson on the road to success.
7. Positivity fuels productivity. Thoughts are like the steering wheel that moves our life in the right direction. Success comes from positive energy. You can choose to get caught up in the negativity surrounding you, or you can decide to do something positive about your situation. You always have a choice. Remember, happiness is an element of success, and the happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything, they use positive energy to make the best of what they have.
8. You must believe you can. You must find the place inside yourself where anything is possible. It starts with a dream. Add confidence, and it becomes a belief. Add commitment, and it becomes a goal in sight. Add action, and it becomes a part of your life. Add determination and time, and your dream becomes a reality.
9. Helping others is a big part of being successful. Successful people constantly come up with new ideas, new projects, and new and innovative ways of helping others. This means that your aims and objectives just benefit you, but also help benefit others as well. Bottom line: Your long-term success is directly tied to how well you serve your community. Read Maximum Achievement.
10. Success is a journey of countless baby steps. It’s a constant process of growth. If you want to be successful, you must continue to hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else, and strive to improve. Oftentimes a person or organization will be successful, but then drop off. A person may become lazy, and an organization may succumb to weaknesses or competition. Sustained success means continually improving even if others may not see a need for it. Remember, the great thing in the world is not so much where we stand at any given time, as in what direction we are moving.

 

Credits: Mark & Angel's 10 Success Principles We Often Forget article

Love the Lord and serve him enthusiastically.

Human faults are like garden weeds.

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Human faults are like garden weeds. They grow without cultivation and soon take over the place if they aren’t thinned out. Habits are formed so slowly that most of us don’t realize what is happening until the habits are too strongly entrenched to be broken. Seldom can one pattern of behavior be eliminated without replacing it with another. It has been said that nature abhors a vacuum and will always find something to fill a void. The best way to thin out the “weeds,” or faults in your character, is to identify those traits with which you are dissatisfied and replace them with their positive counterparts. If you have a tendency to lose your temper, for example, find a replacement for your anger. Neutralize it with a positive expression or affirmation, such as, “No one can make me angry unless I let them. I will not let anyone else control my emotions.”  SaraHHouse365 | If you don't know what you want from life... SaraHHouse365 | Offer results, not alibis. Permanent link to this post: Human faults are like garden weeds. They grow without cultivation and soon take over the place if they aren’t thinned out.

pride vs. humility

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Homemaking

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Keep First Things First

Kiss the love of my life good morning!

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Will you have said more than you've done?

Credits: Mark & Angel's 25 Beautifully Illustrated Thought-Provoking Questions Article

Fasting & Prayer prepare and condition your spirit...

Holder of the Bow.

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Exchange for a day of your life.

SaraHHouse365: 30 Challenges | Day 16

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Successful vs. Unsuccessful People

The more you try to avoid suffering...

 

 

Where do you stand with somebody?

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Let your past make you better, not bitter.

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7 Critical Truths We Forget All Too Soon

7 Critical Truths We Forget All Too Soon


So much happens in our lives every day that we often forget what we have learned. In effect, the only thing faster than the speed of our thoughts is the speed of our forgetfulness.
Here are seven important reminders to jog your memory…

1. Attitude makes all the difference.

Two people can be affected by the same circumstance and respond in completely different ways; it just depends on their perspective. One might see themselves as a victim, while the other discovers and makes the most of an opportunity the circumstance provides.
When you expect life to be unkind, it will always live up to your expectations. On the other hand, when you consider yourself to be in a fortunate situation, you will find yourself in many more.
It’s important to remember that there is value in every situation and circumstance. Positive possibilities are generated by every possible turn of fate. No matter what happens or doesn’t happen, life is what you choose to make it. You just have to choose to make it great.

2. Some sadness is necessary.

You cannot completely shield yourself from sadness without also shielding yourself from happiness. Sadness is part of the journey. Life is a series of highs and lows – an adventure that requires you to take chances and actions that have the possibility of both success (happiness) and failure (sadness).
When you find your path, you must not be afraid to step forward. You need to have sufficient courage to take chances and fail sometimes. Disappointment and sadness are the tools life uses to show us the way.
In the end, we learn even more from our failures than we do from our successes. Every step is a step in the right direction. Read Learned Optimism.

3. You can’t fight fire with fire.

Don’t spew hostile words at those who spew them at you. Tone it down and replace the stink of confrontation with the fragrance of resolution. The louder the opposition wants to yell, the calmer and more confidently you need to speak. Keep your composure; don’t let them get to you.
Be an example of a pure existence having a pure understanding of reality. Communicate and express yourself from a place of peace, from a place of love, with the best intentions. Practice good judgment in what you say and how you say it, in the thoughts you carry, and in the emotions you reveal. And most of all, use your voice for good – to inspire, to encourage, to educate, to spread the notions of love and understanding.

4. Everyone struggles in some way.

When you deal with your own issues, use your head; when you help others deal with their issues, use your heart.
The questions you should be asking yourself: How much could I possibly know about the troubles in another’s heart? How much can I hope to understand this person who has suffered from a specific circumstance of pain or disappointment than I have known?
And even greater than your ability to inspire them with hope for a brighter future is your capacity to motivate them to directly confront the worst in themselves and deal with it upfront, so they can rediscover and reclaim the best in themselves over time. Read The 5 Love Languages.

5. Fear always exists.

Every new experience triggers a least some fear; and that’s okay. Fear can help you to assess risk and prepare for all kinds of important, challenging situations. But first you have to understand that the purpose of fear is not to stop you.
Fear helps you evaluate the path forward. Certainly it is important to pause and look carefully before you move into unknown territory. However, it is just as important that, after sufficient due diligence and preparation, you do indeed move forward.
Let the fear sharpen your awareness, and then let it inspire you to act. Your success cannot be built by seeking refuge in what is already familiar and comfortable. You must journey out into the unknown, prepared for the challenges and determined to do whatever is necessary. The way to get beyond your fear is to go through it. Do the thing you fear and the fear loses its control over you.

6. Small steps get you to big places.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing simply because you can only do a little. In fact, it is far more productive to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a giant leap only to stumble and fall and never get up again.
Bottom line: The path to every goal requires a hundred small steps – one after the other. Figure out where you want to go, take a step, and keep on stepping. Diligence and persistence will get you there. Read The Power of Habit.

7. You can only change yourself.

Don’t wait for someone who hurt you to make it up to you; this kind of thinking only keeps your old wounds from healing. Waiting for them to change is not the answer. You have no control over them, and they may never change.
Inner peace is found by changing your thinking, not the people who hurt you. And you change your thinking for yourself, for your joy, your peace of mind, your own understanding, and your bright future that has nothing to do with this person or what they did to you.
So forgive those who have hurt you in the past, and even more importantly, forgive yourself for allowing them to hurt you. Then smile like you’ve never cried, re-open your heart and mind like you’ve never been hurt, and live the rest of your life like you’re running out of time. Read 1,000 Little Things.

SaraHHouse365 | Surrender Day by Day

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Credits: Mark & Angel's 25 Beautifully Illustrated Thought-Provoking Questions Article

Train Yourself Not To Worry.

Learn how to pay compliments.

 

 

People waste time waiting for someone to take charge.

 

 

 

SaraHHouse365 | Me: Five Years from Now

When was the last time you tried something new?

 

Credits: Mark & Angel's 25 Beautifully Illustrated Thought-Provoking Questions Article