PROMSIES TO MYSELF #39

PROMISES TO MYSELF • Promise #39 • ENTHUSIASTIC PERSEVERANCE • January 14, 2010 • I promise to work through the “Much” to get to the “Must.” • “Be specific and seize the zip and pizazzzz to finish your tasks.” • TODAY – Work off a detailed list; Create accountability for completing targeted processes; Use music and positive nutritional intake to boost your energy.

“Strong people have strong weaknesses.” Peter Drucker

“In the realm of idas, everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world, all rests on perseverance.” Goethe

Promises to Myself #34

PROMISES TO MYSELF • Promise #34 • CLARITY’S MAGIC • January 9, 2010 • I promise to allow lucidity to enliven the corners of my day. • “Clearness can transform all your choices.” • TODAY – Set aside the extraneous for the essential; Floow the path of the pertinent; Permit translucence to travel from within and without. Be transparent.

“Good prose is like a window pane.” George Orwell

“The universe if full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” Eden Phillpotts

Promises TO MYSELF #25

PROMISES TO MYSELF • Promise #25 • LET LOOSE • I promise to let go and soar. • “Transform. Create, cry or sing because the beauty compels you. Scream, shout or take action because hands still hurt children and people think dogs do not understand a cage. Live like there’s no tomorrow…” • TODAY – Reflect on the year. Be ordinary, be extraordinary and know there’s just a little difference. Do what you know and be willing to learn what you do not know.

“Eat the present moment and break the dish.” Egyptian Proverb

“I thought the drama was when the actors cried, but the drama is when the audience cries.” Frank Capra

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” Rabindranath Tagore

PROMISES TO MYSELF #24

PROMISES TO MYSELF • Promise #24 • ENCOURAGE MUSCLE • December 30, 2009 •

I promise to strengthen myself in every way. “mary anne, confirm your strength(s) in every opportunity.” • TODAY – Serve stamina in the physical and energetic realms; support your health in body and spirit in all your choices; practice wellness.

“The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement.” Sidney Madwed

“If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow – the genius in most everyone would blossom…” ibid

PROMISES TO MYSELF #21

PROMISES TO MYSELF • Promise #21 • GET MOVING! • December 27, 2009 • I promise to be purposely active today. • “mary anne, you’re better at being focused and still when your partner with playful movement.” • TODAY – crank the tunes and dance, bundle up and go for a walk, fidget, try two stairs at a time.

“The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy.” – Charles Dickens

“Walking is the best possible exercise.” - Thomas Jefferson -

PROMISES TO MYSELF #13

PROMISES TO MYSELF • Promise #13 • RECIPROCAL GRACES • December 19, 2009 • I promise to give and receive equally well. • “mary anne, accept with the same grace that you give.” • Looking into this day – hands open, facing upward, act readily on impulse to give, say thank you easily when gifted with anything, recognize gifts are often intangibles.

“There is no small kindness, every compassionate act makes large the world.” – mary anne radmacher

“We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.” – Seneca