Day #230 - Make your circumstances.

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"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.  I don't believe in circumstances.  The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."  --George Bernard Shaw

Day #230 - Make your circumstances.

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Day #229 - Take advantage of your common sense.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."  --Harriet Beecher Stowe

Day #229 - Take advantage of your common sense.

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Day #228 - Keep yourself centered.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered."  --Wayne W. Dyer

Day #228 - Keep yourself centered.

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Say #226 - Maintain your enthusiasm.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

If you want to be happy,
          Begin where you are,
Don't wait for some rapture
          That's future and far.
Begin to be joyous, begin to be glad
          And soon you'll forget
That you ever were sad. 
                        --Anonymous

Day #226 - Maintain your enthusiasm.

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Day #225 - Make every moment of your life count.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment.  And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new.  Right now."  --Anonymous

Day #225 - Make every moment of your life count.

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Day #224 - Think before you speak.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts.  I wonder why we think faster than we speak.  Probably so we can think twice."  --Bill Watterson

Day #224 - Think before you speak.

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Day #223 - Live as an example to those around you.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."  --Mark Twain

Day #223 - Live as an example to those around you.

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Day #222 - Your secret to success is in your effort.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind."  --Anonymous

Day #222 - Your secret to success is in your effort.

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Day #221 - Listen well.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." --Robert McCloskey

Day #221 - Listen well.

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Day #219 - Always choose joy.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure."  ---Lawana Blackwell

Day #219 - Always choose joy.

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Day #218 - Change the way you treat those with whom you disagree.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secret of getting along---whether it be business, family relations, or life itself."  ---Bernard Meltzer

Day #218 - Change the way you treat those with whom you disagree.

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Day #217 - Start today to grow, develop, and change.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."  ---Oliver Wendell Holmes

Day #217 - Start today to grow, develop, and change.

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Day #215 - Be aware of your habits.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them.  And you don't have to keep them either.  They keep you."  ---Frank Crane


Day #215 - Be aware of your habits.

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Day #214 - Look how others treat strangers.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."  ---John Wesley

Day #214 - Look how others treat strangers.

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Day #213 - Enjoy the best years of your life.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"The moment you wake up is the instant you realize that the teacher is in you and that all your happiness, as well as all of your problems, are your own."  ---Richard L. Weaver II

Day #213 - Enjoy the best years of your life.

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Day #211 - Reserve your judgment.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils.  The thing to do is to supply light and not heat."  ---Woodrow Wilson

Day #211 - Reserve your judgment.

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Day #209 - Support your government, but remain skeptical.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades---that of government.  ---Socrates

Day #209 - Support your government, but remain skeptical..

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SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration." ---Thomas Alva Edison

Day #208 - Do not strive for genius.

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Day #205 - Control your desires.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"Our desires always increase with our possessions.  The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us."  ---Samuel Johnson

Day #205 - Control your desires.

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Day #204 - Avoid apathy.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all---the apathy of human beings."  ---Helen Keller

Day #204 - Avoid apathy.

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