Day #191 - Set high standards.

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"Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom.  If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness.  Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to."  ---Greg Anderson

Day #191 - Set high standards.

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Day #189 - Do it now.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Courage has genius, power, and magic in it;
Only engage, and then the mind grows heated.
Begin it, and the work will be completed."
                                                        ---Anonymous

Day #189 - Do it now.

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Day #188 - Never let floors become ceilings.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction." ---Charles Francis Adams

Day #188 - Never let floors become ceilings. 

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Day #187 - Resist the temptation of doing nothing

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"Life is inherently risky. there is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing." ---Denis Waitley

Day #187 - Resist the temptation of doing nothing. 

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Day #186 - Never forget those who helped you get where you are

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"Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it." ---Ralph Marston

Day #186 - Never forget those who helped you get where you are. 

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Day #185 - Engage in careful planning

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"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success." ---Alexander Graham Bell

Day #185 - Engage in careful planning. 

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Day #183 - Revere science and its contributions

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"Realize that how we understand the whole of human history, comprehend all that humans know of themselves, and discover new evidence and theories regarding the future of humans on this earth, is because of an understanding of and a belief in science and the process of scientific investigation." ---Richard L. Weaver II


Day #183 - Revere science and its contributions. 

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Day #180 - Be careful of any advice you give

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples." ---La Rochefoucauld


Day #180 - Be careful of any advice you give. 

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Day #179 - Tolerate ignorance

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." ---Galileo Galilei

Day #179 - Tolerate ignorance. 

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Day #177 - Cultivate courage.

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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." ---Eleanor Roosevelt

Day #177 - Cultivate courage. 

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"If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be." ---John Heywood

Day #176 - Make something of everything that happens to you. 

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SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another." ---Ernest Hemingway

Day #175 - Success in in the details. 

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SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"Knowledge can be memorized. Wisdom must think things through. Wisdom is the something that enables us to use knowledge rightly. Wisdom does not climb on the bandwagon. It does not follow the crowd. Wisdom gives generously but it does not let money be taken away. Wisdom may buy but it does not let itself be 'sold.' Wisdom resists group pressures, thinks for itself, and is reconciled to the use of its own judgment." ---Anonymous

Day #174 - Seek wisdom, and if not a seeker, appreciate wisdom in others. 

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SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"Prepare yourself now in every way that you can, as often as you can, and as much as you can. In that way, you will have no excuse for missing an opportunity." ---Richard L. Weaver II

Day #173 - Prepare yourself in all ways. 

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SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening. ---Daisaku Ikeda

Day #171 - Push yourself.

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SMOERs: Words of Wisdom Wednesdays

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well." ---Josh Billings

Day #170 - Make certain you live well.

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SMOERs: Words of Wisdom Wednesdays

"Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending." ---Virgina Satir

Day #168 - Take notice of even your smallest gestures.

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SMOERs: Words of Wisdom Wednesdays

"In general those who nothing have to say
Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it." ---Lowell


Day #167 - Let thinking guide your talking.

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SMOERs: Words of Wisdom Wednesdays

"The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival...because when you are unhappy, you also throw unhappiness all around." ---Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Day #165 - Enjoy being festive.

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SMOERs: Words of Wisdom Wednesdays

"If we fill our hours with regrets over the failures of yesterday, and with worries over the problems of tomorrow, we have no today in which to be thankful." ---Apples of Gold

Day #123 - Be thankful every day.

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