Train your mind.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live." --Mortimer Adler

Day #288 - Train your mind.

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Use times of great challenge for both challenge and motivation.

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"Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds.  The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm." --Charles Caleb Colton

Day #287 - Use times of great stress for both challenge and motivation.

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Look for satisfaction in the little things.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"Life is made up of small pleasures.  Happiness is made up of those tiny successes.  The big ones come too infrequently.  And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything." --Norman Lear

Day #286 - Look for satisfaction in the little things.

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Do something today that will bring a better tomorrow.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow." --Doug Firebaugh

"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow." --George S. Patton


Day #284 - Do something today that will bring a better tomorrow.

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Keep learning.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"I am learning all the time.  My tombstone will be my diploma." --Eartha Kitt

"It's a great pity that things weren't so arranged that an empty head, like an empty stomach, wouldn't let its owner rest until he put something in it." --Olin Miller


Day #283 - Keep learning.

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Don't take yourself too seriously.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." --Bill Watterson

Day #282 - Don't take yourself too seriously.

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Seize opportunities when they occur.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them." --Ann Landers

Day #281 - Seize opportunities when they occur.

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Put your dreams into action.

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"Begin today.  Quit putting off until tomorrow the dreams you have for today.  Stop thinking you have all kinds of time for hugging your grandchildren, using your best china, taking that long sought-after trip, making that expensive purchase, being nice to your neighbors, reconciling with your family members, or for anything else.  By beginning today, you put your dreams into action." --Richard L. Weaver II

Day #280 - Put your dreams into action.

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Have confidence in your ability.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it.  You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through." --Rosalyn Carter


Day #279 - Have confidence in your ability.

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How you get up determines how you go to bed.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." --George Lorimer

Day #278 - How you get up determines how you go to bed.

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Keep on trying.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"Courage doesn't always roar.  Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'" --Mary Anne Radmacher

Day #277 - Keep on trying.

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Hold your ideas with passion.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." --Carl W. Buechner

Day #276 - Hold your ideas with passion.

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Know what success is.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children, to earn the approbation of honest critics; to appreciate beauty; to give of one's self, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived --- that is to have succeeded." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Day #273 - Know what success is.

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Realize that life is difficult.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.  It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.  Once we truly know that life is difficult --- once we truly understand and accept it --- then life is no longer difficult.  Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters." --M.Scott Peck

Day #271 - Realize that life is difficult.

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Make a difference.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee." --Marian Wright Edelman

Day #270 - Make a difference.

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Keep reaching for the stars.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer.  Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." --Harriet Tubman

Day #269 - Keep reaching for the stars.

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Work hard.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it.  Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it.  If you do, you'll win --- if you don't you won't." --Bruce Jenner

Day #268 - Work hard.

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Overcome your biggest obstacle to forward progress---yourself.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"We must overcome the notion that we must be ordinary . . . it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre." --Uta Hagen

Day #267 - Overcome your biggest obstacle to forward progress --- yourself.

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Appreciate matters of the heart.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak; than a heart that cannot love." --Robert Tizon

Day #266 - Appreciate matters of the heart.

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Use all your resources.

SMOERs: Words of Wisdom

"Ability is what you're capable of doing.  Motivation determines what you do.  Attitude determines how well you do it." --Lou Holtz

Day #265 - Use all your resources.

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