Dreams rarely come true for those without the courage to feel worthy of them.

Reaching Your Dream Takes Courage

Courage is admitting that you're afraid and facing that fear directly. It's being strong enough to ask for help and humble enough to accept it.

Courage is standing up for what you believe in without worrying about the opinions of others. It's following your own heart, living your own life, and settling for nothing less than the best for yourself.

Courage is daring to take a first step, a big leap, or a different path. It's attempting to do something that no one has done before and all others thought impossible.

Courage is keeping heart in the face of disappointment and looking at defeat not as an end but as a new beginning. It's believing that things will ultimately get better even as they get worse.

Courage is being responsible for your own actions and admitting your own mistakes without placing blame on others. It's relying not on others for your success, but on your own skills and efforts.
Courage is refusing to quit even when you're intimidated by impossibility. It's choosing a goal, sticking with it, and finding solutions to the problems.

Courage is thinking big, aiming high, and shooting far. It's taking a dream and doing anything, risking everything, and stopping at nothing to it make it a reality.

~ Caroline Kent ~

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

Impossible is Nothing...

"Impossible is nothing..." is a phrase uttered by a young Rwandan boy in a movie called "Africa United" which also starred my friend, Emmanuel Jal.  It is a line purportedly uttered by Mohammed Ali.  While "Nothing is Impossible" is ubiquitous in speach and thought, it has lost its power.  However, the term "Impossible can be I'm Possible, it is nothing!!

Summer's End...Life goes on...

As summer ends, I see the end of growth.  I feel a little depressed that I have not accomplished more, but I look forward to the rest. I remember that I should not dwell too much in the mistakes, faults and failures of the past.  I need to let go of shame and remorse and contempt for myself.  With God's help, I can develop a new self-respect.  If I don't respect myself, others will not either. I ran a race, I stumbled and fell, I have risen again and now I press on toward the goal of a better life.  I do not stay to examine the spot where I fell, only feel sorry for the delay, the shortsightedness that prevented me from seeing the real goal sooner.

Sober Life is an Adventure...

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. - James A. Michener.  I have made so many mistakes in my life.  Mostly I went to great lengths never to fail.  Today, I take my sober life like an adventure.  Today, I wourk to make amends, to clean house, to be of love and service, to trust God....To live the adventure!!

Lose To Win

Extra Weight - I want to loose 25 pounds!

If we make food choices from a place of love and awareness we will nurture ourselves with the foods our body really needs.  Our bodies are like living temples, and deserve all the love and care we can give them. Amazingly flexible and strong, they allow us to experience the world. If we notice that we are not feeling our best, that we have put on extra weight, or that our favorite clothes do nott fit, we can make the choice to be good to ourselves in a new way today.

There are times we become conscious of a deeper hunger that will not be satisfied physically. We can make a new, healthier choice for ourselves in any moment, regardless of the hour, day, week or month. And when we make the choice lovingly, we work from a creative place of improving our lives and nurturing the best within us, so there is no need to punish ourselves. From this place, we can be gently honest with ourselves about the reasons we want to eat certain foods. We can reach out to doctors to help us determine if our bodies are out of balance at a level that requires something other than basic nutrients. We can also reach out to our friends for support and to share the journey of health, which is just another part of our adventure on the physical plane.

When we treat ourselves and our bodies as we would a trusted and loyal companion, we keep our energy free from negative thoughts that would complicate our journey. Our bodies are not our enemies, and we are not fighting a battle. Instead, we are investing our love and attention into the care and support of a beautiful creation - ourselves.

We don't have to be the best; we just have to do our best

I run and I do many things poorly.  I have run over 50 races yet I am slow.  I practice law and I am not the best.  Today, I cannot practice law because of serious mistakes that I made when I was so sick with my alcoholism.  I was very ill and quite insane.  Today I am sober, my sanity has returned.  I am better than I have ever been in my life...still, I am not the best.  But today, I do my best. "Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it." - Cardinal Newman.