Why do we dream?

Don't let anyone steal your dreams. Dexter Yager is a former truck driver who built a multimillion Amway distribution network. Dexter Yager once said, "As you go toward your dream you will have problems and difficulties; but if the dream is big enough...the problems don't matter."

We dream it because we want to become it.

"The best way to build your future is to build yourself." ~Dexter Yager

Quote of the month: "Fear is an illusion; you think something is standing in your way but nothing is really there."

If you could only give your child 1 gift, What would it be?

Do your children get bored? How do you get your children to want the things that they already have? Well next time a child or anyone says that they are bored, they are saying that they are bored with everything they have. A child means that they are bored of everything that you have provided for them. It could be because they have too much. But too much of what. Do we shower our children with many gifts? Things that they may want at that time, but don't really need. So after awhile it just falls at the waist side and its only a matter of time before they started saying, "I'm bored", again. What does this teach children?

Do children actually get to learn how to deal with things that they cannot have? Do we give our children the gift of what they truly need?:

Enthusiasm- being excited for the life that you gave him/her
(like they were when they were at the age of 5)

Encouragement-going out of their way for someone else
(does your child always have to be the first one in line)

Handling Adversity- disagreeing appropriately, putting others feelings ahead of their own

Character is who you really are. Reputation is who people say you are.
Some say sports builds character. In reality,
Sports Reveals Character.
~John Wooden

Quote of the month: "A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." ~Bernard Meltzer

Just one more Step! Will make a difference

A farmer kept his new dog tied to a tree in the front yard. The dog would run after the children walking by and the leash would snap the dog back. Eventually the dog quit trying. After having the dog for 6 months, the owner felt bad and decided to let the dog go. So the owner loosened up his collar. That very same day a cat walked by. This cat would tease the dog everyday, as it stood in the spot where the leash wouldn't allow the dog to go. Sometimes as the cat would pass by, it would run by the dog. Once again the dog chased after the cat. But slowed down as it new, that the leash would eventually snap him back and stopped 1 step away from where the cat stopped running.

In life can you give 1% more each day. Can you just take that extra step in life. That's all. Just one more step. We get caught up in life that we stop right where we are. The dog was free and didn't know it. All he had to do was just take that extra step. Whether it's exercising for 5 more minutes. Reading that book for a few more minutes. Giving a compliment to someone, can make or break their day. Getting a small gift for someone, who has gone out of their way for you in the past. Just 1 more step. Just turn up your enthusiasm one more degree. Just one more step can make all the difference in the world.

Your presence should make a difference.

"Never try quitting and Never quit trying." ~Dolly Parton

Quote of the month: "A winner is dreamer who just won't quit."

Unrealized Potential

Promising, conceivable, possibility, ability, power, achiever: What is this describing? Your unrealized Potential. If I know one thing about you, it's that you have this great potential inside you. But what do we allow in to destroy everything we want to become?

Discouragement takes away everything you are. Discouragement is a smoke screen from the great person that you have become. Discouragement tries to kill your will to be successful.

The devil had decided to pack it up and go out of business. He planned to put all of his tools up for sale. His tools consisted of a malice, hate, envy, jealousy, greed, sensuality and deceit. Off to the side lay a harmless-looking wedge-shaped tool which had obviously been warned down.

A potential buyer asked, "What's that? It's priced so much higher than all of the other tools which aren't nearly as worn." The devil answered, "That's discouragement."

"But why is it priced so high?" the customer asked.

The devil replied, "Because that's the tool I used to pry open a person's consciousness when I couldn't get near them with any of the other tools. Once discouragement got me inside, I could let all the other tools do their work."

"If no one can discourage you, then no one can defeat you."

Quote of the month: "A winner is a dreamer who just won't quit."