Here’s a poem I found called “Staying Young“:

I’ve something to say to you older folks, and you young folks listen too,
For what I’m about to say, will some day apply to you.

I know that some of you older folks are happily retired,
And have no ties to bind you, and work is no longer required.

So you’re sitting around in idleness, each day becomes a bore,
You’re beginning to start thinking, there’s nothing worth living for.

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In case you didn’t see the email, I caved to peer pressure and started a SECOND *new* thought of the day email list, just like the old one.

By now you’ve noticed that THIS email (if you’re getting this via an RSS email) looks very different from my usual old “Aspire Higher Thought-of-the-Day” email.

Well, some people don’t like this format…or expressed that they had trouble signing up for it.  Well, just so you know, I HAVE actually closed the OLD email, along with the 35,000 subscribers that were on it.  Why did I close it?  It was getting too expensive….

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Here’s a few good quotes I’ve shared on FB in the last week:

• A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction. -Benjamin Spock

• Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. -Charles Caleb Colton

• If you can still read this, you still have a chance! -Ronny M. Cole

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Here’s a few of the quotes that’s I’ve shared in the last few days on FB and Twitter:

• There is clearly much left to be done, and whatever else we are going to do, we had better get on with it. -Rosalynn Carter

• If you’re in a good profession, it’s hard to get bored, because you’re never finished…there will always be work you haven’t done. -J Child

• The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren’t is the willingness to work very, very hard. -Helen Gurley Brown

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Here are some of the latest quotes I’ve shared this week on Facebook and Twitter:

• If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work. -Sir Isaac Newton

• Whoever looks for easy work goes to bed very tired. -Yiddish Proverb

• The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first. -Ginger Rogers

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If you catch yourself doing too much, these Focus Quotes might help to get you focussed like a laser again:

• No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. -Harry Emerson Fosdick

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We all need to grow and progress.  If we don’t, we’re simply not happy. We need to be striving for some great goal, which is why I decided to share these “Growth Quotes”.  Enjoy:

• Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown. -George Shinn

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