What are you doing?

This is quite a challenging picture. What is your reaction?

When we let freedom ring

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last."

-- Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream" speech, August 28, 1963

Some great rules!

Learning

Wow. I was blown away by this. Absolutely amazing. I blogged a few weeks ago about how enough s enough. Doing some reorienting, re focussing and rebuilding right now.  What does this teach you?

This one just blew me away. 

Let Go

Enough is enough on My Birthday

My last really happy birthday was six years ago before my separation and divorce. From 1982 until six years ago, life had simply got better and better (with moments). I felt very blessed.

For some others, like me, post divorce isn't easy. On top of that, both my parents had heart attacks, and my sister has been very ill. I sold my house, bought a new one and have tried to keep my business operating through some of the toughest economic conditions. I know compared to some in this world, all of this is nothing but for me, the stress o meter has run overtime.


I was struck by this one:
Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life. Billy Mills

So July 2, 2012: enough is enough. Life is going to start getting better again.

Thank you to all of my friends who have supported and loved me.

Pity Party

I loved this. So relevant to what I am doing right now.

My new Device..motivational!!

Thank you to Leunig for this.

A more hopeful world

Somewhere on this planet, someone has a solution to each of the world's problems.
It might be one of us.
With your help, we can build a more hopeful world.
Marianne Larne

Monday Motivation: Alter by Millimetre

"The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you can alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change the world."-James Baldwin

Monday Motivation: Make it Fantastic!

Monday Motivation: Lets Not Complicate

I was taken with this. I am not sure where it comes from.

Monday Motivation: Jumping In

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Robert Cushing

Monday Motivation:Nelson Mandela: Inaugural Address, May 10, 1994

Something to think about in 2012......Happy New Year to you and your family, colleagues and community.

Your Majesties, Your Highnesses, Distinguished Guests, Comrades and Friends:

Today, all of us do, by our presence here, and by our celebrations in other parts of our country and the world, confer glory and hope to newborn liberty.

Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

All this we owe both to ourselves and to the peoples of the world who are so well represented here today.

To my compatriots, I have no hesitation in saying that each one of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria and the mimosa trees of the bushveld.

Each time one of us touches the soil of this land, we feel a sense of personal renewal. The national mood changes as the seasons change.

We are moved by a sense of joy and exhilaration when the grass turns green and the flowers bloom.

That spiritual and physical oneness we all share with this common homeland explains the depth of the pain we all carried in our hearts as we saw our country tear itself apart in a terrible conflict, and as we saw it spurned, outlawed and isolated by the peoples of the world, precisely because it has become the universal base of the pernicious ideology and practice of racism and racial oppression.

We, the people of South Africa, feel fulfilled that humanity has taken us back into its bosom, that we, who were outlaws not so long ago, have today been given the rare privilege to be host to the nations of the world on our own soil.

We thank all our distinguished international guests for having come to take possession with the people of our country of what is, after all, a common victory for justice, for peace, for human dignity.

We trust that you will continue to stand by us as we tackle the challenges of building peace, prosperity, non-sexism, non-racialism and democracy.

We deeply appreciate the role that the masses of our people and their political mass democratic, religious, women, youth, business, traditional and other leaders have played to bring about this conclusion. Not least among them is my Second Deputy President, the Honorable F.W. de Klerk.

We would also like to pay tribute to our security forces, in all their ranks, for the distinguished role they have played in securing our first democratic elections and the transition to democracy, from blood-thirsty forces which still refuse to see the light.

The time for the healing of the wounds has come.

The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come.

The time to build is upon us.

We have, at last, achieved our political emancipation. We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

We succeeded to take our last steps to freedom in conditions of relative peace. We commit ourselves to the construction of a complete, just and lasting peace.

We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people. We enter into a covenant that we shall build the society in which all South Africans, both black and white, will be able to walk tall, without any fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity--a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.

As a token of its commitment to the renewal of our country, the new Interim Government of National Unity will, as a matter of urgency, address the issue of amnesty for various categories of our people who are currently serving terms of imprisonment.

We dedicate this day to all the heroes and heroines in this country and the rest of the world who sacrificed in many ways and surrendered their lives so that we could be free.

Their dreams have become reality. Freedom is their reward.

We are both humbled and elevated by the honor and privilege that you, the people of South Africa, have bestowed on us, as the first President of a united, democratic, non-racial and non-sexist South Africa, to lead our country out of the valley of darkness.

We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom.

We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success.

We must therefore act together as a united people, for national reconciliation, for nation building, for the birth of a new world.

Let there be justice for all.

Let there be peace for all.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world.

Let freedom reign.

The sun shall never set on so glorious a human achievement!

God bless Africa!

Thank you.

Monday Motivation: Energy

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, July 2003

Monday Motivation

“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”

Leo F. Buscaglia

Monday Motivation: Staying the Course

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.


Kathleen Norris

Getting Your Stuff done! Monday Motivation

Ever had one of those Monday Mornings? When is it procrastination and when is it getting lots of other things finished?
Take 1 minute 19 seconds to watch this video- see if you can relate and a further 1 minute 19 seconds to make a comment on "how do you get your stuff done ie how do you overcome procastination? Thanks and enjoy!

Monday Motivation: 25th July 2011: Humour and Hope

“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.”  Bill Cosby

You ARE a millionaire: July 11, 2011

"You are a time millionaire - for a rich life invest wisely." 

(Richard Andrews, KYT Stage and Screen Academy)

We have about half a million minutes to our disposal every year.