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• Drink FRESH water and as much water as you can. Water flushes unwanted toxins from your body and keeps your brain sharp.

• A daily hit of athletic-induced endorphins gives you the power to make better decisions, helps you be at peace with yourself, and offsets stress.
• Do one thing a day that scares you.
• Listen, listen, listen, and then ask strategic questions.
• Write down your short and long-term GOALS four times a year. Two personal, two business and two health goals for the next 1, 5 and 10 years. Goal setting triggers your subconscious computer.
• Life is full of setbacks. Success is determined by how you handle setbacks.
• Your outlook on life is a direct reflection of how much you like yourself.
• That which matters the most should never give way to that which matters the least.
• Stress is related to 99% of all illness.
• Jealousy works the opposite way you want it to.
• The world is changing at such a rapid rate that waiting to implement changes will leave you 2 steps behind. DO IT NOW, DO IT NOW, DO IT NOW!
• Friends are more important than money.
• Breathe deeply and appreciate the moment. Living in the moment could be the meaning of life.
• Take various vitamins. You never know what small mineral can eliminate the bottleneck to everlasting health.
• Don’t trust that an old age pension will be sufficient.
• Visualize your eventual demise. It can have an amazing effect on how you live for the moment.
• The conscious brain can only hold one thought at a time. Choose a positive thought.
• Live near the ocean and inhale the pure salt air that flows over the water, Vancouver will do nicely.
• Observe a plant before and after watering and relate these benefits to your body and brain.
• Practice yoga so you can remain active in physical sports as you age.
• Dance, sing, floss and travel.
• Children are the orgasm of life. Just like you did not know what an orgasm was before you had one, nature does not let you know how great children are until you have them.
• Successful people replace the words “wish”, “should” and “try” with “I will”.
• Creativity is maximized when you’re living in the moment.
• Nature wants us to be mediocre because we have a greater chance to survive and reproduce. Mediocre is as close to the bottom as it is to the top, and will give you a lousy life.
• lululemon athletica creates components for people to live longer, healthier and more fun lives. If we can produce products to keep people active and stress-free, we believe the world will become a much better place.
• Do not use cleaning chemicals on your kitchen counters. Someone will inevitably make a sandwich on your counter.
• SWEAT once a day to regenerate your skin.
• Communication is COMPLICATED. We are all raised in a different family with slightly different definitions of every word. An agreement is an agreement only if each party knows the conditions for satisfaction and a time is set for satisfaction to occur.
• What we do to the earth we do to ourselves.
• The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness.

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Enjoy!

Today

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Have a good weekend; get out there.

Outlook

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"Your outlook on life is a direct reflection on how much you like yourself."
-Lululemon

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"Winter is long, but Spring will come."
-Amy, in a rare moment of wisdom

Thankfully, we can simulate spring by starting things afresh.
We (your awesome inspire-ers) are shaking off the winter blues by switching up templates (hope you like this one).
What will you do to shake off the blues?
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Please pause to answer our poll. Or the next post will be a frowny face.

Can you hear the music?

Inspiration Revealed

I typed "Inspiration is" into google and this is what I got:

Inspiration is magical

Inspiration is the inbreath of spirit

Inspiration is something to have and to hold

Inspiration is everywhere!

Inspiration is 1%, the rest is making it happen

Inspiration is only the beginning of great work

Inspiration is where you find it (...? lol!)

An Inspiration is an inspiration (confirmed.)

Inspiration is an old piano

Inspiration is perishable

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens.

Inspiration is all in the family

Inspiration is just outside your door.

Bear With Me

I wanted to make Saturday a little more fun.
I love teddy bears (and real bears), so I thought I'd make a picture post.
Maybe they'll inspire smiles. Heehee..

click cartoon for enlargement. :)

100th Post!

"People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them."

Paulo Coelho

Something Inspiring I stumbled across

(a 1997 Commencement Address)

Wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.

Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.

Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.

Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen.

Happy?

A Note to the Readers

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Sometimes, the writers are busy.
Take this as your cue to go out and use the advice we've already given.
:)
Hope you're all having a great weekend.
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A Reminder

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"Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it."

-GORDON R. DICKSON

Advice, like most other things, is no good if you don't use it.

Have a Happy Halloween!
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Treat Yourself!

Treat yourself to something delicious this weekend. (hot fudge sundae with extra caramel anybody?) You've earned it!

Bonus points if it's seasonal! -pumpkin cheesecake..mm!

Now You Know

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Happy Saturday!

2 Things To Live By:

1. Do things with purpose.

2. Make the most of your time.

Play

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This Saturday, I suggest you go to a playground. And play! Even for a little while. You know, playgrounds aren't just for children. And neither is candy. Or ice cream cones. Or naps. Or Disney movies. Seriously. Be confident in your maturity as you swing from the swing or slide down that slide. Try out the monkey bars! Learn to have fun (especially if it's somewhere you didn't expect to have it).
Yes, even if it's raining. Clothes can always be washed.

Truth

“Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend, or a meaningful day.” ~Dalai Lama

Start Dreaming

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We can't make our dreams come true until we've dreamed them up.
Pluck a dream from your imagination, and go with it.
There's no better time than now.

Today how about we...

How about we all just take the day off? Readjust your busy schedules and free up your day, take a breather and just enjoy the calm.