Bill Cosby's key to failure

I know what you're thinking. Wait, that must be a typo. Why would anyone give advice on how to fail? Well, actually, Dr. Cosby is just driving a very good point home. One that I wish I had really listened to and practiced years ago. It would have saved me a lot of time.

I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

(Bill Cosby)

So be open to the advice and opinions that people are always eager to offer. That never ends..
But when it comes to making decisions and doing the right thing for you, there's only one person you need to please.
And that's the person you looking back at you from your mirror every morning.

Do you need a boost of courage?

We all do sometimes. So here's a boost for all of us!
Thanks Mr. Rather - your words always deliver encouragement to us.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
(Dan Rather)

"Dawn's Guide to Life" - I didn't even know I had one until I found it!!

Last week I opened one of my songwriting notebooks from 2007 only to find something I didn't even know I was looking for.
Written in blue magic marker on a pink sheet of paper, I found "Dawn's Guide To Life".
I didn't even know I had a "guide to life"! I laughed to myself and thought "oh, this oughtta be good"!
You know what? It was. But not in the sarcastic way I thought.
It's EXACTLY what I needed to read at that exact moment and it was written by me, no less.
I love finding new books, quotes and theories, written by people from all walks of life, that inspire me. So to find something that inspired me that I had written and didn't even recall was well, a little gift.
It was a little like finding a time capsule, that you didn't remember burying when you were 7 years old, and unearthing it when you're planting a new flower bed.
Anyway, I've already shared it with a couple of you, but, I decided I needed to share it with anyone else who might benefit from it too! I'm even putting it on both of my blogs!
I hope you enjoy! Some of the thoughts are my own, some are from friends and some are general knowledge but I like them all together like this.
And please add on if you have any "guides to life" yourself! We're all learning as we go...

Dawn's Guide To Life
1. Never doubt yourself.
2. Always trust your 1st instinct - it's usually best & rarely wrong.
3. Ask for what you want and believe you shall receive.
4. What would the 3 year old you, 13 year old you, &/or 23 year old you think of ____________ (who you are, how you treat people, whatever you're doing, or what you're trying to decide) now?
5. Progress is better than perfection.
6.You will do more for yourself than anyone else will ever do for you.
7. Don't be tentative - EVER!!
8. I BELIEVE IN YOU!! (even when it might feel like no one else does)
9.You have a purpose and a calling in this place. Do it or if you don't know yet, find it!
10. You are GOOD, life is GOOD & God/ the Universe is GOOD, thus expect that GOOD will come to you!

Now if I can only practice what I preach, er, write to myself.
Well, you know what they say, practice makes perfect. Ahem, I MEAN
Practice makes progress!

Wanna know how to be beautiful? I bet you already are!

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
(Audrey Hepburn)

Listen to the "Cricket" singing:

"When your heart is in your dream,
no request is too extreme."
(Jiminy Cricket)

How? The how takes care of itself

Our job is not to figure out the how. The HOW will show up out of a commitment & belief in the what.
(Jack Canfield)