“God, I thank you for this day.  I know I have not accomplished as yet all you expect of me, and if that is your reason for bathing me in the fresh dew of another dawn, I am most grateful. I am prepared, at last, to make you proud of me.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will forget yesterday, with all its trials and tribulations, aggravations and setbacks, angers and frustrations.  The past is already a dream from which I can neither retrieve a single word nor erase any foolish deeds.  I will resolve, however, if I have injured anyone through my thoughtlessness, I will not let this day’s sun set before I make amends, and nothing I do today will be of greater importance.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will not fret the future. My success and happiness does not depend on straining to see what lurks dimly on the horizon but to do this day what lies clearly at hand.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will treasure this day because it is all I have. I know it’s rushing hours cannot be accumulated or stored like precious grain for future use.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will live this day as all good actors do when they are onstage, only in the moment. I cannot perform at my best today regretting my past acts mistakes or worrying about the scene to come.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will embrace today’s difficult tasks, take off my coat and make dust in the world. I know the busier I am, the less harm I am apt to suffer, the tastier will be my food, the sweeter my sleep and the better satisfied I will be with my place in the world.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will free myself today from slavery to the clock and calendar and though I will plan this day to conserve my steps and energy; I will begin to measure my life in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not seasons; and in feelings, not figures on a dial.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will remain aware of how little it takes to make this a happy day. Never will I pursue happiness because it is not a goal, just a by-product and there is no happiness in having or getting, only in giving.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will run from no danger I might encounter today, because I am certain that nothing will happen to me that I am not equipped to handle with your help. Just as any gem is polished by friction. I am certain to become more valuable through this day’s adversities, and if one door closes, you always open another for me.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will live this day as if it were Christmas and I will be a giver of gifts. To my enemies I will give the gift of forgiveness; to my opponents, tolerance; to my friends, a smile; and to my children, a good example, and every gift will be wrapped with unconditional love.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will treat today as a priceless violin. One may draw harmony from it and another, discord, yet no one will blame the instrument. Life is the same, and if I play it correctly, it will give forth beauty, but if I play it ignorantly, it will produce ugliness.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will condition myself to see every problem I encounter today as if it were no more than a pebble in my shoe. I remember the pain, so harsh I could hardly walk, and recall my surprise when I removed my shoe and found only a grain of sand.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will work convinced that nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. To do anything today that is truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will face the world with goals set for this day, but they will be attainable ones, not the vague, impossible variety declared by those who make a career of failure. I realize that you always try me with a little, first, to see what I would do with a lot.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will never hide my talents. If I am silent, I am forgotten, if I do not advance, I will fall back. If I walk away from any challenge today, my self-esteem will be forever scarred, and if I cease to grow, even a little, I will become smaller. I reject the stationary position because it is always the beginning of the end.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today. I know that the world is a looking glass and gives back to me the reflection of my own soul. Now I understand the secret of correcting the attitude of others and that is to correct my own.”

~ Og Mandino

“ I will turn away from any temptation today that might cause me to break my word or lose my self-respect. I am positive that the only thing I possess more valuable than my life is my honor.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will work this day with all my strength, content in the knowledge that life does not consist of wallowing in the past or peering anxiously at the future. It is appalling to contemplate the great number of painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old, so obvious, and so frequently expressed. Whatever it offers, little or much, my life is now.”

~ Og Mandino

“I will pause whenever I am feeling sorry for myself today, and remember that this is the only day I have and I must play it to the fullest. What my part may signify in the great whole, I may not recognize, but I am here to play it and now is the time.”

~ Og Mandino

I will count this day a separate life. I will remember that those who have fewest regrets are those who take each moment as it comes for all that it is worth.

This is my day.
These are my seeds.
Thank you, God, for this precious garden of time!

~ Og Mandino

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

~ Robert Frost

1) I will be kind in thought word and action

2) I will take nothing personally and I will flow with everything

3) I will confirm perceptions before jumping to conclusions

4) I will give my best effort and live without regret

5) I will learn from everything and awaken my senses to every little thing

~ Don Miguel Ruiz and Rob McBride

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

~ William Shakespeare

Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear’t that th’ opposed may beware of thee.

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express’d in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
…
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

This above all- to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

~ William Shakespeare

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming. To he who actually strives to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Every day is one less day
every night another night
deep inside we wonder what it’s all
about if everything is so brief and light

every beach is another beach
until it is overtaken by the sea
and the four seasons make no
noise in corners of reality

every god is a god of nothing
who has been left without eternity
and in the meantime the birds fight
with the air as they learn to fly

every death is the death of another
and we forget them so as not to cry
but also there are those who / in innocence/
in bare feet cross on over to the other side

every day is one less day
every night another night
but as long as there are roses in sight
life is a celebration in which to delight.

~ Mario Benedetti

Everything comes and everything goes but ours is to go,
to go making roads over the ocean.

I never went after glory, nor to leave on the minds of men my song.
I love the simple things, weightless and light, like soap bubbles.

I like to see them reflect the sun and the grain, float beneath the great blue sky, suddenly shake and then break.

I never went after glory…

Walking are your footsteps, the road and nothing more.
Walking there is no road
We make our road as we go.

As we go, we make our road and as we look back,
See the road over which we will never again go.
Walking there is no road, only the wake we leave as we go…

For a very long time and in the very same place the forests have been dressed in thorns.
A poet was heard shouting:
“Walking there is no road, we make our road as we go…”
Blow by blow, verse by verse.

The poet died a long way from home.
The dust of a neighboring nation covers his soul.
When he left, they saw him cry:
“Walking there is no road, we make our road as we go…”
Blow by blow, verse by verse.

When the songbird can no longer sing,
When the poet is a pilgrim,
When not even praying helps:
Walking there is no road, we make our road as we go…
Blow by blow, verse by verse.
Blow by blow, verse by verse.
Blow by blow, verse by verse.

~ Joan Manuel Serrat with José Antonio Machado

Make it a great day, unless of course, you have other plans…

This morning I awoke excited about all of the things I have to do today before the alarm went off. I am important and my job is to choose what kind of day I will have.

I can complain because it is raining… or I can give thanks because the plants are being watered.

I can feel sad because I don’t have more money… or I can be happy because my financial situation drives me to plan my purchases more intelligently.

I can complain about my health… or rejoice that I am alive.

I can feel sorry for what my parents didn’t give me when I was growing up… or I can be thankful to them for allowing me to be born.

I can cry because the roses have thorns… or I can celebrate that the thorns have roses.

I can feel sorry for myself because I don’t have many friends… or I can get excited and embark on an adventure to discover new relationships.

I can complain because I have to go to work… or I can shout with joy because I have a job.

I can complain because I have to go to school… or I can open my mind energetically and fill it with new, rich knowledge.

I can mutter bitterly because I have housework to do… or I can feel honored because I have a roof for my mind and my body.

The day presents itself before me, waiting for me to give it form, and here I am; I am the sculptor and on me it depends what kind of day I will have today.

Make it a great day unless, of course, you have other plans.

~ Attributed to Mario Benedetti

You’re not depressed, you’re distracted…

Distracted by the life which fills you. You have a heart, a brain, a soul, and a spirit; so how can you feel poor and wretched? Distracted by the life which surrounds you. Dolphins, forests, oceans, mountains, rivers.

Don’t fall into what your brother fell who suffers for one human being when there are more than 5.6 billion in the world, and besides, it’s not so bad living alone. I enjoy each moment deciding what I am going to do, and thanks to the solitude, I know myself, which is fundamental for living.

Don’t fall into what your father fell who feels old at 70, forgetting that Moises led the Exodus at 80, and Rubenstein played Chopin like nobody at 90, just to cite two known examples.

You’re not depressed, you’re distracted…

That’s why you think you lost something which is impossible because everything has been given to you. You didn’t make not even one single strand of hair on your head, and as such, can own nothing. Besides, life doesn’t take things away from you, it frees you from them, making you lighter so that you can fly higher and reach plentitude.

From the cradle to the coffin is a university. That’s why what you call problems are actually lessons. Life is dynamic, and that’s why it’s always in movement, and why you need only be aware of the present…

You didn’t lose anybody. Those who have died simply beat you to the punch, because we are all headed there. Besides, the best of them, their love, remains deep inside of you.

You can’t find happiness, and it’s so easy. You need only listen first to your heart before your head intervenes…

Do only what you love and you will be happy because those who love what they do are blessedly condemned to success, which must come when it will come, because what must be will be, and will come naturally.

~ Facundo Cabral

Life is made up of moments…

Magical moments which make us quiver with pleasure and form an integral part of existence. Moments which become the motion pictures of our mind and are available 24/7 to anchor us to those experiences which confirm how marvelous it is to be on this incredible journey we call life.

Everyday moments in which consist our day to day and comprise a surprising number of our minutes, hours, and days. Moments which can be overlooked if we’re not paying attention to each instant; the flight of a bird, the intense color of a flower, the invisible air giving us life.

~ Rob McBride

Happy Friday de Tolerancia covered in Purple

I am so happy to have you here with me, let’s get started with the first seed:

“God, I thank you for this day.  I know I have not accomplished as yet all you expect of me, and if that is your reason for bathing me in the fresh dew of another dawn, I am most grateful. I am prepared, at last, to make you proud of me.”

– Og Mandino

My suggestion to you is quite “simple” but not so “easy.”  You will be tempted to give up, and likely wonder if it is worth the trouble.  I guarantee you it will work, and if for any reason it does not, I will give you a full refund of time spent to with as you please : )

Simply memorize the words I give you over the next 21 days, and implement them into your life.  I will give you one seed per day.  The entire exercise should not take more than 5 or 10 minutes per day. As you memorize the seeds, I suggest you do the exercise at the same approximate time and place.  While I choose to do it first thing in the morning, do what works for you.

While the memorizing all of them may take longer than the 21 days we share here initially together, you can make the habit last you a lifetime.

Piece of cake, right?

You see, I realize that through the magic of modern technology, you and I are linked in this precise moment through these words which you now read.  Nothing else matters, just you and me… : )

Each day, I will start with the seed and then give you some of my thoughts about each one.

Regardless of your religious inclination, believe in something.  While I am certainly not here to tell you what to believe, my suggestion is to get right with your faith before anything else.  Even if you believe there is nothing, believe in it strongly, and be prepared to defend why you feel the way you do.

As for me, I believe life is to incredible to have just happened by chance.  I am convinced that someone, or something, is responsible.  I choose to call it God.

You can always see the all the Seeds of Success by Og Mandino here:

 https://www.robmcbride.net/seeds-of-success-by-og-mandino/

I’ll see you again tomorrow!

#2 “I will forget yesterday, with all its trials and tribulations, aggravations and setbacks, angers and frustrations. The past is already a dream from which I can neither retrieve a single word nor erase any foolish deeds. I will resolve, however, that if I have injured anyone yesterday through my thoughtlessness, I will not let this day’s sun set before I make amends, and nothing I do today will be of greater importance.”   – Og Mandino

Hello, and welcome back, it’s so nice to have you here with me…

Do you already have the first seed memorized?

Do you remember how it starts?

On to today’s lesson. Of all of the seeds we will examine, perhaps this is the one which can best help us to “forgive and forget.”

While it is entertaining to rehash the past, it does absolutely no good. Instead, we can relive and relish those wonderful moments, and simply put the other terrible ones behind us.

Before we do, however, let’s make sure we make amends with anyone who we may have injured through our “thoughtlessness,” as the master Og, so aptly suggests.

By leaving yesterday in the past, we can enjoy today much better.

See you again tomorrow, make it a great day!

“#3  I will not fret the future. My success and happiness do not depend on straining to see what lurks dimly on the horizon but to do, this day, what lies clearly at hand.”

– Og Mandino

Hello and welcome back…

Can we live the future today?

Does worrying about the future serve some special purpose?

While we cannot change the future, we can adjust our sails today to fill them with wind of happiness to take us to the place we have always wanted to be.

Tomorrow will come when it will come, for now…

All we have is today, so my suggestion to you…

Make it a great day!

See you tomorrow

#4  “I will treasure this day, for it is all I have. I know that its rushing hours cannot be accumulated or stored, like precious grain, for future use.”  – Og Mandino

Hello there…

It’s nice to have you back…

How are you doing on your memorization of the seeds?

Remember, what is left undone today, can be left undone forever, and this is part of my message for you today.  Seed #1, gives thanks for the day, seed #2, tells us to leave yesterday in the past, and seed #3, reminds us we need not fret the future…

Seed #4, instructs us to enjoy this moment, right here, right now.  Can you for a minute doubt anything else exists except what we have right now in this instant?

Through the magic of space and time, you and I are now here together.  Nothing else matters, nothing else exists in this exact instant, except for you and me.

While I know you, and I do know you take time to smell the roses, take a little more time today.  Each person who crosses our path, the wind that blows our way, and even every little inconvenience is part of this moment which is perfect, and as it must be.

Enjoy this instant each and every moment…

Hasta luego until my next torrent…

: )

Hello and welcome back…

It’s so nice to have you here again… : )

We tend to learn much from our parents.  One of the main things I learned from my mother is that most people really don’t care how we feel, or if we are having a good day or a bad day.

Sure, there are exceptions, and if we are lucky, we have some people who care about us and how we feel.  But what about a client, or a colleague, or someone we meet on the street.  Should they necessarily care about how we feel?

A client deserves the best we have to offer, regardless of how we feel.  The same goes for a colleague and/or anyone else we meet on the street.  We owe it to ourselves and to the world to put our best foot forward and give it our best shot.

How about you?

Are you giving the best of yourself in everything you do, or do you stay on the sidelines feeling sorry for yourself?

While sometimes tempting to bathe in a pool of self pity, pick yourself when you feel down, put on your most dazzling smile and conquer the world…

Go for it!

#6  “I will embrace today’s difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world. I will remember that the busier I am, the less harm I am apt to suffer, the tastier will be my food, the sweeter my sleep, and the better satisfied I will be with my place in the world.”  – Og Mandino

Hello there, and welcome back…

So glad to have you here with me…

How are you doing on your memorization?

On today’s video, I begin at seed number one and go all the way to number six.  If you have no idea what I am talking about, you might want to go to message number #1 here where you can always see, “My messages for you…”

https://www.robmcbride.net/category/english/my-message-for-you/

Have you ever noticed that those who are busy, always seem to get more things done?

The saying which tells us if we want to get something done, to give it to a busy person is apt.  Those who have the most to do are frequently those who are most effective at taking on new projects.

As master Og instructs us, we indeed suffer less harm, enjoy our food more, have sweeter sleep, and me more satisfied with our place in the world when we are busy.

While it is nice to have a pity party for ourselves every once in a while, let’s get up, shake ourselves off, and “make dust in the world.”

Make this day your day, and make it a great day!

#7  “I will free myself today from slavery to the clock and calendar. Although I will plan this day in order to conserve my steps and energy, I will begin to measure my life in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not seasons; in feelings, not figures on a dial.”  – Og Mandino

Hello there, and welcome back…

Our world is filled with time commitments and obligations which require we be almost constantly aware of the time.  We have a work schedule we must comply with.  We must get our children to school by a certain time, and pick them up at another.  Similarly, our days are filled with a never ending haze of activity to achieve some sort of ultimate goal.

While we should, as Master Og so aptly tells us, “plan our day to conserve our steps and our energy, we should never let time be our master, rather we should master our time…

Our lives should indeed be measured in terms of deeds, thoughts and feelings.  This exercise I do with you is one of my deeds.  While I realize you, and I, have many things we can be doing right now, I believe this time is well worthwhile, as do you otherwise you would not be reading me, at least not this far… 😉

So my proposal to you is to begin to measure your life in deeds, thoughts and feelings so as to fill your life with a never ending stream of blessings…

Make it a great day!

#8  “I will remain aware of how little it takes to make this a happy day. Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.” – Og Mandino

Nice to have you back for this day, since the #8  is my favorite day…

Are you aware of how little it takes to make this a happy day?

Happiness truly does come in giving, and in giving you these words today, my day is complete.

How are you doing at giving of yourself to others?

We normally think about giving “things” to other people, but how about giving of ourselves to others, and giving them our most important asset, which is our time.

In order to get, we need simply give, it’s as simple as that…

To round off today’s lesson is just a quick reminder of one way to memorize any “list” of things you might want to memorize.  In this case, it can be memorizing the Seeds of Success by Og Mandino.

Take the number of each seed and relate it to something which has meaning for you.  For example, I remember the first few seeds with the following links:

1: GOD

2: TOMORROW

3: FUTURE – STOOL

4: TREASURE – FOUR CORNERS

5: ACTOR: FIVE FINGERS UP

Make something which works for you, make the seeds yours, and when you have them memorized, and you implement them into your life, magical things will happen…

In the meantime, make it a great day!

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#9  “I will run from no danger I might encounter today, because I am certain that nothing will happen to me that I am not equipped to handle with your help. Just as any gem is polished by friction, I am certain to become more valuable through this day’s adversities, and if you close one door, you always open another for me.”  – Og Mandino

Hello there, and welcome back…

Today’s message is about faith.  While it is one of the largest, and admittedly one of the most difficult to memorize for me, it is perhaps the one seed which can most help us when we need a shot of encouragement to continue forward.

While the scope and extent of your faith likely differs from mine, most important is to have some kind of faith in something…

When we get right with our faith, we are right with the world and ourselves.

Make this day your day, and…

Make it a rocking great day!

#10  “I will live this day as if it were Christmas. I will be a giver of gifts and deliver to my enemies the gift of forgiveness; my opponents, tolerance; my friends, a smile and my children, a good example, and every gift will be wrapped with unconditional love.”  – Og Mandino

So nice to have you here with me…

This is one of my very favorite seeds.  When we give gifts, we receive the bounty life has to give in return.  If we want to receive more, we need only give more, just as we saw in seed #8.

When we give the give of forgiveness to our enemies, we are the ones who benefit the most.

When we give the gift of tolerance to our opponents, petty annoyances become easier to handle.

When we give our friends a smile, though we may need to toil, we can always go another mile.

And, when we give our children a good example, the gifts we receive in life are much more ample.

Wrap every gift you give with love and life will fit like a nice snug glove…

#11  “I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow, I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day.”  – Og Mandino

Nice to have you here again…

Today’s message can help us to focus on what is truly important and make sure we plant good seeds, as Master Og, so aptly states…

Do you ever feel anger or hatred?

How about jealousy or selfishness?

Of course you do, you see, I know you…

While it is natural to feel these emotions, I have a question for you:

What good does it do to feel angry, hateful, jealous, or selfish?

Does it do you any good to be angry at someone who may not even know we exist, or give us a second thought?

Will any amount of hatred fix a wrong?

Can any amount of jealousy make our mate happy?

Will being selfish serve you in the long-term, or is it just a quick fix?

Rather than spending our time worrying about meaningless emotions, instead we can concentrate on planting good seeds this day.

Instead of being mad, we can be glad.

Instead of hating someone, we can love everyone.

Instead of being jealous for our mate’s lack of interest, we can create interest.

Instead of being selfish and thinking always about ourselves, we can instead think of others.

As we will see later in seed #17, “Life is a looking glass,” and it does indeed, “give us back a reflection of our own soul.”  We get what we give, what we sow, we shall harvest.

Instead of letting petty problems permeate our thoughts, we can instead spread seeds of love and happiness to create a garden worthy of admiration.

While not all of the seeds we sow will grow, some will…

* I want to thank you for joining me this far in our journey, we are a little more than half-way through.

** Since I have two trips coming up, a large conference I am giving, the launch for my next book, and my youngest daughter’s wedding during the next month, I will take a break here from my messages for you, but just for now…

*** I will be back in about 28 days, to finish up my work here with you, because you see, we are not through.  In the meantime, memorize the words, repeat them daily, and live them fully.  This is not an “adios,” rather an “hasta luego”…

I’ll see you on the other side… : )

#12  I will treat today as a priceless violin. One may draw harmony from it and another, discord, yet no one will blame the instrument. Life is the same, and if I play it correctly, it will give forth beauty, but if I play it ignorantly, it will produce ugliness.

Welcome back…

It’s nice to have you here again…

Have you ever thought of life as a priceless instrument?

Think of the people you know.  Surely, some of them play life well, while others play it poorly.

Why does one person receive love and abundance, while another receives hatred and scarcity?

It has to do with how we play life.  To play the “instrument” of life well, we must learn all we can about it and practice before we can truly play it well.

Some people study an instrument an entire lifetime to be able to create a beautiful harmony.  Every single day is a gift from God which we can play well, to bring forth beauty; or play it poorly, to produce ugliness.

Let’s choose beauty over ugliness.

PS  You can see ALL of “My Messages For You” at this link:

https://www.robmcbride.net/category/english/my-message-for-you/

#13  I will condition myself to look on every problem I encounter today as no more than a pebble in my shoe. I remember the pain, so harsh I could hardly walk, and recall my surprise when I removed my shoe and found only a grain of sand.”

~ Og Mandino

Nice to have you here again, or for the first time, as the case may be.

If you would like to start with my first Message to you, you can go here:

https://www.robmcbride.net/my-message-for-you-1/

And you can see all of my Messages to you here:

https://www.robmcbride.net/category/english/my-message-for-you/

Do you doubt for a moment that the most difficult circumstance will tomorrow appear to have been but a pebble in your shoe?

When we condition ourselves to see problems as mere hindrances in our path, we can achieve much more.

This is a great seed to come back to when life seems to be a bit overwhelming.

Make it a great day!

#14  “I will work convinced that nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. To do anything today that is truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.”

~ Og Mandino

Welcome back to this special day to talk about ENTHUSIASM.

Enthusiasm is that little extra we can put in everything we do to make each day a much better today.

We can be more enthusiastic in our relationships, in our work, in our hopes and in our dreams.

Rather than, “Standing back shivering and thinking of the cold and the danger, jump in with gusto,” as Og Mandino so wisely suggests.

When we give our very best effort, day in and day out, we achieve much more.

Make this day your day, and make it a great day!

#15  “I will face the world with goals set for this day, but they will be attainable ones, not the vague, impossible variety declared by those who make a career of failure. I realize that you always try me with a little, first, to see what I would do with a lot.”

~ Og Mandino

Today our seed deals with setting and achieving goals.

One of the definitions I heard about success many years ago, still seems to hold true today.

“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.”  – Earl Nightingale

As long as we are moving toward something we desire, we have the fire inside we need to get up and go daily in a world which does not always welcome us with open arms.

If we are going to set goals, as Og Mandino says, let’s make sure they are achievable and not those who make a “habit of failure.”  When we said daily goals which are attainable we are able to achieve much more.

And, as he says at the end of this seed; God, the powers that be, whoever or whatever you believe is responsible for us being here, tests us daily with a little, to see what we would do with a lot.

Do a little today, and everuy day, and you will surely get a lot of whatever it is you want.

@RobMcBride

#16  “I will never hide my talents. If I am silent, I am forgotten, if I do not advance, I will fall back. If I walk away from any challenge today, my self-esteem will be forever scarred, and if I cease to grow, even a little, I will become smaller. I reject the stationary position because it is always the beginning of the end.”

~ Og Mandino

Link to my first book A SPECIAL GIFT

Never hide your talents.

If you are silent, you will be forgotten.

If you walk away from any challenge today, your self-esteem will be forever scarred.

Never cease to grow, even if only just a little.

Reject the stationary position, show up to life daily and live out loud!

@RobMcBride

#17 “I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today. I know that the world is a looking glass and gives back to me the reflection of my own soul. Now I understand the secret of correcting the attitude of others and that is to correct my own.” – Og Mandino

Life is does in fact give back to us a reflection of our own soul.

What is the reflection you see today?

If you don’t like what you see, you need only change what you do.

When we smile at the world, the world smiles back.

@RobMcBride

#18  “I will turn away from any temptation today that might cause me to break my word or lose my self-respect. I am positive that the only thing I possess more valuable than my life is my honor.” – Og Mandino

Keep your word, do what you say, and you will find your way.

When we honor our word and do what we promise others we will do, we become known as a man, or a woman, of our word.

While others may not keep their word, for any one of a variety of reasons, be one of those who does!

@RobMcBride

#19  “I will work this day with all my strength, content in the knowledge that life does not consist of wallowing in the past or peering anxiously at the future. It is appalling to contemplate the great number of painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old, so obvious, and so frequently expressed. Whatever it offers, little or much, my life is now.”  – Og Mandino

We can work with all our strength knowing our life is now.

We cannot relive yesterday, and no matter how fast we run, we never reach tomorrow for when we get there, we find out it is today!

Each of these seeds builds upon the other.  From the very first seed, we have been establishing a foundation to live a life which is more meaningful and productive.

If you haven’t seen all of My messages for you, now you can right here:

MY MESSAGES FOR YOU

Make it a great day!

@RobMcBride

#20  “I will pause whenever I am feeling sorry for myself today, and remember that this is the only day I have and I must play it to the fullest. What my part may signify in the great whole, I may not recognize, but I am here to play it and now is the time.”  – Og Mandino

Have you ever felt sorry for yourself?

Me too…

Perhaps it is part of the human condition.

While there are likely many good reasons we might want to feel sorry for ourselves, can we doubt for a minute that all we really have is this moment?

Pause whenever you are feeling sorry for yourself and consider your part in this great whole.  As Og so aptly says, we may not realize what our part is in this great whole, but we are here to play life for all it is worth, and now is the time.

My mission here is clear, if you memorize, repeat and implement the Seeds of Success by Og Mandino into your life, you will be amazed at how wonderful life can be.

Make it a great day!

@RobMcBride

#21 I will count this day a separate life. I will remember that those who have fewest regrets are those who take each moment as it comes for all that it is worth.

This is my day
These are my seeds.
Thank you, God
For this precious garden of time.

– Og Mandino

Today, as part of my message to you, I give you ALL 21 of Og Mandino’s “Seeds of Success.”
Thanks for joining me for the ride!