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You can take charge of your own life - today.

Believe in yourself. A daily affirmation may seem to be a silly idea, but give it a try anyway. Write your own affirmation about your abilities, and repeat it each day before you leave your home. Start with the following, and modify it until it fully expresses your commitments, beliefs, and intents.

I am unlimited.
I take responsibility for my life.
My every action is a conscious choice.
I can accomplish anything good that I truly set my mind on.
I keep focus, and persevere.

Make peace with your past. In the words of William Shakespeare, "What's done is done." You can't change the past. You can't undo any actions you took or failed to take. Your only choice today is either to waste energy and emotion on regrets and resentments, or to treat your own past like a history book - an interesting, but emotionally neutral, recitation of ancient times.

See each day as a new beginning. Don't project your past onto your future. Suppose you won the lottery yesterday, would that mean you will win the lottery again tomorrow? Usually, we are fairly realistic about not expecting a run of good fortune to continue, but when we hit a streak of bad luck, we tend to project that failure into our future and think times will never get better. So you stepped on a banana peel and slipped yesterday, does that mean it will happen again tomorrow? If you got fired or your lover left, it's unfortunate, but there's always tomorrow - a tomorrow that can shine so long as you don't project yesterday's shadow upon it.

Good morning Nancy and everyone.Do you want to borrow my St. Bernard out there in Va. Nancy,lol.With all that snow your getting you might need it,lol.Just be careful and stay warm.And your right,we can not change yesterday,but we always have a clean slate with our todays.

Hi Lori, thanks yes I would like the St. Bernard and now it is sleeting on top of the snow with new snow to start around Noon so I may be here a while. It is too bad we don't have a restaurant on premise. LOL And today is definitely a clean slate. Have a great day.

Good morning, everyone. I woke up this morning to an absolutely stunning winter landscape. It's a wet snow, so it stuck on all the tree branches. Just beautiful! Nancy, I heard that you are in for some very heavy snow. Hope that you do not lose power. Stay warm and drink some hot cocoa. This would be just the day for it.

I'm off to bake cookies. Enjoy today and be sure to laugh.

Good mornin' everyone. Nancy, great post! Lori,
hook up a sled to that St. Bernard and say "Mush"
or is that only for huskies? LOL Janet, send me some
of those cookies please! hahahaha We're supposed
to get snow tomorrow but they say it may probably turn
out to sea just before it hits here, so maybe a little bit
of snow.

Everyone stay safe and warm!

Hugs to all!
Jody