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dianechi · 5 years
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Your Inner Strength: Self-control
Your Inner Strength: Self-control – This is your ability to manage your response in any. Many of us have good self-control in some areas of our lives but not others. We have to work on each area in which we want or need to build self-control.
My superpower is self-control. ~ Anonymous
I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them. ~Joyce Meyer
Self-control, also called self-regulations doesn’t just happen. You have to work at it. But is it worth it? Grenville Kleiser, an early 20th century writer and motivational speaker…
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dianechi · 5 years
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Your Inner Strength: Persistence
Your Inner Strength: Persistence
Persist Like a Postage Stamp
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job. ~ Napoleon Hill
To persist means to stick to a course of action in spite of obstacles and setbacks. Persistence is a skill you can develop with patient practice. Just because you are persistent in one thing does not automatically mean that you are will be…
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dianechi · 5 years
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Your Inner Strength: Hope
Hope is based on reality, not by wishful thinking. It fuels your goals and the action plan to reach those goals. Hopeful people are healthier, more productive and more successful that pessimists. Hope is "I can do it!"
There is Still Hope by Tjod
The very purpose of our life is happiness, which is sustained by hope. We have no guarantee about the future, but we exist in the hope of something better. Hope means keeping going, thinking, “I can do this.” It brings inner strength, self-confidence, [and] the ability to do what you do honestly, truthfully, and transparently.” – Dalai Lama
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dianechi · 5 years
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Mattie Stepanek: Amazing Person/Everyday Hero
Mattie Stepanek: Amazing Person/Everyday Hero
Mattie Stepanek (Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek) would probably be embarrassed by the title of this article. He was a poet, a  peace advocate and motivational speaker who wanted to be known as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played. He published seven books of poetry and essays on peace.
Mattie knew a lot about rough times, He was 13 years old when he died from complications…
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dianechi · 5 years
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Your Inner Strength: Creativity
Your Inner Strength: Creativity
Yes. You are Creative!
When you first read the title of the post, you probably asked yourself: Why is she writing about creativity?  I have no creativity! So, why should I care about it?
Well, Twyla Tharpanswered your questions in the quote above. Ms. Tharp is a successful dancer, choreographer, director and author, so she knows a thing or two about creativity. I am…
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dianechi · 5 years
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Your Inner Strength: Spirituality
Your Inner Strength: Spirituality: Spirituality is highly personal and we all have something we believe in that shapes and drives our lives.
Spirituality – A Way of Seeing Life
Spirituality is a way of living and a way of seeing life… Because Spirituality is about authentic living as well as meaning making; it is a highly personal reality. ~ H. Anderson, Feet Planted Firmly in Midair (1999)
We all have something we believe in. It is part of our nature. According to Psychology Today Basics:
Research shows that even skeptics can’t…
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dianechi · 5 years
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Your Inner Strength: Fairness
Your Inner Strength: Fairness
Fairness: Fair Mindedness or Being Fair
Happy Old Goat
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring and integrity, they think of you ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat then promptly withdrew the charge – out of fairness to goats. ~ Jeffrey Kluger
Animals have an innate sense of fairness. Don’t believe me?…
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dianechi · 5 years
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Celebrate Your Inner Fool
Celebrate Your Inner Fool
Be Authentic – Celebrate Your Inner Fool
Mark Twain
April 1: This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God’s fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect.
~ Mark Twain
We can always count on Mark Twin to “cut to the chase,” or”tell it like it really is” and April Fool’s…
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dianechi · 5 years
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Your Inner Strength: Prudence
Your Inner Strength: Prudence
Prudence (Forethought, Good Judgement or Common Sense)
Question: What do Britney Spears, Martha Stewart, and the character strength Prudence have in common?
Answer: They all need a good publicist and an image makeover.
~ Ben Dean, PhD
Prudence has a bad reputation. It is not the name of my great-grandmother nor does prudentdescribe your timid co-worker who is afraid to make a decision.…
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dianechi · 5 years
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Noodle on This: Patience
Noodle on This: Patience
Noodle* on this…
Patience is the companion of wisdom. ~ St. Augustine
Patience is not about how long you wait, but how you behave while waiting. ~ Anonymous
This dog has learned patience and wisdom. Have you? How do you behave while you are waiting?
Read more about Patience and Wisdom.
To noodle: A verb meaning to mull over, think about, contemplate, ponder, puzzle over or brainstorm.
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dianechi · 5 years
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Your Inner Strength: Wisdom
Your Inner Strength: Wisdom
Gain Wisdom Developing wisdom is like panning for gold. It requires work and persistence.
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold and to get understanding rather than silver! ~ Proverbs 16:16
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. ~ Confucius
Today, more than ever,…
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dianechi · 5 years
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Noodle on This: Good Manners = Respect
Noodle on This: Good Manners = Respect
Noodle* on this… Being rude does not make you right.
You can get through life with bad manners, but it’s easier with good manners. ~ Lillian Gish
In our tell it like it is, anything goes society, etiquette, also known as good manners, seems quaint, if not downright antiquated. In fact, good manners are becoming so rare that British actor Bill Nighy said, if you have an enthusiasm for what they…
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dianechi · 5 years
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Your Inner Strength: Kindness
Your Inner Strength: Kindness
Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people. ~ Dennis Prager.
Is Kindness Missing In Action?
According to psychologist Dacher Keltner, PhD, our mammalian and hominid evolution have crafted a species — us — with remarkable tendencies toward kindness, play, generosity, reverence…
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dianechi · 5 years
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Art and Inspiration
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. ~ Bertrand Russell
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing.  Making your unknown known is the important thing. ~ Georgia O’Keeffe
February 6, 2019: Curious Gouldin Finch (Original watercolor painting by Diane Chinn © 2018 All Rights Reserved)
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dianechi · 5 years
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Noodle on This: Live Mindfully
Noodle on This: Live Mindfully
Noodle* on this…
Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness… It means paying attention in a particular way; on purpose, in the present moment and without judgement.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn, M.D
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response, lies our growth and our freedom. ~Viktor Frankl, M.D.
Mindfulness resides in…
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dianechi · 5 years
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Your Inner Strength: Curiousity
Your Inner Strength: Curiousity
Curious Much?
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. ~ Bernard Beckett
Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. ~ Linus Pauling
We humans are born curious but as we grow up, that innate curiosity tends…
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dianechi · 5 years
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Noodle on This: The Road Not Taken
Noodle on This: The Road Not Taken
Noodle* on this…
The Road Not Taken 
By Robert Frost (1920)
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…
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