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**Ann** · 07-24-2007, 03:21 AM

If you don't have a plan, random circumstances will make one for you. And you probably won't like it much.

Decide what you would like and go for it. Success is no more complicated than that.

The energy and time you spend can either bring you toward your dreams or it can keep you in the service of someone else's dream. Choose to follow your own dreams.

Explore your own most deeply held values and purposes. Decide precisely how you would like your world and your life to be.

The most dismal failures are not caused by the inability to reach a goal. Those failures are the result of not having a clear enough and meaningful enough goal.

Know exactly where you intend to go, and you're much more likely to get there. Have a plan, follow it with persistence, and enjoy being where you sincerely choose to be.

-- Ralph Marston

Copyright ©2007 Ralph S. Marston, Jr.

**Ann** · 07-24-2007, 03:35 AM

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Know exactly where you intend to go, and you're much more likely to get there. Have a plan, follow it with persistence, and enjoy being where you sincerely choose to be.

This reading and particularly this sentence reminds me that I have choices. I can choose how I will live today, even when long range plans seem out of reach.

I can choose to live today in misery and sadness, I can spend the day angry or feeling sorry for myself. OR, I can choose to live today in gratitude for all the good things in my life, content with where I am for now and with peace in my heart. I can choose to connect spiritually with my Higher Power and allow myself to be led, trusting that life will unfold exactly the way it is supposed to.

Just for today, I choose to live in gratitude and peace, knowing that tomorrow will unfold and show me blessings along the way.

Hugs

carl11 · 08-03-2007, 07:35 AM

Apt to be sure..one of the speakers at my meeting last night said he got tired of others making decisions for him as he was usually to out of it to make them himself.....and if course these decisions were by products of his destructive behaviors.....dui’s etc. and I agree...you have to be in the game to play it and make your own way...

07-24-2007, 03:21 AM	#1 (permalink)
Ann Forum Leader Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake Posts: 25,191	Have a Plan If you don't have a plan, random circumstances will make one for you. And you probably won't like it much. Decide what you would like and go for it. Success is no more complicated than that. The energy and time you spend can either bring you toward your dreams or it can keep you in the service of someone else's dream. Choose to follow your own dreams. Explore your own most deeply held values and purposes. Decide precisely how you would like your world and your life to be. The most dismal failures are not caused by the inability to reach a goal. Those failures are the result of not having a clear enough and meaningful enough goal. Know exactly where you intend to go, and you're much more likely to get there. Have a plan, follow it with persistence, and enjoy being where you sincerely choose to be. -- Ralph Marston Copyright ©2007 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. __________________ “Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ~Winnie the Pooh~

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08-03-2007, 07:35 AM	#3 (permalink)
carl11 trying to get it.. Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: California Posts: 286	Apt to be sure..one of the speakers at my meeting last night said he got tired of others making decisions for him as he was usually to out of it to make them himself.....and if course these decisions were by products of his destructive behaviors.....dui’s etc. and I agree...you have to be in the game to play it and make your own way...

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