He who can change his mind every day and think the new about everything every day, will always be well; he will always have happiness; he will always be free; his life will always be interesting; he will constantly move forward into the larger, the richer and the better; and whatever is needed for his welfare today, of that he shall surely have abundance.
New Year's Day is right around the corner! As 2014 fades into the background, it’s the perfect time to let go of the past, and plan for your most fabulous future.
Your life has unique meaning and the potential for much more meaning. Stay true to the real, living, authentic person you are, and fulfill that potential.
You know what feels right for you and what feels wrong. Pay attention to that feeling, and remind yourself to stick with what’s right.
Enjoy and explore, learn and love, create, support and empower all that is important to you. You have meaningful work to do, and a beautiful vision to express, and today is your opportunity to do it.
Don’t let yourself get too conceited or too dismayed by what others think or say about you. Do what you know is good and right, and in line with your purpose, and all will work out for the best.
Live true to your deeply felt purpose. And you will truly live well.
Video footage has emerged of the US President and First Lady, Michelle Obama, helping out earlier this month in sorting out toys for a charity initiative to provide gifts to less fortunate children.
The couple were helping to sort items in the ‘girls’ and ‘boys’ bins for the US Marine Corp’s annual Toys for Tots program in early December.
Michelle Obama has helped out with the program on several years previously, but this was the President’s first time. The event took place at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C.
In a move that will be welcomed by those frustrated by the gender stereotyping of children’s toys – and probably attacked by some of the President’s more rightwing critics – the President didn’t appear too concerned about sorting the presents along strictly tradition boy-girl lines, pointing out that some girls like playing with toys normally associated with boys.
The President – a father to two daughters – put science and sports-related toys in the girls bin. When he then placed a basketball in the bin, he said; ‘I just wanna make sure some girls play some ball.’
He then comes across a T-Ball set, which he also puts in the girls bin: ‘T-Ball? Girls like T-Ball … I’m just trying to break down these gender stereotypes.’
Tots for Toys has been delivering gifts to children since the 1940s, since which time is has given out over 469million toys.
Click here for more information about the program, and watch video of the President below.
Be true to your ideals no matter what may happen now.
Then things will take a turn and the very things you wanted to happen will happen.
The ideal has a positive drawing power towards the higher, the greater, and the superior. Whoever gives his attention constantly to the ideal, therefore, will steadily rise in the scale.
Take things as they are today and proceed at once to make them better.
Expect every change to lead you to something better and it will. As your faith is so shall it be.
To be human is not to be weak. To be human is to be all that there is in man, and the greatness that is contained in the whole of man is marvelous indeed.
Michael Sam, the first openly gay player to be drafted in the NFL, talked about coming out in a documentary which premiered Saturday.
Cabler OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network on Saturday premiered Michael Sam, a 90-minute film on Sam's life. Following the premiere, Sam sat down with Oprah Winfrey for a one-on-one interview.
The 24-year-old Sam, the SEC defensive player of the year in 2013, was cut by the St. Louis Rams before the start of the season. He then joined the Cowboys' 10-man practice squad, where he stayed for seven weeks before being let go.
Despite the setbacks, Sam said that coming out was the right thing to do.
“It didn't need to be public,” Sam said. “Why do gay people have to do it?”
“I made the right choice to come out,” he added.
Television cameras captured the moment Sam learned he had been drafted by the Rams. He kissed and hugged his boyfriend. The pair smashed celebratory cake in each other's faces.
“Everyone made a big deal out of it,” Sam said of the “infamous kiss.” “It's just a kiss. Did you forget that I was gay? Should I be kissing a woman instead?”
