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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Favorites

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Favorites

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Quotes of the Week from Me: “Things will be uncertain.” “Always consider the slightly riskier option.” “What will you hope you had done 20 years from now? 30? 40?” Quotes of the Week from Others: “Exuding kindness is not for reciprocity, but character.” – Unknown “Never forget it takes very little to live a fulfilled and happy life.” – Marcus Aurelius “And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.” Khaled Hosseini…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: A Helpful List

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: A Helpful List

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Quotes of the Week from Me: “All countryside is beautiful.” “Trust your ability to overcome obstacles.” “What a freaking week, glad there’s a new one starting today.” Quotes of the Week from Others: “The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops.” – Winnie the Pooh “Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.” – Benjamin Franklin “Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.” – Philander Johnson Quick Optimism: Celebrate something. Alone, with others. Go and celebrate….

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: 2024 Olympics

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: 2024 Olympics

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Quotes of the Week from Me: “When a door opens, you still choose whether or not you walk in it.” “Every day is an opportunity.” “Do your best to make others feel heard.” Quotes of the Week from Others: “The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure.” – Tibetan Proverb “Advertising can only inform about the product. Thereafter, it’s the success of the product alone.” – Karsanbhai Khodidas Patel I…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: The Dog in the Window

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: The Dog in the Window

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Quotes of the Week from Me: “Find things that complement your life, not ones that consume it.” “I like to find some quiet.” “Put love at the core of all you do.” Quotes of the Week from Others: “A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.” – Daisaku Ikeda “If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.” – Aristotle “No one can make you feel…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Toothpaste in the Yard

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Toothpaste in the Yard

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Quotes of the Week from Me: “Why is there toothpaste in the backyard?” – I think this will contribute to my next children’s book “Sports are funny – the harder you work, the more you smile.” – time to binge some olympics “This walk turned into a sprint overnight.” Quotes of the Week from Others: “If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.” – Rabindranath Tagore “Nothing in this world can take the place…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Embracing Mistakes

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Embracing Mistakes

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Quotes of the Week from Me: “Keep showing up. People remember your effort, but more so your presence.” If we all ate the exact same, followed the same workout program, and lived every single day identically, we would still look physically and feel emotionally different than one another.” “Think hard, less.” I need this. Quotes of the Week from Others: “You can’t add days to your life but you can add life to your days.” – Unknown “Soul would have…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: How far, how long?

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: How far, how long?

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Quotes of the Week from Me: “Make it a habit to get outside daily. Don’t forget the daily part.” “Encourage children to solve their own problems and watch their perception of their own capability change.” “People learn a lot from watching you. Act accordingly. Lead by example.” Quotes of the Week from Others: “When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.” – C.S. Lewis “You…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Familiar Joy

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Familiar Joy

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Quotes of the Week from Me: “I’m just glad we have the morning.” “We need stress, we need to overcome it, again and again.” “Who are you?” Quotes of the Week from Others: “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?” – George Eliot “Your past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.” – Unknown “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Favorite Day

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Favorite Day

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Quotes of the Week from Me: “In the valley of dreams, the peaks hide the sun.” “Practice like you have never won.” “The ease of a penalty kick is earned by overcoming the hardship of getting tackled.” I couldn’t figure out how to weave in as much symbolism as I wanted in this quote, so I kept it simple. What I really wanted to touch on was how different goals can look from each other. Some goals are a layup…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Learning

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Learning

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Quotes of the Week from Me: “Embrace constructive criticism. It is one way of contributing to your future success.” “We made it another week. I made it another week. You made it another week. Try to make it to another week.” “You will never learn, or master, every skill. Surround yourself with the best people you can find.” I’ve heard people say, “Surround yourself with the right people.” I don’t think that is the best phrasing. What is the right…

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