“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”

– Denis Waitley

Happiness is nothing more than a choice we make. Decide to embrace a life of love, grace, and gratitude. What else do you really need?

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

– Leo Buscaglia

We all have the ability, and I would argue the responsibility, to make our world a better place. Building better people builds that better world. Today you will have many opportunities to build better people by performing the simple compassionate acts of caring that are mentioned above.

Use your greatness to help others rediscover their own.

“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”

–Gandhi

Gandhi understood that collectively we all have the capacity to change the world for the better.

Individually, you have the capacity to solve that which needs solving in your own life, and change your own world for the better.

It’s all part of the greatness that lies within you. Rediscover your greatness!

“You are searching the world for treasure, but the real treasure is yourself.”

–Rumi, 13th century Persian poet

You need not look any further. You’ve found greatness. It is within you.

Rediscover the treasure that is you!

“Everyone has the power for greatness—not for fame, but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.”  

– Dr. Martin Luther King

Offer your unique talents and gifts in service to the world. Your greatness will transform those touched by your service. It will also transform you as well.

“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.”

–Wilma Rudolph

Wilma Rudolph overcame much adversity, including polio, to achieve her greatness. Wilma won three gold medals at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. Be inspired by her accomplishments!

“Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.”

– Napoleon Hill

Remember that greatness lies within you, unconditionally. The world needs you to live up to your greatness.

Today.

Right now.

Can we count on you?

“If you and I will inspire the people with whom we come in contact to a realization of the hidden treasure they possess, we can do far more than change people. We can literally transform them.”

– Dale Carnegie

From the classic book “How to Win Friends and Influence People”. Published in 1936…still relevant today.

“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”  

–Thomas Edison

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

– Nelson Mandela