By William Arthur Ward

Believe while others are doubting.

Plan while others are playing.

Study while others are sleeping.

Decide while others are delaying.

Prepare while others are daydreaming.

Begin while others are procrastinating.

Work while others are wishing.

Save while others are wasting.

Listen while others are talking.

Smile while others are frowning.

Commend while others are criticizing.

Persist while others are quitting.

Another Year Older

© By Gwendolyn C. Harper

A birthday is just another day,
young of mind, yet youthful looks go away.
Another year older,
the world seems a bit colder.
Yet my heart still burns,
and for love it forever yearns.
Another year older,
I grow even bolder.
Life is for us to learn from,
as calculated as a mathematical sum.
Another year older,
hurting blazes now just smolder.
Letting go of past rage and pain,
living life and feeling sane.
Another year older,
a tear on your shoulder.
Life has not been so bad,
my tear is of joy not because I’m sad.
Another day older,
more pages added to my folder.
I’m glad of whom I am today,
I would not have myself any other way.
So don’t mind that I write my own birthday rhyme,
I’ve lived through my life up till this time.
I think it is safe to say,
that things will go as planned His way.
He’s got more for me yet,
It’ll be even better I bet.
Another year older,
and I am in His debt.

1. Do everything without complaining

2. If you want to be listen to be a winner not a whinner

3. Dream more than it is practical to

4. Risk more than what is considered safe

5. Expect more than what is usually possible

6. Be perfect as God is

7. Let your reach exceed your grasp

8. If you are called to be a street sweeper, sweep with as much passion as Michaelangelo painting his masterpiece

9. The quality of a man’s life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence therefore be committed to excel.
10. Genius is the infinite capacity for pain and details

11. Small things don’t usually get the attention they deserved

12. Put principles into practise with great effort and diligence

13. Do more than what is required

14. Excellence is not an act but the result of habit

Philippians 2:14- Do everything without complaining or arguing so that you may become blameless and pure children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe