I’ve Got Character

What you will be tomorrow depends on the choices you make today.

Inspirational Courage

“Courage is being scared to death, and saddling up anyway.”

John Wayne (1907-1979)

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Contentment is a matter of perspective

I read this from the book Calm My Anxious Heart :

Ella’s perspective for contentment:  1)  Never allow yourself to complain about anything – not even the weather.  2)  Never picture yourself in any other circumstances or someplace else.  3)  Never compare your lot with another’s.  4)  Never allow yourself to wish this or that had been otherwise.  5)  Never dwell on tomorrow – remember that tomorrow is God’s, not ours. 

These things are so difficult in our society.  The typical conversation between people is one of complaining or grumbling about the weather, a teacher, a job, a child, a husband – the list could go on and on.  If you take these things out of a conversation, what do people talk about?  Pay attention to conversations going on around you the next couple of weeks.  You will be amazed at the topics.  Try very hard to stay positive and talk about only worthy things.  You will be amazed at how much better you feel and the impact you may have on others’ attitudes, as well. 

Also, the next time you look at what you don’t have or at what someone else has and you don’t, try thanking God for at least ten things you do have.  Once again, you will be amazed at the contentment you will feel in your own circumstances.  Focus on what you do have and not on what you don’t have. 

Finally, focus on today.  Make the best of today.  Do something to make a difference today.  Enjoy your job today.  Enjoy your children today.  Enjoy your husband or wife today.  Smile at someone today.  Do something for someone today.  Make the most of the day right now.  Don’t put it off until tomorrow. 

 

 

Inspirational Kindness

“Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.“

Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)

Inspirational Courage

“Courage doesn’t always roar.  Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow’”

Mary Anne Radmacher (1957 -) American Artist

Inspirational – Kindness

More than 1,000 people share an act of Kindness.

One woman’s kindness to a fellow Starbucks patron resulted in more than a thousand others spreading the holiday-season generosity in the northwest Washington town of Marysville.

A regular patron at the chain had paid for the person in line behind her a few times before, according to the Everett Herald.  But on Wednesday, her good deed set off a chain of 1,013 customers paying for the next person’s drink.

The spontaneous pay-it-forward run ended at 6:20 a.m. Friday, a store employee said.  The name of the iced-tea drinker who started it remains unknown at the store.

- Associated Press

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.  One never knows when a smile, an encouraging word, or a small act will touch someone…then to touch someone else…then to touch someone else…then to touch someone else…

What message is your clothing sending?

I am always amazed when I walk into a clothing store, and I see all kinds of sayings on kids’ and teenagers’ tshirts.  Why in the world would I want my eight year old daughter or my five year old daughter wearing a tshirt that says, it’s all about me, or my brother is annoying, or spoiled rotten?  I am trying to teach them the exact opposite.  I want them to be givers not takers and to respect their brother.  When all of this became tolerable, I don’t know.  I finally got tired of it.  I said enough is enough.  Our family will wear clothing that sends a different message, one of hope, kindness, and courage.  One that will change the way people think in a positive way.  One that will make people want to be the difference.  One that will make people think about reaching out and helping their neighbor.  One that will make them think about the choices they make each day…  That is when we started making our own shirts to wear.  It is amazing how one’s attitude changes when wearing something that challenges you to be better.  It is extraordinary how wearing a positive uplifting message on my shirt really makes me believe that I can and will make a difference!

Inspirational Tee Kindness

“Three things in human life are important.  The first is to be kind.  The second is to be kind.  And the third is to be kind.”  Henry James (1843-1916) American born British NovelistInspire people to use every moment as an opportunity to have positive thoughts, use powerful words, and act upon them to make a difference.  I’ve Got Character can help inspire yourself and people around you with our Kindness line of clothing which says No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Attitude of Gratitude

Having an attitude of gratitude may seem like such a cliché, but it is so true.  It is the perfect time of year to think about it, also.  Thanksgiving leading into Christmas and counting one’s blessings…  Lately though I haven’t had an attitude of gratitude.  I feel like I have been planning a sympathy party for myself and inviting whoever wants to feel sorry for me or themselves.  I have been focusing on what I don’t have and my problems instead of what I do have and how wonderfully blessed I have been.  The amazing thing about it all is that how I feel all has to do with my attitude.  I have been reading the book The Power of a Positive Mom and it has really made me stop and think.  Your level of contentment has to do with your heart, not what you have, what you have accomplished, or how many friends you have.  It is a matter of the heart and what you focus your thoughts on.    How do you view the world?  Do you see your circumstance through the eyes of faith, trusting God will see you through?  Or do you see your circumstances through eyes that only see what is wrong with the situation?  Ultimately, the quality of your life and mine depends on the way we view it.  Bible teacher Chuck Swindoll puts it this way in The Power of a Positive Mom:              The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.  Attitude, to me, is more important than facts.  It is more important than the past, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other other people think or say or do.  It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill.  It will make or break a company…a church…a home, or an individual.  The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.  We cannot change our past…we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.  We cannot change the inevitable.  The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.  I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it.  And so it is with you…we are in charge of our attitudes.

Inspirational Tee – KINDNESS

“Three things in human life are important.  The first is to be kind.  The second is to be kind.  And the third is to be kind.”  Henry James (1843-1916) American born British Novelist

Inspire people to use every moment as an opportunity to have positive thoughts, use powerful words, and act upon them to make a difference.  I’ve Got Character can help inspire yourself and people around you with our Kindness line of clothing which says No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

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