There usually is a solution to a problem.......

Song 'There Is No Solution' by Sum 41:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7vuDEU1iu0

Favorite from December 2015

Learn to solve your problems.

"Successful people are simply people who learn to solve their problems ... they are not people without problems."
- Unknown

Conceited or confident?

From the song 'Don't Need You To Tell Me I'm Pretty' by Samantha Mumba:

I don't need you to
Tell me I'm pretty to make me feel beautiful,
I don't need you to
Give me your strength to make me feel I'm strong.
I got all of this strength that I need here
inside my own two hands,
All that I want is your love and respect for who I am,
What I really need
Comes from deep inside of me.

Don't need you to tell me I'm pretty to make me feel beautiful,
Don't need you to make me strong 'cause I'm strong all on my own,
Doesn't come from outside
This beauty I know,
Comes from inside my soul.

Don't need you to tell me I'm pretty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuCIcIQmBgU

Favorite from November 2015

Confidence grows when we attempt and complete difficult tasks or survive difficult experiences.

"There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake."
- Orison Swett Marden

From the song 'Respect Yourself' by Huey Lewis & The News:

If you disrespect everybody
That you run into
How in the world do you think
Anybody's supposed to respect you?

If you don't give a heck
About the man with the Bible in his hand
Just get out the way
And let the gentleman do his thing

You're the kind of Know-it-all
Want everything your way
Take the sheet off your face, boy
It's a brand new day

Respect yourself, respect yourself
If you don't respect yourself
Ain't nobody gonna give a good cahoot
Respect yourself, respect yourself

If you're walking 'round thinking
That the world owes you something
'Cause you're young
You goin' out the world backwards
Like your day when you first come here

You keep on talking 'bout the President
You won't stop at pollution, no
Put your hand on your mouth when you cough
That'll help the solution

Oh, you cuss around women
For you don't even know their names, no
And you're dumb enough to think
That'll make you a big old man, oh

Respect yourself, ah yeah
You ought to respect yourself, yeah
If you don't respect yourself
Ain't nobody gonna give a good cahoot
Respect yourself, respect yourself, yeah
Respect yourself, yeah, respect yourself

What's happening to the world, yeah
Nobody respects themselves
You ought to respect your name
You ought to respect yourself, respect yourself
Respect yourself, respect yourself 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP11dikMicE

Favorite from October 2015

To receive respect, you should give respect (show respect for others).

"Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way."
- Barbara Bush

Do you consider yourself to be "emotionally tough"?

"I'm not the type to get my heart broken,
I'm not the type to get upset and cry,
'Cause I never leave my heart open,
Never hurts me to say goodbye.
Relationships don't get deep to me,
Never got the whole in love thing,
And someone can say they love me truly,
But at the time it didn't mean a thing."
- From the song 'Cry' by Rihanna

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnMP1oqPTto

Favorite from September 2015

It is how you react to what happens to you that matters!

"We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us — how we can take it, what we do with it — and that is what really counts in the end."
- Joseph Fort Newton

From the song 'Survivor' by Destiny's Child:

After all of the darkness and sadness
Soon comes happiness,
If I surround my self with positive things
I'll gain prosperity.

I'm a survivor,
I'm not gon' give up,
I'm not gon' stop,
I'm gon' work harder.
I'm a survivor,
I'm gonna make it,
I will survive,
Keep on survivin'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki97oF8LBFE

The incredible stories of the women from Push Girls who suffered setbacks:
http://celebrityscribe.com/2012/07/push-girls-the-best-in-reality-tv/

Favorite from August 2015

"The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition."
- Gustav Stresemann

Resisting temptation is possible......

"Temptation, temptation, temptation
I can't resist"
- From the song 'Temptation' by Diana Krall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J9bwNLRiJU

Favorite from July 2015

Life is full of temptation. Temptation can cause us to make inappropriate choices or take things in excess, i.e. throw moderation out of the window.

"Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't."
- Steve Maraboli

From the song 'Don't Stop' by Fleetwood Mac:

If you wake up and don't want to smile,
If it takes just a little while,
Open your eyes and look at the day,
You'll see things in a different way.
Don't stop, thinking about tomorrow,
Don't stop, it'll soon be here,
It'll be, better than before,
Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone.
Why not think about times to come,
And not about the things that you've done,
If your life was bad to you,
Just think what tomorrow will do.
Don't stop, thinking about tomorrow,
Don't stop, it'll soon be here,
It'll be, better than before,
Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SybgWaQy7_c

You are what you think!

"Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts."
- Holy Bible, Proverbs 4:23 (Good News Translation)

"I went to church for years and years and years and nobody ever told me that my thoughts had anything to do with my life. I had no idea that I could think my own thoughts or choose my own thoughts. I had no idea that if I was thinking something that was not correct, I didn't have to keep thinking it."
- Joyce Meyer, What's Been On Your Mind Lately
http://youtu.be/_1GAqdHOUhA

Look out for false friends.....

From the song 'Who The Cap Fit' by Bob Marley

Man to man is so unjust, children,
Ya don't know who to trust.
Your worst enemy could be your best friend,
And your best friend your worse enemy.

Some will eat and drink with you,
Then behind them su-su 'pon you.
Only your friend know your secrets,
So only he could reveal it.
And who the cap fit, let them wear it!

https://youtu.be/zOMMWeExwh4

Favorite from May 2015

Your environment shapes you....

"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them."
- W. Clement Stone

What do you see? Do you see the true colors?

From the song 'True Colors' by Phil Collins:

I see your true colors
Shining through,
I see your true colors
And that's why I love you,
So don't be afraid to let them show,
Your true colors,
True colors
Are beautiful like a rainbow.

http://youtu.be/2FMtxACKlYM

Example of different viewpoints using a house for sale in Ocala, FL

Each photo is different and shows different details. Could you tell from (2) in the picture how long the garage is and how many garages/carports there are?
http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/491-SE-41st-St_Ocala_FL_34480_M67754-38498

Favorite from April 2015

Our background, beliefs, attitudes and values color our view of the world.....

"There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values." 
- David G. Myers, Social Psychology