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A Few Veggies….

Deborah LeBlanc

Sorry this blog is late, everyone. I’ve been having a problem with Blogger all day….

For years, we’ve been told that adding vegetables to our daily diet helps promote physical health. I was reminded of that last night when I glanced over at the television set and saw a commercial with dancing carrots and broccoli. It reminded me of my elementary school days, when I had to learn the essential food groups. Remember that funky little pyramid? Of course the commercial made me feel guilty because I was eating a Twix bar at the time, but it also made me think . . . if vegetables help promote physical health, what helps to promote a strong mental attitude? By that I mean, what can we ‘feed’ ourselves on a regular basis that would help us overcome the obstacles we face each day, especially in the writing biz?

The question led me to research some of the ‘greats’ in history, as well as some of today’s ‘stars,’ to see if they shared some kind of common mental diet that helped them reach such remarkable heights.

The results of that research? They do share a commonality, and its pyramid consists of: Dream, Plan, and Do.

Here’s a little of what I found in each category . . . .

DREAM

“Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.”
—Tom Clancy…..

“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”
—Albert Einstein…

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
—Pablo Picasso—

“An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality.”
—Richard Bach—

“Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
—Mark Twain—

PLAN

“Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson—

“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll probably end up somewhere else.”
—Lewis Carroll—

“Never confuse motion with action.”
—Ernest Hemingway—

“In the long run men hit only what they aim at.”
—Henry David Thoreau—

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.”
—Abraham Lincoln—

DO

“I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever.
This is the time.
This is the place.
I AM the person.”
—Og Mandino—

“Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.”
—Robert Lewis Stevenson—

“Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
—Saint Francis of Assisi—

“It is the job that’s never started that takes the longest to finish.”
—J.R.R. Tolkien—

“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes—

“Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—

“Nobody ever drowns by falling in the water. They drown by staying there.”
—Zig Zigler—

Happy eating everyone!

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