Coffee Thoughts \ Happy New Year

May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher


This is my wish for all of you for the New Year. Happy 2013

Coffee Thoughts \ Don't Settle For Less

“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. ” ― Maureen Dowd

Don’t let fear lead. When you believe that you can never have love or abundance then you have sealed your fate. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Enjoy The Holiday

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
-- Bertrand Russell

Don’t take yourself or your work too seriously, it’s a good way to loose the joy of life.

Coffee Thoughts \ Be In The Moment

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.” ― Fulton Oursler

The present is all we have and in the moment you have a chance to make new choices. You are a work-in-progress, don’t give up, enjoy the process. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Head & Heart

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.” ― Horace Walpole

The merging of head and heart makes for the best life and the greatest intelligence. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Keep Your Spirit Alive

“The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.” ― Henry David Thoreau

Don’t let your spirit die; give it freedom and a voice. Don’t give in to fear, limitations and the judgments of others. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Perfect Order

“Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.” ― Valery Satterwhite“

When you can accept what you can’t change, you see the moment differently. New options and opportunities present themselves. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Know Your Friends

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” -- Alice Walker

Know who your friends are and those are the people you bring close to you. Everyone else should be looked at with limits and boundaries.

Coffee Thoughts \ Look Within

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you want from life cultivate within yourself. When you become what you want you will have it wherever you go. 

Coffee Thoughts \ What Do You See?

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. -- Henry David Thoreau

Do you see yourself and the world around you, or are you just looking at the exterior and accepting the image it offers. Go deeper and surprise yourself.

Coffee Thoughts \ Listen

The less you talk, the more you're listened to. --  Abigail Van Buren

Listening is a lost art. When you listen you learn and others love you.  It’s a win win choice.

Coffee Thoughts \ No One Can Hurt You

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” -- ― Mahatma Gandhi

If you own who you are, including all your mistakes and idiosyncrasies, then there is no way anyone can get to you. Be who you  are with pride.  

Coffee Thoughts \ Strength Is Passion

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.” ― Mark Twain

When you have the soul and the passion for what you want, no one can stop you.

Coffee Thoughts \ A Balanced Life

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. --Maya Angelou

A great life has balance, it includes the good and the bad, the joy and the happiness. So embrace it all. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Make Mistakes

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

The need to be perfect is the most limiting and self-sabotaging attitude we can embrace. Just get the job done. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Greatness Through Love

“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.” -- ― Shmuley Boteach

When you overcome your fears and personal taste because of love, you experience life in all its possibilities and greatness. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Embrace Change

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

Change is essential to your survival. Instead of fearing it, embrace it and grow. 

Coffee Thoughts \ You're A Genius

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” --― Albert Einstein

Find the right environment for your talents. When you get validation and support from the world around you then it’s easy to blossom. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Laughter Is Important

“I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.” ― Maya Angelou

When you can’t laugh you have no faith in yourself and the world and a soul without faith is a miserable one indeed. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Success Is Lonely

 “The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.” ― Bette Midler

So many people sabotage their success because the people in their lives feel left out, diminished or threatened by it. Don’t hold yourself back because of other people’s fear, make them have to stretch to keep up with you.  

Coffee Thoughts \ Get The Job Done

“I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.” ― Madonna

Don’t let the opinions of others stop you; do what needs to be done.

Coffee Thoughts \ A Good Dinner

 “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.” ― Oscar Wilde

When one is content it is easy to overlook problems. Remember that when you run a business or need to influence others. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Laughter

“You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.” ― Michael Pritchard

There is nothing that will keep you younger than laughter. Life is filled with humor if you can see it – don’t be afraid to start with yourself. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Expect Something

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” ― Alexander Pope

It’s important to ask, expect, even demand from life what you want. If you never take a risk for a dream chances are it won’t happen. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Embrace Mistakes

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” ― Thomas A. Edison

Embrace mistakes and you’ll learn, grow and most importantly enjoy your life. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Curiosity

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” ― Albert Einstein

Be like Einstein, throw yourself into life and allow your curiosity to lead you to new lands and discoveries – that’s how you reveal your own genius. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Keep An Open Mind

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” ― G.K. Chesterton

When you decide ahead of time what the truth is, then you will select the facts to support it and confirm your beliefs. It takes courage to keep an open mind. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Travel

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

Travel changes how you think about yourself and the world. When you’re out of your comfort zone you see everything differently.