You can look ahead, you can look behind, what is written cannot be changed.

We cannot change the color of our skin. What we can change is how we feel about it.

We cannot change a pain-filled past. What we can do is change how it will affect us.

We cannot change how other may feel about who we are and where we've been. What we can change is how we see it, how we use it and how others use it to our benefit or detriment.

The past has already been written, but we have the power to write the future, based on who we are and what we do now. Only we can write a future based on self-support and respect. We can write a future full of strength, peace, wealth and love.

All we have to do is what is right now.

I Am choosing my future by what I do now.

Deal with yourself as an individual worthy of respect and make everyone deal with you the same way.

Focused Vision

Many of us live day to day without a real sense of purpose. We know we want more out of life, but we can't seem to put a finger on exactly what it is. We believe our fate is due to a lack of career, money or the freedom to do what we want.

Actually, what we may be longing for is a personal mission. When you have a mission,you have a core passion that gives you vision. With the vision of your mission, you move gracefully through your goals. When you have a mission, you wholeheartedly embrace a task and you remain focused until the task is done. When you have a mission, you feel valued, worthy and respectable. You manage to keep your head up and others notice you.

What is your mission? Is it teaching, healing, painting, driving? Perhaps it is building snowmen, counting pea pods or keeping others on their mission.

Respect your life enough to pursue a meaningful mission.

Respect yourself enough to give yourself something to do.

I Am mission-minded and focused on a goal.