Live Life Now!

“If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man… 

Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living right now.”

~The Alchemist

Calm, Cool, and Collected...

F E A R...

"No passion 

so effectually robs the mind 

of all its powers

of acting and reasoning 

as fear."

~Edmund Burke

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Fear is just an emotion 

that is designed to protect us 

from a perceived threat, 

in order to help us 

make the best decisions 

to preserve our life and safety.

Overcoming fears 

that keep us from living our life are 

achievable goals.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

Read more about overcoming fears that interfere with life, here:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/fear

Express Yourself!

"If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, 

that single spark of divinity that sets you off 

and makes you different from every other living creature."
~Bruce Barton

Your character describes who you are to others...

“Winning is a habit.  Watch your thoughts, they become your beliefs.  Watch your beliefs, they become your words.  Watch your words, they become your actions.  Watch your actions, they become your habits.  Watch your habits, they become your character.” 

~Vince Lombardi

The Early Years-

Lombardi was born in Brooklyn to Enrico "Harry" Lombardi and Matilda "Mattie" Izzo on June 11, 1913.  Harry's mother and father, Vincenzo and Michelina emigrated from Salerno, Italy. Mattie's father and mother, Anthony and Loretta, emigrated from an area several miles east of Salerno. Henry had three siblings and Matilda had twelve siblings. Vince would be the oldest of five children, Madeleine, Harold, Claire, and Joe. The entire Lombardi and Izzo clan settled in Sheepshead Bay.

Matilda's father, Anthony, opened up a barber shop in Sheepshead Bay prior to the turn of the century. At about the time of Lombardi's birth, Harry, and his brother, Eddie, opened a butcher shop in the Meatpacking District. Throughout the Great Depression, Harry's shop did well and his family prospered.  Lombardi grew up in an ethnically diverse, middle-class neighborhood. 

 To read more about this inspiring man, please visit:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Lombardi

It's as simple as... 1, 2, 3 !

DON’T THINK, JUST DO IT!

“To change one’s life: 

1. Start immediately. 

2. Do it flamboyantly. 

3. No exceptions.” 

~ William James

William James (1842-01-11 – 1910-08-26) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, the psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophy of pragmatism.  READ MORE:  http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_James

 Be not afraid of life. 

Believe that life is worth living,

 and your belief will help create the fact. 

~William James

Contribute ...to the World!

Whatever it is you "do", do it... but better yet, 
share it with others!     

LISTENING       SINGING        BUILDING        CREATING         CLEANING  

              delivering                   SHOPPING         gardening

        COOKING       DRAWING               ASSISTING                TALKING       ANIMAL CARE

HELPING       WRITING      CARE GIVING        VOLUNTEERING          INSPIRING      WALKING   

Mentoring      STORY TELLING    teaching  

       ~Kim Franklin-Magana 

"If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature."
~Bruce Barton

Be who you really are!

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; 
they try to have more things, or more money, 
in order to do more of what they want, 

so they will be happier. 

The way it actually works is the reverse. 
You must first be who you really are, 
then do what you need to do, 
in order to have what you want.

~Margaret Young

Knowledge vs. Wisdom

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom.  
One helps you make a living; 
the other helps you make a life.

~Sandra Carey

"To acquire knowledge, 
one must study; 
but to acquire wisdom, 
one must observe."
~ Marilyn vos Savant

"Common sense in an uncommon degree, 
is what the world calls wisdom."
~ Samuel Coleridge

The Best of All Things...

Water is the best of all things.

PINDAR (C. 522-C. 438 B.C.), Olympian Odes

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

ISAAC ASIMOV, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988