"If you don't control your mind, someone else will."

In line with yesterdays lesson. Your mind is hugely powerful, you need to have control of it, fill it with positive energy and thoughts and it becomes such a powerful weapon, fill it with negative thoughts and hate and it becomes very destructive.

"When it rains look for rainbows. When it's dark, look for stars."

Always look on the bright side, if you look for the positives and you look for the good, you will naturally attract the same. Call it karma or whatever else but positive breeds positive!

"Make a list of things that make you happy. Make a list of the things you do every day. Compare the lists. Adjust accordingly".

Its vital that we think about what makes us happy and then reconcile this with real life so that we can make changes that will make us happier!

"It's not the future you are afraid of. It's the fear of the past repeating itself that haunts you."

Learn from your mistakes, treat them and life lessons - don't make them again but don't allow them to take away your tomorrow.

"You often feel tire, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you".

This comes back to finding the "why" in you. What is your passion! Don't give up on it it is never too late.

Wonderful life lesson from an old friend. Deirdre has taught her gets that you cannot receive something if your had is closed.... so you first have to "give", this opens the fingers of the hand making it able to receive!

We often stray from the essence of who we really are over time because we compromise our beliefs to fit in. We don't say "no" for fear of being rejected or not fitting in, but by doing this we slowly move away from who we really are and what we really stand for.

Its okay to say no, and stand firm, but you can only do that if you "know" who you really are.

Isn't it ironic how we can give the best advice to all of our friends, yet we cannot "listen or hear" our own advice?

The primary reason for this is when the advice is not directed at ourselves, it is not personal, so it is way easier to remove emotion and focus on the real issue. Emotion often clouds our judgement or our perspective because our feelings are so involved.

Its good advice to sometimes take your own advice.

There is no other day in the year better than 11 November to express your gratitude. 11 November is Armistice Day, or Poppy Day. As you may know the poppy became symbolic of the loss during WW1. They were immortalized in John McCrae's famous poem "In Flanders Fields".

After the war the poppy became the symbol of those who were lost in the war and the 11 November became the day of remembrance to express our gratitude to those who gave so much.

Once you have a "why" or a purpose, everything becomes so much clearer and easier to shoot for. This is simply because you are following your passion, passion is a motivator like no other.