Celebrate endings, for they precede new beginnings.   Jonathan Lockwood Huie (It's almost a given that today's quote has to be about endings or some sort of completion because it's the last day of 2012.)   Endings and beginnings go hand in hand. They have to.  You cannot have a beginning without something having ended.  Only once in history can I think of a beginning occurring without an ending preceding it.  Otherwise an ending comes before a beginning.  The older I get the more I can appreciate endings.  The better perspective I have on them.  And the older I get the more peace I have about celebrating some of them!  Some things must end and should end in order to make way for a new thing.  And whether we admit it or not, whether we know it or not, we all want new things to happen.  We really do.  Celebrations will look different depending on what the ending is.  Celebration doesn't always mean ...

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.   Jonathan Lockwood Huie What we think we live. If I wake up in the morning and think to myself, "Oh this day is going to suck for "xyz reason(s)" then I've already started my day thinking in a negative direction.  Chances are really good that even the simple things that day will be difficult because I have said they would be. When we think it will be hard it is.  Why?  Because when we set ourselves up for difficulty it's as if we have given our attitudes permission to stink. But on the flip side when we think it will be manageable, easy, accomplished, etc it is.  Why?  Because when we set ourselves up for success it's as if we have given our attitude permission to be optimistic. Life is this, it is as easy or hard as you think it is.