Leslie Allen

This showed up in my email this morning....inspired me to post Present effects are due to karmic causes from the past. However, future effects arise from the causes we make in the present. It is always the present that counts. It is what we do in the present moment that decides our future; our past causes do not govern our future as well. - Daisaku Ikeda.

Moving forward....

Next week I am sharing my story on how Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) showed me the power of choice. We will also discuss potential changes to the legislation and how to access MAID in Alberta. https://calgarylifelonglearners.ca/event-4120297

I would rather be a hot mess of bold action, a make it happen learn on the fly kind of person, than a perfectly organized coward. Brendon Burchard

If we want something new in our lives, a change, for things to be different, we need to choose to step into discomfort. In choosing comfort things only stay the same. What are you willing to get uncomfortable about?

Ahhhh....Valentine's Day A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever Dave Matthews Band

The question I asked my kids this weekend: At this moment, where you are right now, what do you absolutely know you need to do (or die trying) before you leave this earth. What is essential? Something to ponder....

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay. Dave Mathews

To progress is always to begin again. Tullian Tchividjian

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. Victor Frankl

We aren’t put on this earth to be useless, we are all put here for a reason. Some die young, some don’t. People are jerks, life’s short. Dogs bark and cats meow. We judge others on our differences, we don’t judge them on their accomplishments. So do that, judge them on their accomplishments, it’ll go a long way. Naomi Wong