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I am happy and content because I think I am.
     ~Alain-Rene Lesage

Change your thoughts, and you change your world.
     ~Norman Vincent Peale

Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
     ~Grandma Moses

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
     ~ Charles F. Kettering

It is not the cards you are dealt but what you do with them that counts.
     ~Anonymous

If you don't have the best of everything, make the best of everything you have.
     ~Erik Russell—College Football Coach

What we think, we become.
     ~Buddha

They can because they think they can.
     ~Virgil—Roman PoetRoman poet

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
     ~Anonymous

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
     ~George W. Crane

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
     ~Morris West

Keep your face in the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.
     ~Helen Keller

Knock the "t" off the "can't.
     ~George Reeves

It may be that those who do most, dream most.
     ~Stephen Leacock

If you can dream it, you can do it.
     ~Walt Disney

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
     ~Napoleon Hill

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!  Live the live you’ve imagined.
     ~Henry David Thoreau

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
     ~Anatole France

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
     ~Carl Sandburg

We need men who can dream of things that never were.
     ~John F. Kennedy

A dream is a wish your heart makes.
     ~Walt Disney—Sleeping Beauty

When you achieve one dream, dream another.
     ~Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
     ~Paulo Coelho

Live your best life. Dream big. Live fully.
     ~Oprah Winfrey

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it: Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
     ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may grow.
     ~Louise Driscoll

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream; you've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
     ~Diana Ross

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
     ~Pamela Vault Starr

If you’re chasing your dream right now you ain’t running fast enough! Run harder! 4 real ain’t nobody gonna give it to you. Let's get it !!!!
      ~Sean “Diddy” Combs quote from Twitter

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-Henry Ford

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping-stones out of stumbling blocks.
-Jack Penn

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-Vince Lombardi

Knock the "t" off the "can't."
-George Reeves

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-Albert Einstein

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
-Lance Armstrong

It's always too early to quit.
-Norman Vincent Peale

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
-Babe Ruth

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
-Julie Andrews

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-Beverly Sills

I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
-Michael Jordan

Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.
-Oprah Winfrey

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
-Winston Churchill

Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
-Henry Ford

Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly.
-Robert F. Kennedy

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
~Milton Berle

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
~Carl Sandburg

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
~Charles F. Kettering

Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.
~Oprah Winfrey

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
~Albert Einstein

It may be that those who do most, dream most.
~Stephen Leacock

“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
~Michael Jordan

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
~Chinese Proverb

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!  Live the life you’ve imagined.”
~Henry David Thoreau

Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.
~John Wayne

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
~Anatole France

Do or do not. There is no try.
~Yoda, ‘The Empire Strikes Back’

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up.
~Vince Lombardi

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
~ Harvey Mackay

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
~Jack Penn

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
                        ~Walt Disney

This is my all-time favorite quote.  Walt Disney is a great example of an everyday, ordinary person, who achieved his grand dreams and still leaves his legacy today.   If you ever receive an email from me, my signature always ends with this quote–because I live by it.  We all have grand dreams just like Walt, but the first step to achieving your dreams is believing in yourself.  You truly can do anything that you dream of. 

If you’re interested in reading more about Walt Disney and how he went from ordinary to extraordinary, you should check out the book, How to Be Like Walt:  Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life, by Pat Williams. 

This book actually inspired me to follow my own dreams and take the big leap into starting a business.  We’ll see where it takes me!  This was a great book, with just the right amount of details on Walt’s life and vision to inspire a dreamer to follow in his footsteps.  The book was sprinkled with many valuable lessons like, Lesson 1: Live the Adventure, and Lesson 3: Dare to Do the Impossible.  The combination of lessons followed by stories of Walt using these lessons in his life, made it engaging, easy-to-follow and very inspiring.  Although this book is a biography, I feel that it is far more.  It’s an inspirational and motivational book that makes you feel like you can do anything that your heart desires.

“Mile by mile, it’s a trial.  Yard by yard, it’s hard.  Inch by inch, it’s a cinch.”
                        ~Anonymous

Sometimes we have grand dreams that seem so unattainable, that we wonder why we should even bother.  Good news!  You can achieve that dream.  All you have to do is break it down– inch by inch.

Your dream is that mighty mile.  Before you get too overwhelmed, take five minutes to sit down and map out your plan.  Map out the steps that you need to take in order to achieve your dream.  These steps are your goals.  To avoid getting too overloaded, take on one goal at a time.  When you accomplish your goal, check it off your list and start working on your next goal. 
Soon you’ll see that achieving your dream was easier than you thought.

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~George Eliot

Recently, I watched one of Oprah’s episodes that featured Louise Hay, Martha Beck and Cheryl Richardson. Quite a few topics on the show really resonated with me. Instead of discussing them all now, I’ll focus on my favorite–the story of Louise Hay.

At age 50, Louise Hay wrote and published her first book, Heal Your Body.  She continued to teach workshops, but she realized “if I could put this workshop on paper, I could help many more people.”  So she took six months to write the book, You Can Heal Your Life, and then in 1984, started the publishing company, Hay House, to self-publish her book.  Her book quickly became an international best-seller and today, Hay House is a prosperous publishing company that has sold millions of books by over 130 well-known authors.

This is an inspiring success story for woman over 50, or anyone else that feels it’s too late to fulfill their dreams. It’s never too late! There are thousands of success stories that started later on in life. What will your success story be?