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January 1, 2014 · 11:03 AM

Let 2014 be a Year to Inspire

Happy New Year!

Today we celebrate and welcome a new year. What a wonderful opportunity today provides for us to take stock of all the lessons learned from 2013, and pause, reflect and prepare to make a difference in 2014.

Regardless of the job we report to each day, each of us has the awesome power to CHOOSE to make a difference in our own lives and the lives of those around us. We will always experience hills to climb and obstacles to work through ( mentally and physically)…this is life. However, it is amazing what can happen to a person’s own mental attitude and perspective when each day begins thinking of others. Sometimes the transition is slow and I have personally experienced an immediate change, but when we make a conscious choice to be the difference in life, our lens in which we see the world and the people in it, changes.

I encourage everyone to join the Unlock the Teacher team …pause, reflect and make a concerted effort to really be “present” each day in 2014 and really live life and maximize your potential!

For all of our educator friends, we wish you all the strength and courage needed to inspire those placed within your care each and every day…YOU make a difference!

May we continue to seek knowledge in all things-

Denise

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December 11, 2013 · 4:10 PM

Words are POWERFUL…Motivational Quotes to Inspire

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Motivational Quotes to Lift Up and Inspire this Holiday Season

Words are POWERFUL…what words fill your inner conversation and what words do you use for those around you?

Are you a beacon?

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the Gift.”
Steve Prefontaine

“… run with patience the race that is set before us …”
Heb. 12:1-3

“Pain is temporary; Pride lasts forever.”~ Unknown

“Respect the distance or the distance won’t respect you! It will eat you up, spit you out and make you beg for mercy” – Unknown

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge

“Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don’t so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head.” – Joe Henderson

“It’s at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.” – Emil Zatopek

Now bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.” – Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.” – Emil Zatopek

“To be great, one does not have to be mad, but definitely it helps.” – Percy Cerutty

“Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medalist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.” – George Sheehan

“A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.” – Ken Doherty

“Those who say it can’t be done should not interrupt the ones doing it”
— From Carol Ann

My advice…be an action verb, choose to live and share the gifts you have been given this holiday season. Laugh as often as possible and truly look into the eyes of those around you and smile that smile that says, “I see you and I care!”

May we continue to seek knowledge in all things~

Denise

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