Imagine a Rainbow

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will." - George Bernard Shaw

Many of us grew up with stories of about a pot-of-gold at the end of a rainbow. We would search for the beauty of a departing rain storm hoping that the rainbow would touch us. We never found that pot-of-gold for we could never find the end of the rainbow.

As we grew older, we gave up imagining it ever existed.

Now you may think I'm going to say there actually is gold at the end of a rainbow. You are hoping I will proclaim that all we have to do is chase down the rainbow. It will be there we find our dreams will be fulfilled.

Happiness and success will be ours if only we locate it.

The reality is that a rainbow is simply rays of the Sun bouncing off water droplets in the sky. There is no physical pot that contains gold sitting at the ends of its arc. The rainbow is not where we will find all of our dreams and hopes realized.

Yet, it is in the beauty of a rainbow we can let our imagination flourish.

The rainbow is a reminder that things are possible in our lives. It allows us to imagine that a pot-of-gold in the form of happiness, success and greater good exists. Do not let your imagination or dreaming disappear with the fading rainbow.

Embrace the idea of imagining better things in your life.

Let the imagination of that rainbow be a powerful motivator in your life. Let the rainbow be your reminder to imagine more for your life. Continue to seek out the "end of the rainbow" for those things you dream about.

Stay inspired my friends.

Good Deed Indeed

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.” - Plato

You have an impact on the lives of others simply by your good actions.

Those actions might be in holding a door open. It might be in helping someone carry packages to their car. It might be simply greeting them with a smile.

Your actions are seen by others. You will be unaware that many of them noticed, but they did. As you pass through your day, others will take note and impressions will be made.

You notice others in the same fashion, influencing your own life; correct?

So when you do good things, when you set a good example, you are helping other people change their lives for the better.

Stay inspired my friends!

Home, It Will All Be Clear

"Seek home for rest, for home is best." ~ Thomas Tusser

Today is the day I am back home.
Today is the day I come off the road for a while.
Today is the day everything becomes clear once again.

Today is the day every one should come home.

Enjoy those moments with family and friends even though you have a busy life.

And stay inspired my friends.

A Good Friend

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” ― Helen Keller

Recently we visited the new home of some very good friends. It had been a while since we were able to sit and enjoy the company of each other. It reminded me of just how lucky and privileged we are to have friends in life. If you have no friends, it would seem a lonely and dull life one lives. Friends when gathered represent a strong bond with life itself.

It helps to reflect upon those friendships from time to time. So here are a few quotes to help you with that. When done, give your friends a call and get on with being friends again.

"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had." ~ Author Unknown

"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend." ~ Plautus

"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen." ~ Rod McKuen

"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends." ~ Shirley Maclaine

"A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world." ~ Lois Wyse

"The best time to make friends is before you need them." ~ Ethel Barrymore

"A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should." ~ Author Unknown

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive." ~ Anäis Nin

"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world." ~ Thomas A. Edison

"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses." ~ David Storey

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Turn those strangers into friends and develop a great life time of friendship.

Stay inspired my friends!