Edit your environment - make small but meaningful additions or adjustments to your home, your closet and your life.

Ignore the pressure to be all things to all people.

Time is life. As Edith Wharton once described it, real life is deep and complex and slowly developed, and has its roots in fundamental things. And you cannot experience those fundamental things, or true pleasure in life, without taking your time.

Cultivate the art of saying No with mindfulness. Make decisions from your own center. ~ D. Ollivier

By taking care of yourself in both small and large, you are free to take care of others. D Ollivier

Tend to your personal private garden with dedication. ~ Debra Ollivier

Feed your mind.

Think before you speak. Leave some things unsaid. ~ D. Ollivier

Consider your life your personal currency - and invest in it wisely. ~ Debra Ollivier

Go gently against the grain.

Less is truly more, as long as it's an expression of quality and authenticity. ~ ~Entre Nous

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always the eye of the soul. ~ George Sand

Let the sun shine into your heart.

Happy Birthday sweet Annie!

Throughout your life, invest yourself in learning and experiencing, not to change who you are, but to become more fundamentally and more fully who you truly are. ~ Debra Ollivier

If you organize your life around the things you are passionate about, nothing is a time burden. You end up spending time with people you want to spend time with and doing what you love. ~ Jeffrey Bores, MN

Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that's not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? ~ E. Gilbert

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. ~ Pema Chodron

It's tempting to always be on, but that means we're never here. The only way to be available for what's in front of us is to be less available for everything else.

There's a bustling world of instant updates and constant connections that never sleeps, and it lives on our desk, in our purses, in our pockets. ~ Lori Deschene

When you worry, you are praying for what you don't want.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. ~ Johnny Cash

Life is sometimes messy and blotched. We do our best. We don't always know the right move. ~ E. Gilbert

In any case, at some point in out lives, we must stop beating ourselves up over bygone blunders - even blunders that seem so painfully obvious to us in retrospect - and we must move on with our lives. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

Sunshine Cakepops by YaYa's Attic (Janet Deonis)

If you worry about what might be,
and wonder might have been,
you will ignore what is. ~ Unknown

There is NO substitute for hard work. ~ Thomas Edison

Great job Sol Pedalers! .

2.5 hours of intense riding - I am so proud!

Mark Chauncey's morning photo 9/8/11

In order to change your life, you must Raise your Standards. Turn your Shoulds into a Must. Focus on the Outcome instead of Dreading the Process and Eliminate your excuses.

2.5 tomorrow beginning at 8am.

Have a wonderful Sunday, see you tomorrow!

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~ Winston Churchill