How often do you look to others to validate you? How often do you wait for others to treat you the way you want to be treated and feel sad, disappointed or rejected when they do not? How often do you allow others to hurt your feelings? Isn't it time to stop? What if you chose to love yourself FIRST?   QUOTE: "It is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you can truly love others. " ― Robin Sharma   #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration     Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration

What happens when people lie? How do our words impact others, especially when they are untrue? What happens when we don’t live in honesty? How can we recover from dishonesty? Each one of us has the choice and responsibility to uphold and examine the truth—or else.   QUOTE: "One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth " ― Chinese Proverb   #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration

When you wake up in the morning are you grateful? Do you feel a sense of wonder as you start your day? What motivates you? As you move from day to day, year to year how do you stay in tune with your life? As you mature, how do you stay motivated? What drives you?   QUOTE: "If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions. " ― Hans Selye   #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration

We all make mistakes in life. It’s part of being human. If you are unable to forgive people for their errors, for their ways, you will be perpetually unhappy. Who wants that?   QUOTE: " To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. " ― Robert Muller   #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration

When bad things happen, what do you do? Do you panic? Do you wake up at night in a cold sweat? Do you get stuck? Any of those reactions is normal, but there is another choice. Replace worry with a plan of action. Look around. What is before you? What can you create? How can you claim next?   QUOTE: "Don't Worry. Make a Plan" ― Harriette Cole   #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration

Get it done. Are you an ideas person? Do you wake up with a burst of energy and the belief that you can make it happen? How often do you dedicate time to that idea and see it to fruition? Are you a person who follows through on your commitments? How do you feel when you get it done?   QUOTE: "Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment." ―Kenneth Chenault   #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration

How often do you lash out when you are affected by someone’s behavior? Do you attack others when you feel pressured? How do you react to intense situations? What happens when you pause and gather your thoughts before you speak?   QUOTE: “Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones” Proverbs 16:24 ―Proverbs 16:24   #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration

How do you treat others when you are feeling off balance? How do you treat yourself during those tender times? Instead of lashing out or wallowing in self pity, do something kind for yourself and others. Develop the muscle of kindness and your life will sweeten.   QUOTE: “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.” ―Wendy Mass   #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration

Be positive! Your outlook on life has everything to do with the quality of your experience. How often are you grumpy, agitated, angry or sad? What happens when you allow yourself to sit in those feelings? When you are able to adopt a positive attitude life gets sweeter no matter what you are facing.   QUOTE: “Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.” —Mary Lou Retton   #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration

In the end what do you want your life to be like? How do you want to spend your day? What energy do you want to permeate your being? Are you okay with being anxious, afraid, angry, frustrated, or sad? What do you want? If you strive to claim peace in each moment you stand a better chance of being calm and content, and even joyous. Doesn't that sound appealing?   QUOTE: “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace” —Dalai Lama   #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration

How often do you compare yourself to others? How often do you fear you do not measure up? How do you behave when you are around people who have more than you or who seem happier than you? How does this type of comparison affect your being? Rather than striving to be like somebody else, consider focusing on being your best.   QUOTE: “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” —Judy Garland   #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration

How do you approach the situations that present themselves to you? Do you whine, complain, sigh? Do you suggest solutions? Do you imagine outcomes? Do you look for a way to illuminate what's before you? What do you do? A leader welcomes solutions and guides others to that creative option.   QUOTE: “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” —John Quincy Adams   #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration

As you go through life do you think about what impact your thoughts, words and deeds have on others? Do your actions matter? Are you making conscious choices about how you live and what your life will mean after you are gone? You should.   QUOTE: “I want to leave people better than I find them, to leave a mark not a scar...to deposit hope and faith…and some seeds of joy. Life is about loving God and loving people. I want to leave a legacy of love.”    #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration

How often do you have an impact on a situation without even realizing it? What happens when you walk away from a person, a job, a community, a moment? Do you ever stop and turn around to see what is left in your wake? I encourage you to do so, because what happens at the end of scenarios is often more impactful than what happened at the beginning.   QUOTE: “Endings are more important than beginnings. ” ―Harriette Cole   #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration

How often do you blame other people or situations for your state? It has got to be somebody else's fault that you find yourself in the predicament you are in, right? Wrong. We are responsible for our state of mind, for our state of being. We have to do the work to fix what's going on inside of us. Otherwise, wherever we go our ways will follow us and we will never find peace.   QUOTE: “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” ―Eckhart Tolle   #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration

What happens when you choose what's best for you? When you pause to consider the right steps to live your life? When you stop doing what others want you to do and stand in your own power, conviction and clarity?   QUOTE: “If you want to be happy, be.” -Leo Tolstoy   #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration

How do you define family? Is it the people with whom you share blood? People you have invited into your heart through love? Both? How do you tend to them? How do you manage conflict with them? How do you connect to them? How do you forgive them? How do you build with them?   QUOTE: “Family is the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” -Brad Henry   #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration

QUOTE: “I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.” -Jon Katz   #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration   DREAMLEAPERS® is an educational platform designed to help people access and activate their dreams. 

QUOTE: “A mother’s love liberates.” -Maya Angelou   #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration   DREAMLEAPERS® is an educational platform designed to help people access and activate their dreams. 

How many times do you get sidetracked during the day? You have things to do, often important things but somehow your mind lights onto this or that and the time slips by. Resist multitasking. It doesn’t work. Focus instead on one thing at a time. You will thank yourself later.   QUOTE: “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are.” -Steve Jobs   #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration   DREAMLEAPERS® is an educational platform designed to help people access and activate their dreams.   

How often do you have a gripe and you just can't let it go? Have you ever allowed something to build up so much that it becomes an insurmountable issue? What if you looked at it differently? What if you could laugh at yourself or the situation? Or just not take it so seriously? Then what would happen?   QUOTE: “It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.” -Betty White   #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration   DREAMLEAPERS® is an educational platform designed to help people access and activate their dreams. 

Do you realize that you have control over how you react to things? That you have the ability to choose how you will see what's happening in your life and how you will engage whatever is before you? That is true power, but only when you recognize it and harness it. When you choose your attitude, you control your life.   QUOTE: “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” -Oprah Winfrey   #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration   DREAMLEAPERS® is an educational platform designed to help people access and activate their dreams. 

What do you do when you feel down and out? When you feel like you "got up on the wrong side of the bed"? When nothing seems to be going right? Count your blessings. It works!   QUOTE: “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” -Willie Nelson   #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration   DREAMLEAPERS® is an educational platform designed to help people access and activate their dreams. 

So many of us struggle in our pursuit of success. There always seems to be something standing in our way. Amazingly, when you change your attitude about how you live in the world, everything can get easier. Choose to live through the lens of service.   QUOTE: "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."   #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration   DREAMLEAPERS® is an educational platform designed to help people access and activate their dreams. 

When you wake up in the morning do you realize that you have a choice as to how you will approach the day? You do. In that moment and every moment after. How often do you control your choices? "In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact." Les Brown #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration   DREAMLEAPERS® is an educational platform designed to help people access and activate their dreams. Virtual workshops and one-on-one coaching to organizations and individuals who are looking to fine-tune their presentation. Coaching includes public speaking training, life coaching, etiquette training, content development, and confidence-building.  

Bad things happen to all of us. Some are more devastating than others. In order to survive and have a healthy heart you absolutely must choose to forgive. No matter how long it takes, process what has happened and allow yourself to be grateful for what you have learned, and have strength to move on. “True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.”- Oprah Winfrey #HarrietteColeMedia #HarrietteCole #Dreamleapers #DreamleapersInspiration   Tune in to www.harriettecole.com/inspiration every Monday morning at 9am EST for #DreamleapersInspiration   DREAMLEAPERS® is an educational platform designed to help people access and activate their dreams. Virtual workshops and one-on-one coaching to organizations and individuals who are looking to fine-tune their presentation. Coaching includes public speaking training, life coaching, etiquette training, content development, and confidence-building.    

“There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.” - Fred Rogers

 Sometimes the moment calls for us to allow our feelings to reveal themselves. Sometimes the release of tears is healthy. But how often do you allow yourself to cry?

How often have you given up before you completed an important task? When did you last lose the energy to push to the end? How did you feel after? Let's talk about the value of persistence in the pursuit of happiness.   "Nothing in this 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 a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” - Calvin Coolidge  

The year is off to a good start, but are you? Where do you stand as far as your goals and dreams go? What stumbling blocks have already shown themselves? How committed are you to your dreams? Let's talk about it.   “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” - Nelson Mandela

Have you ever felt like it just isn't worth it anymore? It can be anything. The job. The relationship. The house. The grind. Even the life. Know that things can change. And it has a whole lot to do with your attitude.

As human beings we need each other. The people we choose to be "our people" matter. How do you choose your friends? What makes your friendships valuable? How do you nurture them? How do friends figure in your life? “Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” - Amy Poehler

 “You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.” -Jim Rohn