"Talk Yourself Into Success"

Written by Shannon Emmanuel


You’ve tried and failed. You’ve watched others fall. You’re wiped out, burned out, and beaten. Is there any way to turn it all around?

If you’re reading this, than likely you have been working very hard at realizing a goal that now seems out of reach. It does not matter whether that goal is related to diet, creating a home business, getting a promotion, finishing a difficult course, or mastering a talent. The one common factor is that our past can, and will, affect our future success.

So, if nothing has worked, shouldn’t you throw inrepparttar towel? Learn from your mistakes and quit while you’re ahead?

Think of this: "What’s Possible?"

Why say Possible?

Motivational speaker, Les Brown, shares an interesting lesson with us when he points out that past perceptions influence our projected images of success or failure. Consider what changes can be made when you see that others before you have conqueredrepparttar 129090 same battles, and same fears, and created a successful outcome. And consider that if it was possible for them, than it IS possible. Period.

How a Biscuit Taught Me a Priceless Lesson in Life

Written by C. Bailey-Lloyd/LadyCamelot


There are no two greater ironic comparisons than that of a biscuit and life. For over two decades, I'd feverishly tried to bake biscuits. Being a baking 'connoisseur,' I was quite disheartened that I could easily knead & bake home-made yeast, cinnamon rolls and croissants - but try as I did, I could never grasprepparttar technique of making southern-baked biscuits. Regardless whether I usedrepparttar 129089 quick mix or home-made recipe kind, somehow my biscuits either came out ofrepparttar 129090 oven withrepparttar 129091 texture of mortar, fell apart like charcoal briquettes or tasted like salty play-doh. In any event, it was my solemn quest to bake these tasty breakfast breads some time before I die.

It was almost embarrassing whenever I would makesrepparttar 129092 Shoney's type breakfasts withoutrepparttar 129093 biscuits. While my kids were small, they pined forrepparttar 129094 buttery taste of home-baked biscuits...of course that never happened. I did attempt to make them countless times, but each time I retrieved them fromrepparttar 129095 oven, they got harder and harder. At one point, I even thought about marketing them as indestructible bricks for housing contractors. But my family was fairly nice to me. They would 'try' them from time to time, and in most cases, nearly chipped their teeth.

I would excuse myself forrepparttar 129096 poorly-made biscuits by stating, "...I simply don't have enough Southern blood in me..." And that was that. But, I still had this innate and sick compelling drive to createrepparttar 129097 ultimate biscuit. I could do everything else, whyrepparttar 129098 heck couldn't I bake a silly biscuit??? It was then that I went to visit my Aunt in Tennessee who bakedrepparttar 129099 most wonderful, breathtaking, mouthwatering biscuits. And she did it so easily. I was silently amazed byrepparttar 129100 ease of her fascinating maneuvers. My kids, hubby and I sat down to eat her fabulous biscuits and gravy - and they were better than good. Then my son piped up, "...why can't you make these biscuits, Mom?" And as usual, I told him that I just wasn't 'southern' enough.

Curiosity gotrepparttar 129101 best of me though, as I pulled my aunt aside and asked her, "How did you get those biscuits to turn out so good?" She explained that all she used was butter-flavored Crisco, some milk, salt, baking powder and flour. "Huh?" That just could not be. These wererepparttar 129102 exact same ingredients I had been using for over two decades. This was just not possible. Then she filled me in on a little secret: "It'srepparttar 129103 flour sifter. I have to use a flour sifter to getrepparttar 129104 flour to be lighter." Filled withrepparttar 129105 new information, I was devastated. A stupid flour sifter did all that??

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