“You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.” – Zig Ziglar
Often when we pick up a magazine or tune into the evening news, it appears at times that the whole world is just full of doom and gloom.
As people are frantically trying to live their lives, they can’t even take a few minutes to reflect on whether they are happy or not.
Obviously, we are not saying that it is possible to be happy all of the time. But many people manage to live in an overall state of happiness. But how do we achieve this?
When life feels overwhelmingly negative, it is easy to lose sight of how important happiness is. Most of the time people aren’t even aware, that they are the root of their own unhappiness.
More importantly, they are completely unaware that it is within their power to change. They don’t understand that happiness comes from within, but that it is a journey, taken one step at a time.
Thoughts of the Day
Feeling happy is vitally important in life. It has many fringe benefits. When you are happy, you tend to attract happy people to you. Happy people tend to be emotionally and physically healthier, more compassionate, creative, and energetic.
Generally, if you are happy, people tend to want to spend more time with you. When you are surrounded by positive, happy, creative, and energetic people you will see that the quality of your life improves. The more you spend with happy positive people the more will find that most of these people are also financially successful too.
Your happiness is not just good for you, it helps the people who are closest to you. Being positive can help others around you feel better about themselves, your family, friends, and colleagues will be happier the more time they spend with you.
When you look at the broader picture, what impact can happy people have on the world at large?
Is a happy person more likely to help or hurt his fellow man? If you are contented with your life, you are likely to make someone else miserable. We believe that happiness starts with the smallest step.
Instead of starting your day with a negative, why not start it with a very positive thought. Incorporating a thought for the day is a very useful habit.
Like most good habits, it is best to learn them at an age. The focus of our website is to help bring the power of positive thinking to our education system.
Thoughts of the Day in January
For every day in January, a positive thought to get you started with the right attitude!
January 1st
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.
January 2nd
Every next level of your life will demand a different you.
January 3rd
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
January 4th
Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.
January 5th
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
January 6th
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
January 7th
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
January 8th
Don’t tell people how to do things; tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
January 9th
Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
January 10th
There is no duty underrated as the duty of being happy.
January 11th
Little by little, one travels far.
January 12th
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
January 13th
If you make listening and observation your occupation, you will gain much more than you can by talk.
January 14th
I exist as I am, that is enough.
January 15th
Today is a wonderful day to have a wonderful day!
January 16th
Paths are made by walking.
January 17th
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.
January 18th
Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
January 19th
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
January 20th
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
January 21st
Change your thoughts and you’ll change your world.
January 22nd
Time doesn’t heal everything, but it sure does kill everything.
January 23rd
Be yourself–not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.
January 24th
Beautiful things happen when you distance yourself from negativity.
January 25th
We don’t kill time, we just sit around as time kills us.
January 26th
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.
January 27th
Be brave. Even when you’re not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.
January 28th
Shine with all you have. When someone tries to blow you out, just take their oxygen and burn brighter.
January 29th
Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.
January 30th
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
January 31st
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
Thoughts of the Day in February
February 1st
I can be a better me than anyone can.
February 2nd
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
February 3rd
A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
February 4th
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!
February 5th
Every child is different. They just unwrap their packages at different times.
February 6th
Cats are proof that looking cute is a really effective survival strategy.
February 7th
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
February 8th
Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.
February 9th
A goal that is not planned is a wish; a dream that is not chased is a fantasy.
February 10th
One moment of patience, in a moment of anger, can save a thousand moments of regret.
February 11th
The successful warrior is the average man, with laserlike focus.
February 12th
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
February 13th
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
February 14th
We’re hurt more by our own expectations of others than by their actual actions.
February 15th
Don’t be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.
February 16th
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
February 17th
He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.
February 18th
There is no security in this world. Only opportunity.
February 19th
When life gives you lemons… you can’t make lemonade. Lemonade is mostly sugar and water, not lemons.
February 20th
Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it all you’ve got.
February 21st
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
February 22nd
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
February 23rd
No one reaches a high position without daring.
February 24th
Raise your words not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers not thunder.
February 25th
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
February 26th
Dreams are your subconscious self talking and getting messages to your conscious self.
February 27th
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
February 28th
You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life.
Thoughts of the Day in March
March 1st
Do something every day to move toward your goal. Get going and keep going. Just do it.
March 2nd
Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.
March 3rd
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
March 4th
Life isn’t fair, neither is death.
March 5th
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
March 6th
The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
March 7th
The courage to continue is what distinguishes success from failure.
March 8th
The more shits life throws at you, the less shit you give about life.
March 9th
For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.
March 10th
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
March 11th
Never be too busy to meet someone new.
March 12th
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
March 13th
You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
March 14th
Well done is better than well said.
March 15th
Everyone has a plan ’til they get punched in the mouth.
March 16th
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
March 17th
Don’t base your decisions on the advice of those who won’t have to deal with the results.
March 18th
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
March 19th
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.
March 20th
Let today be the day you learn the grace of letting go and the power of moving on.
March 21st
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
March 22nd
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
March 23rd
The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.
March 24th
A year from now you may wish you had started today.
March 25th
Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.
March 26th
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
March 27th
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
March 28th
Surprise yourself every day with your own courage.
March 29th
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
March 30th
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
March 31st
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
Thoughts of the Day in April
April 1st
It’s meaning in your life that causes you to have ideas that will help people.
April 2nd
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it isn’t open.
April 3rd
Going halfway never gets you anywhere. Go all the way or don’t go at all.
April 4th
Not talking at all is a lot better than having a half-assed conversation.
April 5th
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
April 6th
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
April 7th
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
April 8th
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
April 9th
Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
April 10th
The smarter you are, the harder choosing something becomes.
April 11th
Don’t let small minds convince you that your dreams are too big.
April 12th
Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
April 13th
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
April 14th
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
April 15th
Do what is right, not what is easy.
April 16th
Positive start will work better than a negative one!
April 17th
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
April 18th
Happiness is not the absence of problems; it’s the ability to deal with them.
April 19th
No one has ever become poor by giving.
April 20th
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
April 21st
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
April 22nd
As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.
April 23rd
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
April 24th
Push today for what you want tomorrow!
April 25th
If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
April 26th
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
April 27th
What we spend, we lose. What we keep will be left for others. What we give away will be ours forever.
April 28th
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
April 29th
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
April 30th
Unfortunately common sense has become more of a super power.
Thoughts of the Day in May
May 1st
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
May 2nd
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
May 3rd
Don’t let winning make you soft. Don’t let losing make you quite. Don’t let your teammates down in any situation.
May 4th
Look back and be grateful Look ahead and be hopeful Look around and be helpful.
May 5th
The best revenge is massive success.
May 6th
It’s a cruel joke how time goes by faster when you’re entertained but goes by slower when you’re bored.
May 7th
If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.
May 8th
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
May 9th
It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit.
May 10th
If something exists, someone hates it.
May 11th
I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.
May 12th
The best way out is always through.
May 13th
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
May 14th
If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.
May 15th
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
May 16th
Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.
May 17th
You can be the ripest, juciest peach in the world, and there are still going to be some people who hate peaches.
May 18th
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
May 19th
Don’t let your struggle become your identity.
May 20th
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
May 21st
Our greatest glory is, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
May 22nd
The easiest way to make people uncomfortable is to ride an elevator facing the wall instead of the door.
May 23rd
If you can dream it you can build it. If you can build it, you can live it.
May 24th
I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
May 25th
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
May 26th
We’d achieve more if we chased our dreams instead of our competition.
May 27th
Pandas are a perfect example that you can still be fat eating salads.
May 28th
Being an optimist after you’ve got the very thing you want doesn’t count.
May 29th
You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
May 30th
Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient.
May 31st
Waking up in a dry bed after dreaming about having a huge pee is one of the few benefits of being a grownup.
Thoughts of the Day in June
June 1st
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
June 2nd
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
June 3rd
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
June 4th
Drinking 8 glasses of water per day seems insane but drinking 8 beers in 2 hours is absolutely do able.
June 5th
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
June 6th
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
June 7th
Your life is short. You have no clue when this ride will end. Stay present and live fearlessly.
June 8th
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
June 9th
Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.
June 10th
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
June 11th
You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
June 12th
True laziness is memorising how many minutes fast or slow your clock is, rather than changing it.
June 13th
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track.
June 14th
May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.
June 15th
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
June 16th
Most people that say they don’t like reading probably spend all day on their phone reading.
June 17th
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you’ll be a success.
June 18th
Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.
June 19th
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.
June 20th
Mistakes are the stairs we climb to reach success.
June 21st
When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you’ll be successful.
June 22nd
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
June 23rd
I’m so busy I don’t know whether I found a rope or lost my horse.
June 24th
You might have dodged death without realizing it just by doing something like bending down.
June 25th
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
June 26th
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.
June 27th
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
June 28th
On a sleepless night, it’s cruel how deeply tired we become 30 minutes before the alarm goes off.
June 29th
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
June 30th
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
Thoughts of the Day in July
July 1st
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
July 2nd
Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.
July 3rd
Find your spirit, and no challenge will keep you from achieving your goals.
July 4th
When you try to avoid being awkward, you end up looking more awkward in situations.
July 5th
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
July 6th
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
July 7th
If you’re creating anything at all, it’s really dangerous to care about what people think.
July 8th
You are actually invisible when nobody is watching you.
July 9th
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
July 10th
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
July 11th
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
July 12th
Knowledge is being able to destroy someone with an insult, wisdom is not doing it because it’s not nice.
July 13th
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
July 14th
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
July 15th
Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.
July 16th
You can ignore time, but it will never ignore you.
July 17th
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
July 18th
When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.
July 19th
I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.
July 20th
The older you become the less of a deterrent a life sentence becomes.
July 21st
Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
July 22nd
What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
July 23rd
Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.
July 24th
It’s ironic how much things we get done while procrastinating at the same time too.
July 25th
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
July 26th
Winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
July 27th
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
July 28th
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
July 29th
Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.
July 30th
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
July 31st
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Thoughts of the Day in August
August 1st
With the new day come new thoughts and new strengths.
August 2nd
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
August 3rd
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
August 4th
Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.
August 5th
Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.
August 6th
When you know better, you do better.
August 7th
If you want to be more powerful in life, educate yourself. It’s that simple.
August 8th
Nothing is particularly hard if you break it down into small jobs.
August 9th
Treat others the way you want to be treated
August 10th
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
August 11th
Owning a mistake is greater than faking perfection.
August 12th
When you talk, you are only repeating something you know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.
August 13th
Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.
August 14th
Live in Now. Make Now the most precious time because Now will never come again.
August 15th
Success is the sum of several small efforts repeated often day in and day out.
August 16th
If it’s important to you, you’ll find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.
August 17th
You will never have this day again. So make it count!
August 18th
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
August 19th
If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies.
August 20th
The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.
August 21st
Push yourself because, No one else is going to do it for you.
August 22nd
We make our choices. Then our choices make us.
August 23rd
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
August 24th
Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before.
August 25th
Today is a great day to learn something new.
August 26th
The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
August 27th
Difficult roads leads to beautiful destinations.
August 28th
The more you give away the happier you become.
August 29th
Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
August 30th
Every day may not be good. But there is something good in every day.
August 31st
Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Thoughts of the Day in September
September 1st
If you get tired, learn to rest not to quit.
September 2nd
Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
September 3rd
It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good Student.
September 4th
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come yet. We have only today. Let us begin.
September 5th
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
September 6th
Practice like you never won, perform like you never lost.
September 7th
Be yourself, for everybody else is already taken.
September 8th
You can turn your ordinary personality into a human magnet just through constant thankfulness.
September 9th
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.
September 10th
Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
September 11th
Bad attitude is like a flat tire, you won’t go anywhere till you change it.
September 12th
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
September 13th
Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.
September 14th
Action is the fundamental key to success.
September 15th
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
September 16th
It is not joy that makes us grateful, it is gratitude that makes us joyful.
September 17th
You’re braver than you believe and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
September 18th
If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren’t willing to do.
September 19th
The expert in anything was once a beginner.
September 20th
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
September 21st
Stand up for what is right, even if you stand alone.
September 22nd
Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
September 23rd
Life gives us new lessons each day not for learning but to improve our understanding.
September 24th
Preparation is the key to success.
September 25th
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
September 26th
To succeed in your mission, you must have a single minded devotion towards your goal.
September 27th
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
September 28th
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
September 29th
The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
September 30th
You can’t direct the wind but you can adjust the sails.
Thoughts of the Day in October
October 1st
The only real luxury is time, it doesn’t come back.
October 2nd
Forget the mistake, remember the lesson.
October 3rd
The time is always right to do what is right.
October 4th
Talent without working hard is nothing.
October 5th
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
October 6th
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
October 7th
A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles.
October 8th
Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.
October 9th
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me.
October 10th
Be positive, patient and persistent. And you will be successful.
October 11th
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
October 12th
Learning is a treasure that will follow it’s owner everywhere.
October 13th
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
October 14th
Always keep in mind you are unique – just like everybody else.
October 15th
The future depends on what we do in the present.
October 16th
If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.
October 17th
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
October 18th
Never give up something that you really want. It is difficult to wait, but more difficult to regret.
October 19th
You are capable of amazing things.
October 20th
Sometimes there are no second chances, No time outs, No next time, Sometimes its NOW or NEVER!
October 21st
I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.
October 22nd
Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.
October 23rd
There is no substitute for hard work.
October 24th
Do not give up, the beginning is always the hardest.
October 25th
If today you are a little better than yesterday, then it’s enough.
October 26th
Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
October 27th
Mistakes are proof that you are trying.
October 28th
Never speak bad about yourself.
October 29th
The pain you feel today is the strength you will feel tomorrow.
October 30th
You learn something every day if you pay attention.
October 31st
Doing nothing is a great way to change nothing.
Thoughts of the Day in November
November 1st
You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
November 2nd
Teachers open the door, but you must open yourself.
November 3rd
Discipline is doing what needs to be done even if you don’t want to do it.
November 4th
Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
November 5th
Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think!
November 6th
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
November 7th
Make your dreams happen. Magic is real.
November 8th
Only real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
November 9th
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
November 10th
You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
November 11th
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
November 12th
Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.
November 13th
It’s easy to stand with the crowd. It takes courage to stand alone.
November 14th
You don’t always get what you wish for; you get what you work for.
November 15th
Inhale courage, exhale fear.
November 16th
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
November 17th
Only you and you alone can change your situation. Don’t blame it on anything or anyone.
November 18th
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
November 19th
Don’t let anyone dull your sparkle.
November 20th
The deepest and most overlooked truth is that innovation cannot happen without failures.
November 21st
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
November 22nd
There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.
November 23rd
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell them “Certainly I CAN” then get busy and find out how to do it.
November 24th
Never let your fear decide what your future will be.
November 25th
Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.
November 26th
There is a huge difference between a dog that is going to eat you in your mind and an actual dog that’s going to eat you.
November 27th
Courage is like a muscle; it is strengthened by use.
November 28th
It doesn’t matter what others are doing. It matters what you are doing.
November 29th
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
November 30th
Make your vision so clear that your fears become irrelevant.
Thoughts of the Day in December
December 1st
Everyone is a reader. Some just haven’t found their favorite book yet.
December 2nd
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
December 3rd
Show respect even to people who don’t deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours.
December 4th
The best thing about telling the truth my child is that you don’t have to remember what you said.
December 5th
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
December 6th
Character is doing the right thing when nobody is looking.
December 7th
You can be anything you want in this world. Just don’t be ungrateful.
December 8th
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
December 9th
The real test of character is how you treat the people you do not have to be nice to.
December 10th
Your attitude determines your direction.
December 11th
My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar Him.
December 12th
You can tell a lot about a person’s character by what they laugh at.
December 13th
If you want a different result, make a different choice.
December 14th
If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
December 15th
You don’t have to perfect to be amazing.
December 16th
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
December 17th
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little “extra.
December 18th
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
December 19th
You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
December 20th
Be big enough to admit, encourage and admire the abilities people who are better than you.
December 21st
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
December 22nd
A beautiful life begins with a beautiful mind.
December 23rd
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
December 24th
Fear can hold you prisoner and hope will set you free.
December 25th
Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.
December 26th
Be the type of person you want to meet.
December 27th
Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.
December 28th
Strive for progress, not perfection.
December 29th
The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping-stone is how high you raise your foot.
December 30th
Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try.
December 31st
Every day is something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
How to Integrate Thoughts of the Day into the School Day
The time children spend in education and their teachers have a huge and lasting impact on them. A teacher’s role is not only to impart the knowledge of academic skills but fostering a student’s confidence and self-esteem is equally as important.
An educator should take as many opportunities as possible to reinforce his or her students’ self-esteem, in the classroom and throughout the school. Happy students are productive students. They tend to learn at a more accelerated rate and are motivated to help others to learn.
Thoughts of the day and the school assembly
This is the ideal opportunity to impact the lives of your students. Assembly occurs before any classes take place. Take this opportunity to build a positive atmosphere in the school. Choose your words carefully, pick words that provoke thoughts, invoke an image in the minds of the students that can make a difference.
The power of words is undeniable. Life and death hang in the balance. Words can either create or destroy. If your words serve as a provocation or a call to action, they might change the minds and thus the lives of some of the students present.
Remember, you can linger in the hearts and minds of these young people for a lifetime, long after they leave the security of the school’s walls. Remember the assembly provides an opportunity to reach many more students than a single classroom ever will.
Focus on reaching one student. That student can then help reach others in the assembly. If you can manage this at every assembly, within a matter of months you can begin to positively impact the whole environment of the school.
Thoughts of the day for Teachers
Before a school can become a positive influence on its students, it needs to do the same for its teachers. If you are in charge of the students, try and create an environment where teachers arrive early and meet before the school assembles.
These meetings should be focused on creating a positive, supportive, and happy teaching environment. A teaching community that is happy and positive can have a huge influence impact on its school.
How can you expect students to be happy to learn from a teacher who is miserable? Thoughts of the day can foster a positive, can-do attitude among your teaching staff. Teachers should lead by example, bringing a positive attitude to their interactions with their fellow teachers, parents, and most importantly their students.
Thoughts of the day can be used for younger kids too. Even though they have a limited vocabulary, they can learn through song, dance and total physical response.
Fostering a positive, can-do attitude at such a young age will stand to children for the rest of the lives. Children are never too young to experience the power of positive thoughts.
Fostering a positive attitude among your students
Negativity is a huge barrier to success in students. It surrounds them and prevents them from achieving the most simple goals. It can prevent them from accomplishing anything in life. Negative thoughts in the classroom can hold a student back from reaching their potential.
By fostering a positive attitude in their classroom, teachers can play a huge role in their students’ lives. Watch the difference in students when they take the simple step of just starting to believe in themselves. Introduce some Thoughts of the Day into your classroom environment, ask the students to debate its meaning, and how it could impact their lives.
Any interaction with their parents should be focused on getting them on the same page and offer them a chance to witness the change in their child firsthand.
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How to create a positive environment in your school and classroom
Here are some tips to help your students think and act in a positive manner.
Lead by example
Be a positive role model for your students. Act in an encouraging, optimistic manner, if you believe your students will. Your level of positivism directly impacts the results you will see among your students. If they witness others improving when they follow your example, they are more likely to copy and seek the same results.
The classroom should encourage optimism in all things, create practical experiments that demonstrate how happiness and positivism impact your success.
Sometimes you are all the example your students need. Don’t be afraid to share a personal goal with your students and stay positive in sharing your journey with them. Show them how optimism can create an environment for happiness and how positivism directly influences the success rate, of any set goal you may have.
We all know that seeing is believing, and there’s no better role model to demonstrate success than you. Your students are more likely to succeed when tackling the challenges of academic life when they are learning in a positive environment.
Visualization is extremely useful if students are more likely to succeed when they are encouraged to only see a positive outcome from the start. Setting regular goals with your students to ensure that they know what success looks like.
Start with simple goals and build more complicated and difficult ones. Set a series of rewards so students learn a valuable lesson. Get them to discuss how does it feel to be successful? Why is this important, why does it matter?
Statements such as “I can’t” need to be eliminated from the classroom. When a student uses it, the best advice is to take a step back and ask them questions such as “What makes you think this?”, “Can I help you?” or “Do you know what you need to be able to do it?”.
When you react to negativity in this manner, it encourages a positive open relationship in the classroom. Once your student provides you with a viable answer, formulate a plan to get the whole class involved in building a “We can” environment.
Focus on creating positive thought patterns in the classroom
As you highlight the negative aspects of the classroom environment to your students, ensure that you focus on replacing the negatives with positives. This process has to be relentless. All negatives need to be rejected in favor of a positive. This could be considered as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
It has proven to change people’s behavior and thinking that is directly linked to specific learning difficulties. The more you pursue this process, the more your students’ thoughts and actions will change from negative to positive.
Play an active supporting role in your students’ transformation
Become their biggest fans. As their teacher, you will have to be aware of the influence of your thoughts, words, and actions on the confidence of your entire classroom.
Students who do not believe in themselves need to have someone who believes in them, someone who accepts them for who they are and is encouraging them to change their destructive behavior.
Simply because you know it is their best interest. As your students follow this path, they will grow in self-belief developing positive thoughts and actions.
Never lose sight of the fact that with any behavior modification, rewards are an important cog in the wheel of success. This will prove to be a massively motivating factor. Remember that they will not always succeed, so teaching them to deal with failures is equally important.
How to switch off the low feelings and recover to the highs that success brings. The success of your journey lies firmly in teaching the students how to react. So rewards will be crucial to refocus the students on the positive pathway.
Building this type of everyday environment in the classroom can be helped by introducing thoughts of the day for students at the start of every day. They can help not alone improve students outlook about themselves, but also their perceptions of their classmates.
The class can start to build an environment that fosters and motivates children to continue their progress and strive to attain and surpass their goals may it be as individuals, group, personal or academic.
It is vital that these strategies are incorporated into a weekly routine. At the end of each week, you should find some time to reflect on the success of your work. Every few weeks, students should be encouraged to reflect on their own achievements and how this new attitude has impacted their lives if any.
Which is more fun, feeling negative or positive? Which answer is more productive, saying “I can” or “I can’t”?
Remember that for this to succeed, one needs to be fully committed to the cause because this will prove extremely rewarding for you as a teacher. It will help you develop the skills needed to become a better teacher. For you to maintain your positive attitude, you need to implement some positive changes in your life.
You will need to do a lot of reflection on yourself, but more importantly, on your students. This will involve some extracurricular work yourself. Remember that this is a process, and like all great journeys, they start with a single step.
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