Are you smiling when you talk? Try it today, and I guarantee you will notice a difference in your life.

The biggest mistakes most parents make (and believe me, I'm guilty of these too) seem very inconsequential. They're little, day-to-day things that, at the moment, don't seem like a big deal.

By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.

Circumstances do not push or pull. They are daily lessons to be studied and gleaned for new knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge and wisdom that is applied will bring about a brighter tomorrow. A person who is depressed is spending too much time thinking about the way things are now and not enough time thinking about how he wants things to be.

But did you know that during the past quarter century, no presidential election has been won by more than ten million ballots cast? Yet every federal election during the same time period had at least one hundred million people of voting age who did not bother to vote!

Ask yourself this question everyday: What is it about me that other people would change if they could?

Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice.