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1. The plan is progress, not perfection.
2. The past is over forget it.
3. The future holds out hope reach for it.
4. The secret is a determined attitude, maintain it.
5. The need is keeping a high standard together.

Life is 10% what happens to you in 90% how you react.

P149–The Solution
For I am confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6

Be like Jesus. Gentle and humble in heart. Matthew 11:28–30.
Unselfish

P148– Joy Stealers
1. Worry – an inordinate anxiety about something that may or may not occur.
2. Stress – an intense strain over a situation. We can’t change, something out of our control.
3. Fear – dreadful uneasiness over the presence of danger, evil, or pain.

P145– one ship drives east and another drives west
With the self same winds that blow.
‘Tis the set of the sails and not the gales,
Which tell us the way to go.
Like the wind of the sea, are the waves of fate;
As we voyage along through life,
‘Tis the set of the soul that decides the goal,
And not the calm, or the strife

P125– maturity is the ability to do a job, whether your supervised or not; finish a job once it started; carry money without spending it. And last, but not least, the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

page 121 on Dominic Dimaggio (Joe and Vince’s brother)— He had talent, passion and purpose.

P15– You’ll get one good pitch to hit. One good pitch. That’s all. Don’t count on more. So you better know the strike zone. And when you get that one good pitch you better hit it and hit it hard. Remember one good pitch. Ted Williams.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. Matthew 22:37–38.