Quotations

     I am a huge fan of quotations.  I have quotes for just about everything, funny, encouraging, motivational and inspirational.  If you would like a tool that can have a daily impact on your life, try collecting and memorizing quotations.  Reading new ones everyday is a big part of staying positive and motivated.  Here are just a few of my personal favorites.  It really is a wonderful life.

"After all . . . I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string." - Lucy Maud Montgomery (from Anne of Green Gables)

"In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered. In the last century (1800-1899) more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century (1900 - 1999) hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done --- then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts --- just mere thought --- are as powerful as electric batteries --- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live." - Frances Hodgson Burnett (from The Secret Garden)

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank

 "Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars." - Casey Kasem

"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.

Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career to associate with them for even one day?

Sure, I'm lucky. Who wouldn't consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert - also the builder of baseball's greatest empire, Ed Barrow - to have spent the next nine years with that wonderful little fellow Miller Huggins - then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology - the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy!

Sure, I'm lucky. When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift, that's something! When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies, that's something.

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles against her own daughter, that's something. When you have a father and mother who work all their lives so that you can have an education and build your body, it's a blessing! When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed, that's the finest I know.

So I close in saying that I might have had a tough break - but I have an awful lot to live for! Thank you!" - Lou Gehrig - July 4,1939

Introducting IGetU2C's Toolbox by Brian D. Collins

     Howdy everyone!  Welcome to my workshop!  Here is where you will have a chance to learn how to use some tools that you may not have heard of before.  You can also learn a new way to use some old tools that you already have in your collection.  My workshop has only one toolbox and there are only a few tools I use on a day to day basis.  Like you, I am still learning and growing and so I will add a few new tools along the way.  Tools can be anything that can help make our daily lives better.  Triggers are tools to help remind us of habits that we are adopting into our lives.  Quotations are tools that help keep us on the path that we have laid out for our future.  Some tools can replace one or more old tools that you have been using for a long time now.  There are so many tools to choose from, CD's, Books, seminars and conferences, just to name a few.  My hope is to find a way to make your life a better place to be.

     Many tools that I have found have come from primarily a single source.  A movie!  Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."  Our lives have ups and downs, triumphs and tragedies, success and failure and lets face it, some pretty memorable moments that seems to be what effects us the most.  My goal is to find a way to increase those moments of good memories by both quality and quantity.  How does that happen?  We need to make a few changes in our lives.  Sometimes the most simple of changes in habit or deed can have the biggest impact on our attitude as well as how others perceive who we really are.  I have always enjoyed teaching and having conversations that essentially lead to helping others find a way to think for themselves and to reach a conclusion that will take them to the next step up in there life journey.

     To answer a question that I get every once in awhile, what is "IGetU2C?"  Simply explained, it's "I Get You To See."  Many years ago I was visiting an eye doctor that had personalized license plates on his car.  He used an image of those plates pretty much everywhere.  When he closed his practice in California I acquired his idea.  I have been using it for about twenty years now.  So I have named my blog "IGetU2C's Toolbox" for the simple reason that I want to present tools that will help you see a better or different way of looking at the world around you.  Take the tools that you want and leave the rest.  If you find a tool that you like, you can use it the way I present it or you can customize your own experience with it.  I am a straight foreword, simple person that enjoys learning new things and meeting new people and going to new places.  My hope is to join you in a fun and exciting walk through life and at the same time help each other out a little along the way.

     My blog titled "IGetU2C" is just for reposts of quotations and ideas from others that I find interesting as well as products and services that I have to sell.  Add it to your daily browsing and find something useful everyday.  You can follow me on twitter and instagram and like my page on facebook as well.  I am a builder so you'll find things changing and being added.  Let's have fun together.  It really is a wonderful life.