INSPIRATIONAL SMOOTHIES...DRINKING UP THE GIFT OF ENCOURAGEMENT

[Missie Shealey]

I would like to share with you some of my my 'INSPIRATIONAL SMOOTHIES" that I give to my training class every day at work. It helps to keep us focused on our purpose before we deal with 'information overload'. Enjoy!

RISK

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk being called sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk
involvement.
To expose feeling is to risk showing your true self.
To place your ideas and dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naïve.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.

But risks must be taken, because the greatest risk in life is to risk nothing.
The people who risk nothing do nothing, have nothing, are nothing, and become nothing;
They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but the simply cannot learn to feel, and change, and grow, and love and live…
Chained by their servitude, they are slaves; They have forfeited their freedom.
Only the people who risk are truly FREE.

(Author Unknown)