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    I think you will enjoy these! Twenty-five Signs You Have Grown Up By:  Salma Rumman   ( View Profile ) 1. Your houseplants are alive, and you can’t smoke any of them. 2. Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question. 3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge. 4. 6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to bed. 5. You hear your favorite song in an elevator. 6. You watch the Weather Channel. 7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of “hook up” and “breakup.” 8. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 14. 9. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as “dressed up.” 10. You’re the one calling the police because those %&@# kids next door won’t turn down the stereo. You can read 11 to 25 at this link  http://www.divinecaroline.com/22117/35339-twenty-five-signs-grown#ixzz22D1XPNEw Wendy Mason is a career coach working mainly with professional women who want to make that jump to senior level while having a life outside work. Before work

President Barack Obama paints a quote (' The time is always right to do what is right ') from Martin Luther King, Jr  (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife ) A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place and when we expect nothing in return, Bhagavad Gita Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time Arnold H. Glasgow You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late, Ralph Waldo Emerson It's easy to play any musical instrument all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play it self Bach The time is always right to do what is right Martin Luther King Jr A year from now you will wish you had started today Karen Lamb Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. Barack Obama Somewhe

"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of LOVE" Marc Chagall Marc Chagall was born in 1887 to a poor Jewish family in Russia. He was the eldest of nine children. Chagall began to display his artistic talent while studying at a secular Russian school, and despite his father's disapproval, in 1907 he began studying art with Leon Bakst in St. Petersburg. It was at this time that his distinct style that we recognize today began to emerge. As his paintings began to center on images from his childhood, the focus that would guide his artistic motivation for the rest of his life came to fruition. In 1910, Chagall, moved to Paris for four years. It was during this period that he painted some of his most famous paintings of the Jewish village, and developed the features that became recognizable trademarks of his art. Strong and bright colors began to portray the world in a dreamlike st

Something to brighten your day - a tribute to Eddy and Patsy - looking their best. You can always turn it down I suppose! And how come Joanna Lumley looks good even when she shouldn't?  What Divas! Wendy Mason is a career coach working mainly with professional women who want to make that jump to senior level while having a life outside work. Before working as a coach, Wendy had a long career in both the public and private sectors in general management and consultancy as well as spells in HR. She now divides her time between face to face coaching, and coaching and blogging on-line. You can contact Wendy at  wendymason@wisewolfcoaching.com  and find out more at  http://wisewolfcoaching.com Email Wendy now at  wendymason@wisewolfcoaching.com  for a  free half hour coaching session  by phone or Skype Coming shortly - the WiseWolf Career and Personal Development Programme - if you would like to know more email  wendymason @wisewolfcoaching.com

Thursday Quotes - Women On Anger Photo credit: kool_skatkat Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. Maya Angelou I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in. Nicole Krauss, The History of Love So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone. Ellen Hopkins Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror. LaurellK. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade. Patricia Briggs, Dragon Bones This was som