March 4: Motivational Monday

This week’s theme is success.

What is success?

What is success?

To laugh often and much;

To win the respect of intelligent people

and the affection of children;

To earn the appreciation of honest critics;

To appreciate beauty;

To find the best in others;

To leave the world a bit better, whether by

a healthy child, a garden patch

or a redeemed social condition.

To know even one life has breathed

easier because you have lived;

This is to have succeeded.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

*One line was omitted from the poem, as it was not applicable to the theme.