Month: August 2025

Charles Hayward, a cabinet maker and editor of The Woodworker magazine, on starting the year with enthusiasm:
“There is a dynamic quality about enthusiasm which nothing can resist. You can see it in the street orator, whose whole heart is in his argument, swaying a crowd. You can feel it in the work of any artist—painter, writer, musician, or whatever he be—if he has put himself into the thing he has wrought in, felt it enough, suffered it enough. And the beginning of the year is a good time, it seems to me, to set about enkindling our enthusiasm afresh. For life is a dead thing without it. Make it woodwork, if our tastes lie in that direction; make it stamp collecting; make it anything in the wide world so long as it is alive and vital.”
Source: “A New Year Spirit,” Woodworker Magazine (1938)
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One of the positive thinking sites that I have read for several years now is The Daily Motivator. Ralph Marston has written a daily motivator for the past 10 to 15 years and each one of them is different and encouraging in their own way.
It’s amazing because just a positive thought at the beginning of the day or even in the afternoon can help turn my attitude from souring to inspiring and happy. I’ve set up The Daily Motivator so that my phone can take me there or can read it to me and I’ve even used it as an example with others on how to be more positive and encouraging.
If you would like to get encouraged with a positive thought each day, check out The Daily Motivator at
dailymotivator.com
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