Happy Thanksgiving

11/28/2013

by Skip Cohen

I know if all of us were sitting around one giant Thanksgiving dinner table today and we went around and shared what we were most thankful for I'd have a lot to say. At the top of the list, along with the support and love of my wife, Sheila, I'd have to thank all of you for your support. SCU started just over ten months ago and it continues to grow. With your help and feedback we're going to keep adding new features and focus on helping you THRIVE, not just survive.

Knowing many of the challenges everybody is facing these days and with the year coming to a close it seems appropriate to share five of my favorite quotes. There are some incredible people in the world who have done an amazing job of giving us things to think about and five of them are right here:

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.
Mary Kay Ash

Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
Wayne Dyer

The only thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is the will to try it and the faith to believe it possible.
Rich Devos

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Gandhi

No matter how tough a year you've had, no matter what challenges in life have been thrown at you throughout this past year, if you're sitting at your computer reading this blog, you have a lot to be thankful for!

Wishing all of you a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with memory-making moments and the love of family and friends. Make it a great day...and stay away from the computer until tomorrow!

Photo Credit: © Magdalena Kucova - Fotolia.com

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Skip Cohen is President of SCU, founder of Marketing Essentials International and past president of Rangefinder Publishing and WPPI. He's been an active participant in the photographic industry since joining Hasselblad USA in 1987 as president. He has co-authored six books on photography and actively supports dozens of projects each year involving photographic education.