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Lyndsey DePalma, founder, House of Steep

COLUMN = HEALTHY LIVING

Lyndsey DePalma is the founder of new Arlington, VA tea house and reflexology studio—about the treasure that is tea, the power of reflexology to heal and harmonize, and her entrepreneurial dreams for the future.

Before coming up with the concept for House of Steep, the shop’s creator Lyndsey DePalma wanted something for herself—to relax, and just be, for a while each day.
Not satisfied with any of the existing answers and armed with some entrepreneurial hard-wiring and a respect for natural healing, Lyndsey left her corporate career in human resources to bridge the gap.

A firm believer in present living, this small business owner also publishes her thoughts and ideas on relaxation and a peaceful lifestyle at placidhouse.com.

Since October of 2010, House of Steep has been taking up residence in Lyndsey’s heart and will become the ultimate destination for busy corporate citizens, casual connections, bridal parties, street shoppers, believers in alternative healing, moms and grandmoms, yogis and yoginis, consultants, crafters, lovers, and the rest of us.

For more information, visit www.houseofsteep.com.

Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”

– Steven Schussler

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

– Andrew Carnegie

I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”

– Barack Obama

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

– JFK

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”

– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.

– Carl von Clausewitz, On War

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

– Mark Twain

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”

– Norwegian proverb

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette