Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters. Nathaniel Emmons Motivation is the single most important key to attaining any and all of your goals. If you cannot get excited about your goals, then achieving them can become hard work, drudgery and quickly abandoned. No one really wants to spend their [...]
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Five Effective Steps to Overcoming Fears
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Helen Keller Overcoming fears might appear simple in concept, but the actual application of the techniques is never easy, especially for the person directly involved. Depending on the intensity of the fear, [...]
Review: Inspired People Produce Results, @Jeremy_Kingsley
This is a short book that covers a lot of ground. Basically, Jeremy Kingsley has tried to encapsulate for us what makes leaders great, and how they get people to follow them. They do this by being inspiring them. He lays out the characteristics of how inspiration works and how it moves [...]
Reaching your goals successfully
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. Bill Cosby How you choose to define success is entirely up to you. Everyone is busily searching for the key to the secret of success. The secret to success is that there is no secret. Once you have defined what [...]
Keeping your motivation primed
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. Johann Gottfried Von Herder Everyone wants to do better; well, most people do. But staying motivated takes more that merely saying you favorite affirmations over and over, you must believe them. It means [...]
Why you need to develop your own mission statement
I have found that great people do have in common an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have great determination as well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity. Yousuf Karsh Why you [...]
5 Tips for staying motivated
Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. Les Brown Keeping yourself motivated to be able to excel at your job or to be an example to your colleagues at work, should not be something you do only when the spirit moves you, [...]
Find, follow and fuel your passion
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. James Joyce Finding, following and fueling your passion brings you personal power and awakens you to the beauty of the world. It leads you to the heart of your spiritual journey as it [...]
Re-invent You
“If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire.” Michael Sims Its the end of the year and you are beginning to think about some of the changes you want to make in and for your [...]
Influence for good
“The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson We all exert influence, but do we always choose to use it for good? In today’s rapidly changing world, with fast-paced lifestyles and busy workplaces, it is not unusual to occasionally feel a little down and out. The [...]
Building Motivational Habits
“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.” ~ Shaquille Oneal There are many ways that you can build up your motivational habits. And, like most things, it works best if you work on it on a daily basis. Habits can be difficult to create, but once [...]
Self-motivation: Alphabetically
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater Pain is often the main reason that most people choose to change. Getting poor grades makes us realize that we need to study. Deabt reminds us of our inability to maintain a budget. Being humiliated gives [...]
8 Ways to Cultivate Success
I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan What does success mean to you? You might define success as having a stable job in a large company where there are opportunities for growth, or even owning a large home. Perhaps your vision of success [...]
Have a Great Day. Its A Choice.
Life is often full of surprises. In an average day, a seemingly endless number of unexpected events can occur that can cause stress, worry and frustration. But, instead of letting these negative emotions take over, what if you were to make a conscious choice to have a great day? Ways to bring joy to [...]
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