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Stress: Does NOT do a body good
Stress: The confusion created when one’s mind overrides the body’s basic desire to choke the living daylights out of some jerk who desperately deserves it. Unknown Everyone takes it for granted that stress can have profound effects on your mental health. It can cause you to lose focus, or it can trigger episodes of depression or [...]
Leaders are lifetime learners
True wisdom cannot be learned in a lifetime, but can be revealed in a moment, for it has always lived within each and every one of us. Jonathan Lockwood Huie Leaders, do not possess mindsets that adapt to failure, easily, if at all. Things go wrong, of course, but leaders do not call these things or themselves “failures.” [...]
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 [...]
Musings + Affirmations: I have a giving and generous spirit.
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others. Barbara Bush Affirmation: I have a giving spirit. I believe that I have been created to help others by giving my time, thoughts and worldly possessions. I give naturally [...]
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 [...]
Influencing your mind to perform better
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. Voltaire How well do you think of yourself mentally? If you were to ask yourself if you thought you were intelligent, would you answer with a nod and a smile, or with an ashamed-faced “maybe”? In answering this question, you should know that there [...]
If you don’t like it…
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If you can change your point of view, then you can change your life
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill Think for a moment. If you were top place second in a writing contest, would you be jumping for joy and push yourself for even better results the next time, or would you be discouraged and [...]
Musings + Affirmations: I study my behaviors to make myself better 4-28-13
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics. Michel de Montaigne Affirmation: I study my own behaviors to make myself better. Having intimate knowledge of myself facilitates my efforts at self-improvement. Knowing who I am allows me to see my strengths. It also allows me to [...]
Improve your concentration
At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That’s the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration. Nick Cave One of the biggest issues that keep people from achieving many of their goals is [...]
What makes you tick?
I don’t think I could ever give up music. It’s what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing. Maggie Stiefvater The Army has advised you to go out and be all that you can be. And, while most people try to ascribe to that notion, they are [...]
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 [...]
Musings + Affirmations: I deserve to pamper myself, occasionally. 4-21-13
Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. Joanna Baillie Affirmation: I deserve to pamper myself. I consider myself worth every bit of luxurious treatment I afford myself! I know that I am living in accordance with my life purpose, and that is enough to make me deserving of all the pampering [...]
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