Big Dreams are your Best Motivators

He who dreams most, does most.


The starting point of a journey is a dream, a vision of some far-off possibilities. It must be exciting and moving. Enthusiasm and hope about where you are heading allows you to set some realistic goals and benchmarks to set you on a course towards your dreams.


Passion fuels the perseverance needed to excel at your endeavor. It will keep you motivated to take risks and will give you the desire to keep growing, learning, innovating and confronting challenges, setbacks and roadblocks along the way to your goals.


Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson

Do not be guided by your fears.

“A ship in harbor is safe—but that is not what ships were built for.”
~ John A. Shedd, Salt from My Attic, 1928 

The Value of Time
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To understand the value of one year:
Ask a student who has failed a final exam.

To understand the value of one month:
Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.

To understand the value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To understand the value of one hour:
Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.

To understand the value of one minute:
Ask the person who has missed the train, bus or plane.

To understand the value of one second:
Ask someone who has survived an accident.

To understand the value of one millisecond:
Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics.

Time waits for no one. Treasure every moment you have.

Daily Action.

Remember to seek progress over perfection and seek to do a little

every day to achieve your goals.

Stay Young Now

This is a good way to live life if you can!


HOW TO STAY YOUNG

1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. 

Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay 'them'

2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.

3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. 

Never let the brain idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.'

4. Enjoy the simple things.

5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, 

who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love , whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, 

music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. 

If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; 

to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.


AND ALWAYS REMEMBER :


Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, 

but by the moments that take our breath away.

We all need to live life to its fullest each day!!!

Always remember:

 

Always remember:

The secret of making something work in our lives is first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Life Is...

Life is...

by Mother Theresa

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it. 

Life is life, fight for it. 

Napolean Hill and Sobriety

Napolean Hill and Sobriety

I've been reading Napoleon Hill books lately. He was a speech writer for U.S. President Harry Truman in the last Depression. He wrote some famous motivational books and is considered one of the founders of Positive Psychology. This type of thinking has many detractors but "foul water will quench fire", in other words, I look to efficacy as my metric. *

He has a 3 step process to achieve your goals:

1. Write a clear description of your one major desire, i.e., Sobriety

2. Write a precise statement of what you intend to give for your sobriety, i.e., strict adherence to the 12 steps of A.A.

3. Memorize both statements and begin repeating them to yourself hourly.

Whatever your mind feeds upon, your mind attracts to you. You need definiteness of purpose and a clear picture of what you want from life. Sobriety is number one because without it, all else fails.

This may look like brainwashing yourself and that's probably what you are doing to undo all the negative messages you have given yourself over the years.

He has a prayer of thankfulness you say a few times a day:

"Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but for more wisdom with which to accept and use wisely the riches I was given at birth in the form of the ability to direct my mind to ends of my own choice."

The riches you can enjoy if you take possession of your own mind and direct it to ends of your own choice include:

Sound health

Peace of mind

A labor of love of your choosing

Freedom from fear and worry

A positive mental attitude

Material riches of your choice in the quantity you desire.

On the other hand, the penalties if you do not take possession of your mind are:

Ill health

Fear and worry

Indecision and doubt

Frustration and discouragement Poverty and want

And a litany of evils like envy greed jealousy, anger, hatred and superstition.

Quotes to live by:

The great philosopher Thomas Carlyle once wrote, "Let each become all that he was created capable of being." I can't think of a better definition of success. Life challenges us every day to develop our capabilities to the fullest.


Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
-Jawaharal Nehru

Don't be afraid of the space between your
dreams and reality. If you can dream it,
you can make it so.

"If one advances confidently in the direction of
his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he
has imagined, he will meet with a success
unexpected in common hours."
- H.D. Thoreau

The Kinks - Lola

10 Most Important Things They Didn't Teach You In School

http://www.cracked.com/article_18611_the-10-most-important-things-they-didnt-teach-you-in-school_p2.html

10 Most Important Things They Didn't Teach You In School


Many of you will get very depressed in your 20s, and some of you will stay that way the rest of your lives. Over the years your garage band will break up, you career dream will fall through, a girl will break your heart, you'll be unhappy with your body, you'll lose your parents, your favorite pet will die, you will endure at least one very terrible injury that requires hospitalization and breaks new boundaries for what kind of pain you thought was possible.

The reason why this will lead to depression, where it may not have done so for an equivalent person 200 years ago, is because you were raised on illogical stories where things always work out for the main character for utterly arbitrary reasons. Han Solo can shoot straight, but none of the bad guys can – even though they train more. John McClane beats the terrorists because he has toughness and perseverance – something the bad guys lack, even though they should be equally desperate. If a guy and a girl are right for each other, they always wind up together, careers and geography and personal hang-ups be damned.

Here's the problem: these fantasies were created by adults, as a means of escape from the real world. You, however, have been watching them since you were five – for most of us these were our first impressions of how the adult world works, even if on a subconscious level. You had no context to realize they were bullshit. It sounds frivolous, but that doesn't change the fact that some of you reading this will not survive the long process of learning how different the real world is.

If it helps, try to remember that you're still one of the one percent of humanity that was born in a time and place where there is such a thing as anesthesia.