"A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."
J. Paul Getty
Many of us are terrified of failure. We think that if we fail it's the end of the world. We are risk adverse. We won't try anything unless and untill we are pretty sure we will succeed at it. We procrastinate while we think about how to get around all the possible obstacles in our way. We often never get started; or if we do, we get started too late and miss our window of opportunity. And if we do fail, we blame everyone except ourself. We complain about the impossible circumstances. We give up. It is then that we have truly failed.
But everyone fails unless they aren't trying to accomplish anything. Failure is actually an important part of success, because it is only when you fail that you find out what doesn't work. You learn from your mistakes and failures.
A successful person just learns what he can, gets back up and continues. He knows that the failure happened because of his own mistake so he doesn't blame others. He's not afraid to admit his mistakes. He doesn't complain about his circumstances. He knows that his failures are actually helping him narrow down the possibilities for the pathway to success. He actually fails his way to success. No matter how many times he fails, he is still a success because he accepts responsibility for his failures and learns from them about what doesn't work.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Friday, February 27, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Potential
"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,but with what it is still possible for you to do."
Pope John XXIII
What do you spend most of your time thinking about. For most of us it is our fears, our frustrations, and all the ways we tried and failed to get what we want. We notice the negative things in our lives much more than the positive ones. Perhaps that's often because we are searching for some lesson we can learn from these unfortunate occurances that happened to us. But the best time to learn the lesson from something is as it happens.
What if we made an effort to choose what kind of thoughts we will entertain? What would our lives be like if we focused on our hopes and dreams, on our unfulfilled potential and with what it is still possible for us to do? What if we chose to realize that anything is possible for us because we have so much potential that has been unrealized before now? What would we attempt if we knew that it was impossible to fail? Just imagine how much more successful we would be if we only beleived in ourselves and our unlimited possibilites and potential.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Pope John XXIII
What do you spend most of your time thinking about. For most of us it is our fears, our frustrations, and all the ways we tried and failed to get what we want. We notice the negative things in our lives much more than the positive ones. Perhaps that's often because we are searching for some lesson we can learn from these unfortunate occurances that happened to us. But the best time to learn the lesson from something is as it happens.
What if we made an effort to choose what kind of thoughts we will entertain? What would our lives be like if we focused on our hopes and dreams, on our unfulfilled potential and with what it is still possible for us to do? What if we chose to realize that anything is possible for us because we have so much potential that has been unrealized before now? What would we attempt if we knew that it was impossible to fail? Just imagine how much more successful we would be if we only beleived in ourselves and our unlimited possibilites and potential.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Worry
"There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem."
Harold Stephens
In our society, worrying is almost second nature. It is difficult to spend even one day without worrying about some problem. We excuse ourselves by saying that we are concerned about whatever problem is bothering us. But worrying and being concerned are not the same thing.
When you are worried, you take some frightening event that happened somewhere in your past and project it into the future, imagining that it will happen again. It is a kind of faith that the worst case scenario will happen. Many of us go so far as to actively try to determine all the things that could possibly go wrong because we think that if we have a solution for all of them, then we'll be okay when something does go wrong. When we do that, however, we are often almost paralyzed with confusion over how to deal with a situation, and we never get started doing something. We see problems even where none exist.
When you are concerned, you have already seen the situation and you know what is involved in it. You can see the cause of the problem, so it is much easier to see its solution. Waiting until after a problem actually occurs to start dealing with it is a much more effective and efficient way to solve the problem.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Harold Stephens
In our society, worrying is almost second nature. It is difficult to spend even one day without worrying about some problem. We excuse ourselves by saying that we are concerned about whatever problem is bothering us. But worrying and being concerned are not the same thing.
When you are worried, you take some frightening event that happened somewhere in your past and project it into the future, imagining that it will happen again. It is a kind of faith that the worst case scenario will happen. Many of us go so far as to actively try to determine all the things that could possibly go wrong because we think that if we have a solution for all of them, then we'll be okay when something does go wrong. When we do that, however, we are often almost paralyzed with confusion over how to deal with a situation, and we never get started doing something. We see problems even where none exist.
When you are concerned, you have already seen the situation and you know what is involved in it. You can see the cause of the problem, so it is much easier to see its solution. Waiting until after a problem actually occurs to start dealing with it is a much more effective and efficient way to solve the problem.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
One Thing At a Time
"You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment."
Maxwell Maltz
Most of us feel like we must do as many things as possible at the same time. After all, we all know that each of us has only so much time before we die, and we don't even know how much time that is. We raise multi-tasking to an art. To do only one thing at a time seems almost sinful, and a waste of time. But the truth is that doing several things at once is actually less efficient that doing one thing at a time.
When you do several things at once, you can't concentrate fully on any one of them, so your performance isn't very good on all of them. It often takes you longer to do the same amount of tasks too because switching back and forth between tasks before you've finished any of them slows you down more than if you had completed one task before starting the next.
It helps if you have prioritized the most important and the most urgent activities so that you can get them finished first. But even if you haven't it's still best to take one thing at a time and do your best work on it till it's finished and you can put all your attention upon the next task in line. You'll not only get higher quality work done but you'll get more of it completed in the same amount of time too.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Maxwell Maltz
Most of us feel like we must do as many things as possible at the same time. After all, we all know that each of us has only so much time before we die, and we don't even know how much time that is. We raise multi-tasking to an art. To do only one thing at a time seems almost sinful, and a waste of time. But the truth is that doing several things at once is actually less efficient that doing one thing at a time.
When you do several things at once, you can't concentrate fully on any one of them, so your performance isn't very good on all of them. It often takes you longer to do the same amount of tasks too because switching back and forth between tasks before you've finished any of them slows you down more than if you had completed one task before starting the next.
It helps if you have prioritized the most important and the most urgent activities so that you can get them finished first. But even if you haven't it's still best to take one thing at a time and do your best work on it till it's finished and you can put all your attention upon the next task in line. You'll not only get higher quality work done but you'll get more of it completed in the same amount of time too.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Monday, February 23, 2009
Wow!
Last spring I was walking in a park. A short distance ahead of me was a mom and her three-year-old daughter. The little girl was holding on to a string that was attached to a helium balloon.
All of a sudden, a sharp gust of wind took the balloon from the little girl. I braced myself for some screaming and crying. But, no! As the little girl turned to watch her balloon go skyward, she gleefully shouted out, "Wow! I didn't realize it at that moment, but that little girl taught me something. Later that day, I received a phone call from a person with news of an unexpected problem. I felt like responding with "Oh no, what should we do?" But remembering that little girl, I found myself saying, "Wow, that's interesting! How can I help you?" One thing's for sure - life's always going to keep us off balance with its unexpected problems. That's a given. What's not preordained is our response. We can choose to be frustrated or fascinated. No matter what the situation, a fascinated "Wow!" will always beat a frustrated "Oh, no". So the next time you experience one of life's unexpected gusts, remember that little girl and make it a "Wow!" experience. The "Wow!" response always works."
Rob Gilbert
Editor of "Bits & Pieces"
You can learn a great deal from watching small children. Sometimes they seem wiser than we do. Our lives often seem full of frustrating experiences. Life always seems to be throwing us a curveball, and putting a wrench into our plans. But there is never just one way to look at a situation, or just one way to deal with it. We always are making a choice. We can choose to see it as a problem or as an interesting new development. We can say "Oh no" because we are focused on all the extra energy and/or time and/or money we will have to invest to get things on track again, or we can say "Wow, this is an interesting new development. How can I best deal with things as they now are." I know which one I would choose.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
All of a sudden, a sharp gust of wind took the balloon from the little girl. I braced myself for some screaming and crying. But, no! As the little girl turned to watch her balloon go skyward, she gleefully shouted out, "Wow! I didn't realize it at that moment, but that little girl taught me something. Later that day, I received a phone call from a person with news of an unexpected problem. I felt like responding with "Oh no, what should we do?" But remembering that little girl, I found myself saying, "Wow, that's interesting! How can I help you?" One thing's for sure - life's always going to keep us off balance with its unexpected problems. That's a given. What's not preordained is our response. We can choose to be frustrated or fascinated. No matter what the situation, a fascinated "Wow!" will always beat a frustrated "Oh, no". So the next time you experience one of life's unexpected gusts, remember that little girl and make it a "Wow!" experience. The "Wow!" response always works."
Rob Gilbert
Editor of "Bits & Pieces"
You can learn a great deal from watching small children. Sometimes they seem wiser than we do. Our lives often seem full of frustrating experiences. Life always seems to be throwing us a curveball, and putting a wrench into our plans. But there is never just one way to look at a situation, or just one way to deal with it. We always are making a choice. We can choose to see it as a problem or as an interesting new development. We can say "Oh no" because we are focused on all the extra energy and/or time and/or money we will have to invest to get things on track again, or we can say "Wow, this is an interesting new development. How can I best deal with things as they now are." I know which one I would choose.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Happiness
"Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention."
Greg Anderson
Where do you focus your attention? We are neurologically wired to be always looking out for danger. We are always thinking ahead to what may potentially become a problem to us. We ask "What if...happens?" We even assume that because certain things have been a problem for us in the past, then they will continue to do so in the future. It's as though we have a deep faith that things are going to go wrong. And to top it all off, the media constantly bombards us with images of disturbing things, and calls it entertainment. No wonder we're so frightened and upset.
We need to change the focus of our attention. We will never be happy if we are focused on how bad the economy is, or on possible terrorist threats. You will never be happy if you are thinking about how bad your job is or how difficult your teenager is. What we need to do is to focus on what we want. Picture getting along with your teenager and having a job you really enjoy. Picture a thriving economy and peace and good-will around the world. If you can do that, you will be able to find evidence for your vision. And then you will find real happiness.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Greg Anderson
Where do you focus your attention? We are neurologically wired to be always looking out for danger. We are always thinking ahead to what may potentially become a problem to us. We ask "What if...happens?" We even assume that because certain things have been a problem for us in the past, then they will continue to do so in the future. It's as though we have a deep faith that things are going to go wrong. And to top it all off, the media constantly bombards us with images of disturbing things, and calls it entertainment. No wonder we're so frightened and upset.
We need to change the focus of our attention. We will never be happy if we are focused on how bad the economy is, or on possible terrorist threats. You will never be happy if you are thinking about how bad your job is or how difficult your teenager is. What we need to do is to focus on what we want. Picture getting along with your teenager and having a job you really enjoy. Picture a thriving economy and peace and good-will around the world. If you can do that, you will be able to find evidence for your vision. And then you will find real happiness.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Time
"If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got."
Lee Iacocca
What is the most important use of your time? Most of us find that a difficult question to answer. We're inclined to say "Whatever is most urgent". We spend our days reacting to whatever life throws our way, without stopping to think whether it is more important than other activities which are not so urgent. We are often so busy dealing with deadlines and demands at our work that we neglect our family and other important relationships. We are often so busy dealing with emergencies that we neglect our health and well-being.
Only we can determine what is most important to us. But when we make that decision, whether something is urgent or not should not be the main criteria we're using. We need to eliminate those things from our lives completely that are neither urgent or important, and minimize urgent but not important things. We need to purposefully make sure there is plenty of time to attend to the most important things in our life, regardless of what else is going on in our lives. We need to schedule an appointment with ourselves to spend time on our health or our relationships or whatever else is most important, and keep that time no matter what. And once we've made the time, we need to concentrate fully on that one thing and give it all we've got. That's the best way to utilize our time.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Lee Iacocca
What is the most important use of your time? Most of us find that a difficult question to answer. We're inclined to say "Whatever is most urgent". We spend our days reacting to whatever life throws our way, without stopping to think whether it is more important than other activities which are not so urgent. We are often so busy dealing with deadlines and demands at our work that we neglect our family and other important relationships. We are often so busy dealing with emergencies that we neglect our health and well-being.
Only we can determine what is most important to us. But when we make that decision, whether something is urgent or not should not be the main criteria we're using. We need to eliminate those things from our lives completely that are neither urgent or important, and minimize urgent but not important things. We need to purposefully make sure there is plenty of time to attend to the most important things in our life, regardless of what else is going on in our lives. We need to schedule an appointment with ourselves to spend time on our health or our relationships or whatever else is most important, and keep that time no matter what. And once we've made the time, we need to concentrate fully on that one thing and give it all we've got. That's the best way to utilize our time.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Friday, February 20, 2009
Learn
"No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely,positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals."
Brian Tracy
Once you know what your goals are, the first thing you need to do in order to move towards them to to find someone who has already done what you want to do. This is not the hard part; there are how-to books on any subject and biographies of just about anyone who accomplished something really significant, and there are people all around you doing just about anything you could possibly want to know about. The hard part is actually going up to people and asking for help.
We have never been taught to go up to people and ask them how they got started doing what they're doing, or how they accomplished the things they did. Sometimes we are afraid that they will be offended that we asked, or won't want to tell us what we need to know. Sometimes we are afraid that they will think less of us because we don't have our life together as much as we would like. Sometimes we are afraid that they will expect something back from us that we don't have to give.
The truth is that people usually love to talk about their accomplishments, and will feel flattered you asked. Typically the more successful people have been, the more willing they are to help someone else get started. They won't think any the less of you because you're just a beginner. And they often won't expect anything other that you help someone else when you get successful too. If you encounter someone who isn't like this, just look for someone else who is. You'll find them if you look.
Seek out people who have been successful doing what it is that you want to do. You can't make all the mistakes yourself, and you don't want to either. Learn from others, so that you can be as successful as they have been in a much shorter time.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Brian Tracy
Once you know what your goals are, the first thing you need to do in order to move towards them to to find someone who has already done what you want to do. This is not the hard part; there are how-to books on any subject and biographies of just about anyone who accomplished something really significant, and there are people all around you doing just about anything you could possibly want to know about. The hard part is actually going up to people and asking for help.
We have never been taught to go up to people and ask them how they got started doing what they're doing, or how they accomplished the things they did. Sometimes we are afraid that they will be offended that we asked, or won't want to tell us what we need to know. Sometimes we are afraid that they will think less of us because we don't have our life together as much as we would like. Sometimes we are afraid that they will expect something back from us that we don't have to give.
The truth is that people usually love to talk about their accomplishments, and will feel flattered you asked. Typically the more successful people have been, the more willing they are to help someone else get started. They won't think any the less of you because you're just a beginner. And they often won't expect anything other that you help someone else when you get successful too. If you encounter someone who isn't like this, just look for someone else who is. You'll find them if you look.
Seek out people who have been successful doing what it is that you want to do. You can't make all the mistakes yourself, and you don't want to either. Learn from others, so that you can be as successful as they have been in a much shorter time.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Success
"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become."
Jim Rohn
We spend our whole lives chasing after success. We want to become successful. We want to aquire those things that we think will make us happy, and, perhaps most importantly, will show other people that we have been successful so that they will be impressed and think more highly of us. But as soon as we acheive success, as soon as we aquire that object that symbolizes success for us, we promptly find something else we want that symbolizes even greater success for us so we start chasing after success all over again.
Success is not something to be pursued. It does not run away from you; unless of course it sees that you are completely unsuitable for it. A much more effective way to acheive success is to attract it by becoming the kind of person who is successful. What kind of person is successful? It is a person with great integrity and character, and a strong and sincere desire to help other people be successful. It is a person who is happy, confident of their abilities and worth, courageous and who never gives up. This is the kind of person you want to be, in order to attract the success you desire.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Jim Rohn
We spend our whole lives chasing after success. We want to become successful. We want to aquire those things that we think will make us happy, and, perhaps most importantly, will show other people that we have been successful so that they will be impressed and think more highly of us. But as soon as we acheive success, as soon as we aquire that object that symbolizes success for us, we promptly find something else we want that symbolizes even greater success for us so we start chasing after success all over again.
Success is not something to be pursued. It does not run away from you; unless of course it sees that you are completely unsuitable for it. A much more effective way to acheive success is to attract it by becoming the kind of person who is successful. What kind of person is successful? It is a person with great integrity and character, and a strong and sincere desire to help other people be successful. It is a person who is happy, confident of their abilities and worth, courageous and who never gives up. This is the kind of person you want to be, in order to attract the success you desire.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Believe
"The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the
more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious,
will direct us along the path to its fulfillment" -- Earl
Nightingale
What are your most cherished beleifs? What are you absolutely sure about? What are you passionate about. You may not know a lot of your beleifs, since they are buried in your subconscious, but there is a way of telling what they are. Look around you. The ideas we feel most strongly about are revealed in what we see around us. If we beleive that people are dishonest crooks, for example, we are going to be surrounded by a lot of dishonest crooks. If we beleive that people are honest and good, we are going to be surrounded by honest, good people.
This insight can work to your advantage when you know about it. As long as you can establish a cherished beleif in something you want, it will come into your life. But it can also work against you, especially if you aren't aware of it. So many of us say that we want more money, but our beleif and expectation is that rich people are greedy, or that we're not deserving (among other things), so we don't get the money we want because we don't beleive we deserve it or we don't want to become one of those greedy rich people.
Find out what you really beleive, and if that beleif doesn't get you what you want, then replace it with one that does. The good news is that if you beleive that you can get what you want, and that you deserve it, then it will come to you no matter how big a dream you have.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious,
will direct us along the path to its fulfillment" -- Earl
Nightingale
What are your most cherished beleifs? What are you absolutely sure about? What are you passionate about. You may not know a lot of your beleifs, since they are buried in your subconscious, but there is a way of telling what they are. Look around you. The ideas we feel most strongly about are revealed in what we see around us. If we beleive that people are dishonest crooks, for example, we are going to be surrounded by a lot of dishonest crooks. If we beleive that people are honest and good, we are going to be surrounded by honest, good people.
This insight can work to your advantage when you know about it. As long as you can establish a cherished beleif in something you want, it will come into your life. But it can also work against you, especially if you aren't aware of it. So many of us say that we want more money, but our beleif and expectation is that rich people are greedy, or that we're not deserving (among other things), so we don't get the money we want because we don't beleive we deserve it or we don't want to become one of those greedy rich people.
Find out what you really beleive, and if that beleif doesn't get you what you want, then replace it with one that does. The good news is that if you beleive that you can get what you want, and that you deserve it, then it will come to you no matter how big a dream you have.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Conditions
"Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition."
Arthur Rubinstein
People think that they feel happy because...he's coming home, or she will give me a raise, or he will fix the leaky faucet, or she will clean up her room or ... Some condition must be met before they will feel happy. People insist on a specific thing happening, and think that if it doesn't happen they won't be happy. That's a lot of pressure to put on that one specific outcome.
The truth is that when you insist of a particular something happening before you can feel happy, it actually pushes your happiness away. If my being happy is contingent on the boss giving me a raise, then, because I can't guarantee that will actually happen, I am left being afraid that I won't get the raise and end up miserable. Nobody likes a needy person, including God. When you cheerfully ask for something that will make you happy, that's one thing; but when you demand it like your life depended on it, that's a whole different, offensive to God and others, and anxiety producing thing.
Happiness can only be felt when you don't set any conditions. When you don't insist on something, you are free to relax and be happy whether you get it or not. And when you're happy and relaxed, you're more likely to get the thing you want anyway.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Arthur Rubinstein
People think that they feel happy because...he's coming home, or she will give me a raise, or he will fix the leaky faucet, or she will clean up her room or ... Some condition must be met before they will feel happy. People insist on a specific thing happening, and think that if it doesn't happen they won't be happy. That's a lot of pressure to put on that one specific outcome.
The truth is that when you insist of a particular something happening before you can feel happy, it actually pushes your happiness away. If my being happy is contingent on the boss giving me a raise, then, because I can't guarantee that will actually happen, I am left being afraid that I won't get the raise and end up miserable. Nobody likes a needy person, including God. When you cheerfully ask for something that will make you happy, that's one thing; but when you demand it like your life depended on it, that's a whole different, offensive to God and others, and anxiety producing thing.
Happiness can only be felt when you don't set any conditions. When you don't insist on something, you are free to relax and be happy whether you get it or not. And when you're happy and relaxed, you're more likely to get the thing you want anyway.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Monday, February 16, 2009
Stress and Strain
"Instead of trying hard by conscious effort to do the thing by iron-jawed will power, and all the while worrying and picturing to yourself all the things that are likely to go wrong, you simply relax the strain, stop trying to "do it" by strain and effort, picture to yourself the target you really want to hit, and "let" your creative success mechanism take over. "
Dr. Maxwell Maltz
We try so hard. We want so much to do a good job and have everything go perfectly. We want to impress others. This sets up an enormous pressure on ourselves to perform. We are afraid that something will go wrong because we are so pressured to have everything go exactly right. We fight with our task. We imagine all the things that can go wrong, hoping that we can eliminate them if we know what they are. We struggle to complete it perfectly. Sometimes we feel so overwhelmed by all the components of the task, and the need to do them perfectly, that we procrastinate until the window of opportunity has passed by.
It is much better to relax and have faith in God's love for you and ability to help you get your task done. As long as you are clear about what exactly it is that you want to get done, God will help you if you will just let go and trust God. Most of us are so busy thinking that we know the best way to get things done and trying to run around doing things our own way, that we fail to be still long enough to listen to what God, through our intuition, is telling us to do. We are not letting our "creative success mechanism" take over. We are taking action but it is not inspired action, and it is more difficult and takes longer than it needs to. Decide what it is you really want, and then let go and let God.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Dr. Maxwell Maltz
We try so hard. We want so much to do a good job and have everything go perfectly. We want to impress others. This sets up an enormous pressure on ourselves to perform. We are afraid that something will go wrong because we are so pressured to have everything go exactly right. We fight with our task. We imagine all the things that can go wrong, hoping that we can eliminate them if we know what they are. We struggle to complete it perfectly. Sometimes we feel so overwhelmed by all the components of the task, and the need to do them perfectly, that we procrastinate until the window of opportunity has passed by.
It is much better to relax and have faith in God's love for you and ability to help you get your task done. As long as you are clear about what exactly it is that you want to get done, God will help you if you will just let go and trust God. Most of us are so busy thinking that we know the best way to get things done and trying to run around doing things our own way, that we fail to be still long enough to listen to what God, through our intuition, is telling us to do. We are not letting our "creative success mechanism" take over. We are taking action but it is not inspired action, and it is more difficult and takes longer than it needs to. Decide what it is you really want, and then let go and let God.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Relax
"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
Sidney J. Harris
How often do you relax. Personally, I barely know the meaning of the word. Most of us are far too stressed to even think about relaxing. That's why most of us dream of vacationing all the time. We plan our vacations more carefully than we plan our life. Perhaps that's because we see our vacation as the only time we can really live our life.
It is of course when we are stressed that we need to relax the most. When we're calm and peaceful, there's no point in relaxing, no need. But it's when we are stressed, that we forget to relax, we push it aside like it wasn't important. But when we're stressed, we aren't really living, we aren't enjoying our life, and we aren't really being successful. We need to relax so we can get to the point that we can prioritize what's really important in our life, and plan the best way to get the most important things done first and how to pace ourselves to have a balance of activities.
When we are stressed, all we can think about is how many things we have to get done in order to be where we think we should be. We lose our perspective and even our understanding of where we really want to be in the end. We get to a point where all we're doing is spinning our wheels, or racing up the ladder only to find out that it's leaning against the wrong wall. The time to relax is when you are stressed, when you don't have time to relax. You never want to get that stressed because the sheer stress will prevent you from being successful and reaching your goals.
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Sidney J. Harris
How often do you relax. Personally, I barely know the meaning of the word. Most of us are far too stressed to even think about relaxing. That's why most of us dream of vacationing all the time. We plan our vacations more carefully than we plan our life. Perhaps that's because we see our vacation as the only time we can really live our life.
It is of course when we are stressed that we need to relax the most. When we're calm and peaceful, there's no point in relaxing, no need. But it's when we are stressed, that we forget to relax, we push it aside like it wasn't important. But when we're stressed, we aren't really living, we aren't enjoying our life, and we aren't really being successful. We need to relax so we can get to the point that we can prioritize what's really important in our life, and plan the best way to get the most important things done first and how to pace ourselves to have a balance of activities.
When we are stressed, all we can think about is how many things we have to get done in order to be where we think we should be. We lose our perspective and even our understanding of where we really want to be in the end. We get to a point where all we're doing is spinning our wheels, or racing up the ladder only to find out that it's leaning against the wrong wall. The time to relax is when you are stressed, when you don't have time to relax. You never want to get that stressed because the sheer stress will prevent you from being successful and reaching your goals.
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
Do It
"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it.
Then you do something else. The trick is to do something else."
Leonardo da Vinci
This is why it's so important to take action. If you never do anything, you will never learn what fails and what works. Most of what you do will fail, but that's okay. You still need to do it in order to find out what won't work. Sometimes other people can tell you what won't work, but sometimes the only way to really know is to do it yourself.
Naturally, when you find something that works, you will do more of it. You will learn why it works and then how to get things to work in similar situations. And if it works very well, it will work for other people who will be inspired to copy you.
Then you try something new. You don't want to keep doing the same thing all your life, no matter how well it works. You want to find other things that work too. After all the more, and the more varied things you have done that work, the better for everyone. It requires the realization that you were not meant to do only one thing, you were meant to do as many things in as many ways as possible. You never reach your full potential, and certainly not after only your first success. You can never have too much success, or in too many areas. Do something else. Try something new.
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You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it.
Then you do something else. The trick is to do something else."
Leonardo da Vinci
This is why it's so important to take action. If you never do anything, you will never learn what fails and what works. Most of what you do will fail, but that's okay. You still need to do it in order to find out what won't work. Sometimes other people can tell you what won't work, but sometimes the only way to really know is to do it yourself.
Naturally, when you find something that works, you will do more of it. You will learn why it works and then how to get things to work in similar situations. And if it works very well, it will work for other people who will be inspired to copy you.
Then you try something new. You don't want to keep doing the same thing all your life, no matter how well it works. You want to find other things that work too. After all the more, and the more varied things you have done that work, the better for everyone. It requires the realization that you were not meant to do only one thing, you were meant to do as many things in as many ways as possible. You never reach your full potential, and certainly not after only your first success. You can never have too much success, or in too many areas. Do something else. Try something new.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Friday, February 13, 2009
Help
"Successful people are always looking for opportunities
to help others. Unsuccessful people are always
asking, 'What's in it for me?'"
Brian Tracy
Are you always wondering how you can benefit from a situation? What will you get if you do this? What's in it for me? That's a recipe for being unsuccessful, for getting less out of life. The truth is that we all need each other. Nobody can do it all by themselves. When you are focused on yourself, and on what you are going to get out of whatever you do, people sense that, and don't want to help you. After all they want to get something for themselves out of your actions, because we all tend to ask "What's in it for me". If they realize nothing's in it for them, then they'll see no reason to cooperate with you.
Successful people look for opportunities to help others. They know that the more they help others the more they will be helped. The help may not come from the people they helped, but it will come. People are more motivated to help you if they beleive that you have their interests at heart too, that you want them to benefit from the situation too. People will like you more. Your generosity will inspire others to be generous to you too. We all need each other. When you help others, they help you. Everyone wins.
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to help others. Unsuccessful people are always
asking, 'What's in it for me?'"
Brian Tracy
Are you always wondering how you can benefit from a situation? What will you get if you do this? What's in it for me? That's a recipe for being unsuccessful, for getting less out of life. The truth is that we all need each other. Nobody can do it all by themselves. When you are focused on yourself, and on what you are going to get out of whatever you do, people sense that, and don't want to help you. After all they want to get something for themselves out of your actions, because we all tend to ask "What's in it for me". If they realize nothing's in it for them, then they'll see no reason to cooperate with you.
Successful people look for opportunities to help others. They know that the more they help others the more they will be helped. The help may not come from the people they helped, but it will come. People are more motivated to help you if they beleive that you have their interests at heart too, that you want them to benefit from the situation too. People will like you more. Your generosity will inspire others to be generous to you too. We all need each other. When you help others, they help you. Everyone wins.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Adventure
"Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply To the day to day obstacles of life - Facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, Testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, Discovering our own unique potentional."
John Amatt
How much adventure is there in your life? Some of us have no adventure at all. We are afraid to leave our comfort zone. We don't want to take the risk that something new may not work out for us. We would rather stick to the tried and true, to the familiar, even if the familiar is not particularly pleasant.
Some of us have adventure sometimes. Perhaps we seek adventure when we go on vacation because we have got tired of the same old scenery at work and at home. We need a break. We look for something new and different because we know that if we do that for a while we can return to our same routine refreshed. Vacation is a safe place to adventure because it is for the purpose of getting away from the normal routine.
Successful people make adventure a part of their everyday lives. Every day is an adventure. Every day they take risks, try new things, and test their resources. Every day they learn more about their own unique potential. Every day, they really live. They face new challenges and seize new opportunities. They learn and grow. Make your life an adventure so you can learn more about just how much you are really capable of.
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John Amatt
How much adventure is there in your life? Some of us have no adventure at all. We are afraid to leave our comfort zone. We don't want to take the risk that something new may not work out for us. We would rather stick to the tried and true, to the familiar, even if the familiar is not particularly pleasant.
Some of us have adventure sometimes. Perhaps we seek adventure when we go on vacation because we have got tired of the same old scenery at work and at home. We need a break. We look for something new and different because we know that if we do that for a while we can return to our same routine refreshed. Vacation is a safe place to adventure because it is for the purpose of getting away from the normal routine.
Successful people make adventure a part of their everyday lives. Every day is an adventure. Every day they take risks, try new things, and test their resources. Every day they learn more about their own unique potential. Every day, they really live. They face new challenges and seize new opportunities. They learn and grow. Make your life an adventure so you can learn more about just how much you are really capable of.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Plan
"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll
fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they
have planned for you? Not much."
Jim Rohn
Are you doing what you want, or what someone else wants? This is an important distinction because when you're doing what someone else wants, even if you say to yourself that you want it because you want the other person to be happy, it is not what you would choose; it is not your own life path, and it is not what will get you the success you want and deserve. Often people rely on someone else to tell them what they should want. Perhaps it is your parents. Perhaps it is a teacher or a religious leader. Perhaps it is the government. We learn early to do what we are told, to do what someone else says we should do.
It is very important that you design your own life plan. Find something that you are passionate about, excited and enthusiastic; not something that you think you should do in order to look good or impress or satisfy other people. Other people don't have much planned for you. They are effectively using you to reach their own goals. But you want to reach your own goals. You were put here on earth for a specific reason; you have a unique purpose that other people don't even know about.
You must find your own path, instead of relying on others to tell you what it is.
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fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they
have planned for you? Not much."
Jim Rohn
Are you doing what you want, or what someone else wants? This is an important distinction because when you're doing what someone else wants, even if you say to yourself that you want it because you want the other person to be happy, it is not what you would choose; it is not your own life path, and it is not what will get you the success you want and deserve. Often people rely on someone else to tell them what they should want. Perhaps it is your parents. Perhaps it is a teacher or a religious leader. Perhaps it is the government. We learn early to do what we are told, to do what someone else says we should do.
It is very important that you design your own life plan. Find something that you are passionate about, excited and enthusiastic; not something that you think you should do in order to look good or impress or satisfy other people. Other people don't have much planned for you. They are effectively using you to reach their own goals. But you want to reach your own goals. You were put here on earth for a specific reason; you have a unique purpose that other people don't even know about.
You must find your own path, instead of relying on others to tell you what it is.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Change Yourself
"You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself."
Katharine Hepburn
Most of us spend most of our lives wishing we could change other people. We want them to like us. We want them to be like us. We want them to agree with us. We want them to do the same things we would do if we were in their situation. We want them to help us acheive our own goals. We want them to have no faults or annoying characteristics. That's a pretty tall order. Especially since the other person thinks that you should be just like them etc.
You can't change other people. They are there for their own unique purpose just as you are there for yours. It is not up to you to decide what they should be like, and more than it is up to them to decide what you should be like. We all have to live our own lives and be our own person.
The only person you can really correct and change is yourself. Indeed to change yourself in a positive way, to grow, is why you are here on earth. You must correct and change yourself if you are to really live. If everyone would spend as much or more, energy in improving themselves as they do in trying to improve everyone else, the world would be a much better place.
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Katharine Hepburn
Most of us spend most of our lives wishing we could change other people. We want them to like us. We want them to be like us. We want them to agree with us. We want them to do the same things we would do if we were in their situation. We want them to help us acheive our own goals. We want them to have no faults or annoying characteristics. That's a pretty tall order. Especially since the other person thinks that you should be just like them etc.
You can't change other people. They are there for their own unique purpose just as you are there for yours. It is not up to you to decide what they should be like, and more than it is up to them to decide what you should be like. We all have to live our own lives and be our own person.
The only person you can really correct and change is yourself. Indeed to change yourself in a positive way, to grow, is why you are here on earth. You must correct and change yourself if you are to really live. If everyone would spend as much or more, energy in improving themselves as they do in trying to improve everyone else, the world would be a much better place.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Monday, February 9, 2009
Busy
"Most of us are so busy doing what we think we have to that we do not think about what we really want to do."
Robert Percival
What are you busy doing? Most of us are so busy doing things, we have never even thought about what we are doing and where it is likely to get us. We just respond to whatever seems most urgent and necessary. We do the things we think we have to do. Sometimes we think that what we're busy doing is the closest we can get to what we really want, because what we really want is unavailable or only for people who are somehow more deserving and worthy.
We all have some idea in our heads of who we are, and of who we think we should be in order to gain the approval of others. We spend our lives trying to acquire the things that we think we need in order to support those ideas. If I think that I should be learned, I will spend a lot of time in school and get an advanced degree. If I think that I should be kind, I will find a career that lets me develop and show off that side of myself.
But those things are usually not what you really want. What you really want has nothing to do with impressing or pleasing other people. It is about you, not them. Think about what you really want; what you would do if the opinions of others were irrelevant and you were completely capable and deserving of doing anything at all. Then go out and do it.
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Robert Percival
What are you busy doing? Most of us are so busy doing things, we have never even thought about what we are doing and where it is likely to get us. We just respond to whatever seems most urgent and necessary. We do the things we think we have to do. Sometimes we think that what we're busy doing is the closest we can get to what we really want, because what we really want is unavailable or only for people who are somehow more deserving and worthy.
We all have some idea in our heads of who we are, and of who we think we should be in order to gain the approval of others. We spend our lives trying to acquire the things that we think we need in order to support those ideas. If I think that I should be learned, I will spend a lot of time in school and get an advanced degree. If I think that I should be kind, I will find a career that lets me develop and show off that side of myself.
But those things are usually not what you really want. What you really want has nothing to do with impressing or pleasing other people. It is about you, not them. Think about what you really want; what you would do if the opinions of others were irrelevant and you were completely capable and deserving of doing anything at all. Then go out and do it.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Sunday, February 8, 2009
God's Love
"Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof."
Richard Sibbes
Often when we feel down and miserable, we feel like the world is against us, and even God must be punishing us for something. Our feelings are very much tied in with what is going on around us. We have this expectation that things should never go wrong, that everything should go as planned. And when it doesn't, we think that it must be our fault, it must be because we are somehow bad or did something wrong.
That's not how life works. Life doesn't always go as we planned, especially as everyone's plans are different. It doesn't mean that it's your fault, or that you did something wrong, or that God doesn't love you. If there is a day where it rains on your parade, maybe there is another person who is rejoicing that it rained that day. And the rain won't last too long anyway.
Just because it's raining on your parade doesn't mean that God is punishing you. God's love is still there, and will always be there. It's just that you can't see it at this time because there are clouds covering it up. Don't give up on God. God's love for you has nothing to do with whether you feel good or bad. It is there unconditionally and always.
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Richard Sibbes
Often when we feel down and miserable, we feel like the world is against us, and even God must be punishing us for something. Our feelings are very much tied in with what is going on around us. We have this expectation that things should never go wrong, that everything should go as planned. And when it doesn't, we think that it must be our fault, it must be because we are somehow bad or did something wrong.
That's not how life works. Life doesn't always go as we planned, especially as everyone's plans are different. It doesn't mean that it's your fault, or that you did something wrong, or that God doesn't love you. If there is a day where it rains on your parade, maybe there is another person who is rejoicing that it rained that day. And the rain won't last too long anyway.
Just because it's raining on your parade doesn't mean that God is punishing you. God's love is still there, and will always be there. It's just that you can't see it at this time because there are clouds covering it up. Don't give up on God. God's love for you has nothing to do with whether you feel good or bad. It is there unconditionally and always.
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Saturday, February 7, 2009
Promises
"The man who promises everything is sure to fulfill nothing"
Carl Jung
Do you try to satisfy the wants of everyone around you? If you do, you will know how difficult that is. Everyone always wants something different from you and has different expectations of you. They all see you in different ways. We have some idea that we should be able to please everyone around us by doing whatever they ask of us. But you can't help everyone. You can't be all things to all people. You can't be someone you're not. You can only be yourself.
It is much more productive to focus on the unique strengths that you were created with, and ask yourself how can you use those strengths most efficiently to help the most people. By focusing on only a few things, you can improve your performance immensely because you can devote more time and energy on each of them. If you try to do everything anyone wants of you, then the amount of time and energy you can spend on any one of them will be inadequate for doing a satisfactory job.
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Carl Jung
Do you try to satisfy the wants of everyone around you? If you do, you will know how difficult that is. Everyone always wants something different from you and has different expectations of you. They all see you in different ways. We have some idea that we should be able to please everyone around us by doing whatever they ask of us. But you can't help everyone. You can't be all things to all people. You can't be someone you're not. You can only be yourself.
It is much more productive to focus on the unique strengths that you were created with, and ask yourself how can you use those strengths most efficiently to help the most people. By focusing on only a few things, you can improve your performance immensely because you can devote more time and energy on each of them. If you try to do everything anyone wants of you, then the amount of time and energy you can spend on any one of them will be inadequate for doing a satisfactory job.
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Friday, February 6, 2009
Choices
"You have two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."
Denis Waitley
Actually there is another choice at least some of the time, and that is to just leave the situation if you can. But so often, we react to situations by wishing they would go away, or wishing that they had never happened. Wishing they would go away is a complete waste of time, unless we actually take action to change the situation ourself. It is entiredly possible that we are the only person who thinks the situation is unwanted in the first place. Nobody else will do change things for us, especially if they don't even know what we really want. It is true that sometimes we can't change situations, and then we have only one choice and that is to accept the conditions as they exist.
Accepting a bad situation is really difficult for most of us. We resent it. We resist it. We judge it. But often we are simply looking at it the wrong way. Every situation can be seen in many ways. Losing your job could be seen as a disaster, or as an opportunity to find an even better job in your feild or as an opportunity to take inventory and decide what you want to do now. Everything depends on how you look at it. The other advantage of accepting a bad situation is that when you are not focused on the problem and how annoying it is, it allows you to think about the solution, and then you'll find that solution much more easily.
Take responsibility for your life. No matter what happens, either change it or accept it, or leave the situation. Doing anything else is crazy.
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Denis Waitley
Actually there is another choice at least some of the time, and that is to just leave the situation if you can. But so often, we react to situations by wishing they would go away, or wishing that they had never happened. Wishing they would go away is a complete waste of time, unless we actually take action to change the situation ourself. It is entiredly possible that we are the only person who thinks the situation is unwanted in the first place. Nobody else will do change things for us, especially if they don't even know what we really want. It is true that sometimes we can't change situations, and then we have only one choice and that is to accept the conditions as they exist.
Accepting a bad situation is really difficult for most of us. We resent it. We resist it. We judge it. But often we are simply looking at it the wrong way. Every situation can be seen in many ways. Losing your job could be seen as a disaster, or as an opportunity to find an even better job in your feild or as an opportunity to take inventory and decide what you want to do now. Everything depends on how you look at it. The other advantage of accepting a bad situation is that when you are not focused on the problem and how annoying it is, it allows you to think about the solution, and then you'll find that solution much more easily.
Take responsibility for your life. No matter what happens, either change it or accept it, or leave the situation. Doing anything else is crazy.
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Thursday, February 5, 2009
Begin
"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not on this earth for eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake."
Marie Beynon Ray
What are you waiting for? Many of us are waiting for our situations to improve before we can start enjoying life. When I get a better job, I can go on a longer vacation. When the kids have left home, I'll have more time with my husband. When I win the lottery I can buy the boat I've always wanted. When I ... I will be happier. But that's not the way life works.
First of all, whatever you're waiting for may never happen. Nothing is guaranteed to happen in the future except us getting older and that we will eventually die. We aren't on this earth for an eternity, and we don't even know how long we have. We could die tomorrow and then all that we were waiting for would never happen. The only thing we can really depend on in this life is the present moment. Now is the only time we can really act. Tomorrow and yesterday don't really exist. Only humans are even aware of them.
Take advantage of this present moment and start doing what you want to do now. You may not get the chance again tomorrow Don't put off your life. Tomorrow may be too late.
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Marie Beynon Ray
What are you waiting for? Many of us are waiting for our situations to improve before we can start enjoying life. When I get a better job, I can go on a longer vacation. When the kids have left home, I'll have more time with my husband. When I win the lottery I can buy the boat I've always wanted. When I ... I will be happier. But that's not the way life works.
First of all, whatever you're waiting for may never happen. Nothing is guaranteed to happen in the future except us getting older and that we will eventually die. We aren't on this earth for an eternity, and we don't even know how long we have. We could die tomorrow and then all that we were waiting for would never happen. The only thing we can really depend on in this life is the present moment. Now is the only time we can really act. Tomorrow and yesterday don't really exist. Only humans are even aware of them.
Take advantage of this present moment and start doing what you want to do now. You may not get the chance again tomorrow Don't put off your life. Tomorrow may be too late.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Complicated
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
Confucious
Is your life complicated? We tend to judge how successful we are by how much money we have, and we know other people judge how much money we have by how many things we have. But having a lot of things is not always a good idea. And it won't always make us happy. It will, in fact, make our lives needlessly complicated. We will have to find a place to put all those things, and we will have to organize them so we can find them easily. We will have to insure them and worry about someone stealing them. We have to worry about them getting lost or broken. This is not real success.
Life is actually simple. We don't need that much to live. As long as we have a roof over our heads and food in our stomach and people to talk to and a way to get around, we have the basics of a good life. We don't need a Jaguar to drive around in, we just want it. All we really need is a reliable vehicle that can get us where we're going, even if it's just the public bus. Don't complicate your life so much that it makes you miserable. Ask yourself if you really need the things you think you must have in order to be, and look, successful. You probably don't.
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Confucious
Is your life complicated? We tend to judge how successful we are by how much money we have, and we know other people judge how much money we have by how many things we have. But having a lot of things is not always a good idea. And it won't always make us happy. It will, in fact, make our lives needlessly complicated. We will have to find a place to put all those things, and we will have to organize them so we can find them easily. We will have to insure them and worry about someone stealing them. We have to worry about them getting lost or broken. This is not real success.
Life is actually simple. We don't need that much to live. As long as we have a roof over our heads and food in our stomach and people to talk to and a way to get around, we have the basics of a good life. We don't need a Jaguar to drive around in, we just want it. All we really need is a reliable vehicle that can get us where we're going, even if it's just the public bus. Don't complicate your life so much that it makes you miserable. Ask yourself if you really need the things you think you must have in order to be, and look, successful. You probably don't.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Forget
"Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad."
Christina Rossetti
What do you remember? Do you remember all the mean things people have said to you? Or all the unkind things they did to you? Do you remember all the days when it rained on your parade? Do you remember the stupid things Brittany Spears has done?
Why is it that you remember all these unpleasant things? They are all over with so why are you hanging on to them? Forget them. Focus on the present.
Sometimes there is something that you can do right now to remedy those bad situations. Perhaps you just need to communicate better with someone. Perhaps forgiveness is what is required. Sometimes there is nothing you can do now or in the future, and you just need to move onto something else. As they say "There's no use crying over spilt milk". Why ruin your present and future over something that is finished and done? Don't remember and be sad. Just forget it, smile, and focus your attention on what you need to do right now.
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Christina Rossetti
What do you remember? Do you remember all the mean things people have said to you? Or all the unkind things they did to you? Do you remember all the days when it rained on your parade? Do you remember the stupid things Brittany Spears has done?
Why is it that you remember all these unpleasant things? They are all over with so why are you hanging on to them? Forget them. Focus on the present.
Sometimes there is something that you can do right now to remedy those bad situations. Perhaps you just need to communicate better with someone. Perhaps forgiveness is what is required. Sometimes there is nothing you can do now or in the future, and you just need to move onto something else. As they say "There's no use crying over spilt milk". Why ruin your present and future over something that is finished and done? Don't remember and be sad. Just forget it, smile, and focus your attention on what you need to do right now.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Monday, February 2, 2009
Obstacles
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."
B.C. Forbes
Is there something that is preventing you from acheiving your dreams? Perhaps you can't get started because you don't have any money. Or because you haven't had the right education. Or because you were born on the wrong side of town. Or because your family doesn't approve of what you want to do. All of these obstacles have been encountered and successfully overcome by the people who have done really great things.
Your dream must be bigger than your obstacles, since your attention will naturally be focused on what seems most important to you in the moment. If your problems seem too great and your goal not that important, you will be more focused on your problems and they really will become obstacles. On the other hand if your goal is much more significant to you than your obstacles are, then, as they say, "If you are looking at the sunlight, you don't notice the shadows.
Make your goal more important than any obstacles you have. There is a way to get around almost any obstacle, and if you are motivated enough, if you are focused on the solution rather than the problem, you will find it.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
B.C. Forbes
Is there something that is preventing you from acheiving your dreams? Perhaps you can't get started because you don't have any money. Or because you haven't had the right education. Or because you were born on the wrong side of town. Or because your family doesn't approve of what you want to do. All of these obstacles have been encountered and successfully overcome by the people who have done really great things.
Your dream must be bigger than your obstacles, since your attention will naturally be focused on what seems most important to you in the moment. If your problems seem too great and your goal not that important, you will be more focused on your problems and they really will become obstacles. On the other hand if your goal is much more significant to you than your obstacles are, then, as they say, "If you are looking at the sunlight, you don't notice the shadows.
Make your goal more important than any obstacles you have. There is a way to get around almost any obstacle, and if you are motivated enough, if you are focused on the solution rather than the problem, you will find it.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Self
"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action"
John Dewey
Your self is continously changing. You are not the same person today as you were yesterday, or even a few minutes ago. Most of us picture ourselves the way we were in the past, and when we picture ourselves in the future, it usually is the same, just older. Some of us even wish we were still the way we were in the past, when we were young and free. But the only way to stay the same as you were is to not do anything, which is not living.
You are, in your day to day and even minute to minute actions, forming your self. Who you are depends on what you do. If you choose to do immoral things, you will become an immoral person, who then does even more immoral things. It becomes a vicious circle. If however you choose to do great things, you will become a great person, who then will do even greater things. It's all up to you. Personally, I would choose the latter option.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
John Dewey
Your self is continously changing. You are not the same person today as you were yesterday, or even a few minutes ago. Most of us picture ourselves the way we were in the past, and when we picture ourselves in the future, it usually is the same, just older. Some of us even wish we were still the way we were in the past, when we were young and free. But the only way to stay the same as you were is to not do anything, which is not living.
You are, in your day to day and even minute to minute actions, forming your self. Who you are depends on what you do. If you choose to do immoral things, you will become an immoral person, who then does even more immoral things. It becomes a vicious circle. If however you choose to do great things, you will become a great person, who then will do even greater things. It's all up to you. Personally, I would choose the latter option.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
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