SELF IMPROVEMENT AND MOTIVATION

The problem is not that there’s too much to do. The problem is that it can be difficult to see the point of it all.  You are amazingly skilled and highly capable. Yet without a clear, persistent and meaningful direction, you’re not going to be very effective.  For a moment, put all the stuff that needs to be done out of your mind. Peacefully step back and reacquaint yourself with what’s most important to you.  You have your life, and those you love. You have interests, passions, longings, values, things you find funny, things you find fascinating, and things you care deeply about.  With a rich sense of what really matters to you, choose to see a clearly defined direction forward. Now is your time to live with purpose, to express to all of life who you truly are.  Though the problems and responsibilities will not just go away, you can deal with them from a higher, more empowered perspective. Get clear on your direction, and you become more positive and effective ...

Choose to hope and there will be hope. Choose to love and there will be love. Seek out and appreciate life’s beauty, and you will find it in abundance. Decide to be joyful, and you will experience joy. There is much in this world that is out of your control. And yet, you can precisely control how you feel about it and what you do with it. There may be many good things you do that no one else appreciates or even notices. And yet, you will know, and you will benefit from creating new goodness in the world. Welcome what is, welcome what comes, and choose to put some of your own positive energy into it. The more energetic you are, the more energy you will create. Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, whatever you have, whomever you’re with, you have a choice. Choose in your own way to live richly in every moment.

Just because someone is rude or petty to you is not a reason for you to act the same way. Instead, take the opportunity to rise above the pettiness to a more powerful and effective level.  You never truly win by fighting. You win by being bigger than the fight.  Rudeness and hostility are unmistakable signs of weakness and insecurity. Don’t weaken yourself by giving in to them.  Choose honest, honorable, benevolent objectives and pursue them with respect, positive action, diligence and understanding. Rather than letting small-minded people pull you down, push forward with integrity and commitment to goodness.  Resist the temptation to be drawn into meaningless arguments, and feel yourself growing stronger and more confident. Live your values in a positive, purposeful way and live beyond the useless squabbles.  Life is too precious to waste even a moment of it on someone else’s misguided negativity. Be bigger than the fight, and spend your life in the service of ...

What if you woke up each day clearly remembering everything in your past without being emotionally hindered by any of it? What if you could treat each new moment as a fresh opportunity, free of outdated assumptions, resentment, anger, regret or doubt? In fact, you can. You can choose what to think, and even how to feel.  In this moment, and every moment, you can think of your highest goals as achievable. You can feel passionate about living with positive purpose, and feel fully empowered to do so.  You can view the problems not as permanent barriers but rather as pathways for meaningful achievement. You can see the disappointments not as excuses to give up, but as reasons to push forward.  Your past can inform you, inspire you, and help you to understand who you are. Yet it never has to hold you back.  Right now is your opportunity to move decisively toward what you know is right. Now is when you create the future, unhindered by the past. 

Open yourself up to new possibilities by letting go of old, worthless habits and assumptions. Open yourself up to new richness by remembering how good life can be when you let yourself live it fully. You are truly unique and special. To fulfill the unique possibilities that are yours, you must allow them and act on them. It is easy to get stuck in a familiar, comfortable rut, and to dismiss any new possibilities as being too much trouble. However, those possibilities will give you massive amounts of fresh energy and enthusiasm, so don’t let them pass you by. Open up to the new possibilities that come with each new day, each new situation, each new idea, and every person you encounter. As you move steadily and unavoidably forward in time, experience the richness available along the way. You’re never too young or too old to fully live the moment you’re in. You’re never too rich or too poor, too well informed or too ill-informed to grab the great possibilities that are right in front of y...

Think of what you can do today to show yourself that your life really means something. Think of what you can do today to get yourself refreshingly outside your comfort zone.  Challenges and new situations will put you a little on edge and make you a bit uncomfortable. And as such, they will empower you greatly.  You can do much more than you now imagine you can do. Let yourself find out what that is.  There’s more to life than speculating about what you might be able to do, and wondering whether or not you can. At some point you must find out for yourself.  Give yourself a little push into something that will challenge you in a meaningful way. Jump in and get busy transforming what you wish for and what you dream about into what is.  Discover how truly purposeful, creative, capable and effective you can be. Feel how much stronger and how much more alive you can become. 

Life is truly magical and you can experience the magic in every moment. Life is magical and that magic is here and now. To experience the magic, you don’t have to divorce yourself from reality. In fact, to know life’s magic is to know reality at its highest level. There’s no need to set things up in a certain way in order to enjoy life’s magic. All that’s needed is to live with an appreciation for the magic that is always there. Life’s magic is not a denial of reality. It is a deeper and more thankful understanding of what is real and present in your world. The real magic of life is not a trick or a supernatural phenomenon. It is in the fact that you can see, feel, think, choose, live and love. The magic of life is life itself, the very life that you experience in each moment. Live the magic, for the magic is you.

Consider, decide, and do. Think about what’s most important to you, and then put those thoughts into action.  Take notice of the doubts and fears, learn what they have to teach, and then let them go. Make the commitment to move forward no matter what, and honor that commitment each day.  Achievement is challenging but not particularly complicated. It’s a matter of consistently putting your values, goals, desires and dreams into action.  It’s up to you to make your life the way you want it to be. Every day is filled with opportunities for you to make meaningful progress.  Don’t settle for being overcome with regret, wondering what might have been. Use this day, this month, this year to create the best of what you know can be.  Consider what truly matters, decide with passion and commitment to go for it, and do what you must do to make it happen. Today is your time to live with purpose, so go ahead and make it count. 

A very good day, Some of the greatest lessons are taught by children. The following strings of thoughts can also be applied to that line. Life can be enjoyable if we become aware of the necessity of variety. A child has the desire to have and appreciate variety in life. It does not think about the silliness or magnanimity of its thoughts about variety but just goes seeking for it.Anyone who has observed a child for just five minutes would attest the fact that the child is continuously seeking variety and change. For a child, life is that particular moment only. It delves into the endless possibilities of finding variety in its day. No wonder children are the happiest in the world.As we grow up, we somehow tend to become content with routines and seriousness. · We run to our office without giving a thought about the cool breeze that morning. · We gulp down our tea without even thinking how wonderful it is to taste and feel the refreshing experience of tea. · We r...

Relax your mind and calm your thoughts. Let go of the frustrations, anxieties, and judgments, and just be.  Just be, and feel the miracle of your own existence. Just be, and feel the spark of joy that’s deep within you.  Focus on that joy and allow it to grow ever more present in your awareness. Feel that joy and see it flowing out from you into all of life. Let go of the need to struggle, and simply let yourself be. Let go of the urge to make things this way or that, and enjoy the beauty of the way things are. There is certainly much you can do to make a positive difference in life. And you’ll do it far more effectively when you live and act with a peaceful spirit. For this precious moment, just be, and feel the power of your own authentic purpose. Just be, and gain new energy with which to live and express that purpose.

If you’re too easily distracted, don’t blame the distractions. Instead, consider how you could make your work more meaningful and compelling. Rather than fighting against the distractions, overpower them. Seek to put things in your life and your work that are so interesting and captivating that the plain old ordinary distractions are left with no way to compete. It’s much easier for the little, meaningless things to distract you if you’re subconsciously looking for things to distract you. The more you focus on what’s truly important in your life, the less you’ll be knocked off your task by distractions. Imagine what you could focus on that would get you totally engaged and absorbed and immune to just about any kind of distraction. Imagine what things would be so thoroughly meaningful to you that it would be nearly impossible to pull you away from them. You owe it to yourself to follow a strong and compelling purpose. You owe it to life to work toward the achievement of those things tha...

You are here today, alive and aware. You have power and influence, skills and abilities right here and now, so put them to good use right here and now. You can get yourself all wrapped up in a tangled mess of inaction by wondering and worrying about what might happen. Choose instead to get yourself passionate and enthusiastic about what will happen when you make the effort to make a positive difference. You are here today, so do something great with it. You are here today, in a world of beauty and possibility and opportunity, so seize the moment, this one right here, and make it count. What do you really, truly want to do and how to you really, truly want to feel? What is so massively important to you that nothing else really matters in comparison? Challenge yourself to honestly answer those questions. Then, pick yourself up and go do all you can to make those desirable and meaningful things a reality in your world. You are here today, living in an authentic one-of-a-kind opportunity t...

Enjoy the diligent, focused, challenging work, and enjoy the carefree, lighthearted, playful times. Enjoy the moments of quiet solitude as well as the times when you’re surrounded by the stimulating energy of the people in your life. Enjoy giving love and being loved. Enjoy making a difference and enjoy the assistance and collaboration of others who make a difference in your life. Enjoy the things you’re confident of as well as the things that are a mystery. Enjoy diving into life’s pleasures and enjoy working through life’s problems. Enjoy the warm sun on your skin and enjoy the cold wind against your face. Enjoy being confident and enjoy being surprised.  The more of life you enjoy, and treasure, and appreciate, the more access you’ll have to life’s best possibilities. When you can find something to sincerely enjoy, you have found a pathway to great value and fulfillment. Today is a unique, one-of-a-kind experience, filled with opportunities for all different kinds of richness. S...

The questions and mysteries give you a chance to learn. The challenges give you an opportunity to make a positive difference.  The people with whom you disagree give you a way to see life from a different perspective. The disappointments you endure can put you on a path toward becoming more determined and effective.  Instead of complaining about what’s negative, you can look for what’s positive. Instead of feeling sorry for yourself, you can feel fortunate to be where you are.  When there’s nothing interesting or exciting going on, you have the chance to exercise and strengthen your imagination. When the world feels gray and dreary, you can find unique, original beauty in the unlikeliest of places. Every day, life gives you options. What you choose from those options and what you do with them, determines where you are at the end of the day. Right now, you have many options. Choose the most positive, life-affirming, interesting, loving and fulfilling ones, and the reality ...