SELF IMPROVEMENT AND MOTIVATION

How would you advise yourself if you were someone else? If you could stand back and look objectively at your own life for a few hours or a few days, would that change the way you live it? It’s easy to get so caught up in the challenges, dramas and emotions of your own immediate situation that you lose your sense of the bigger picture. So in your mind, step out of the box you’re in and look at your life from a new perspective. You’re likely to see valuable resources and opportunities that have been there all along, but that you had never noticed before. You may also notice habits, priorities, worries or compulsions that are just plain foolish. Put some distance between your demanding ego and your thinking mind. Give some truly objective consideration to all the assumptions you make and to all those things you do without even thinking twice. You are the world’s leading expert on you. Yet most of that expertise goes to waste because of all the knowledge of yourself that you’ve taken for g...

Today is your opportunity to put more life into your life. Instead of just watching, waiting, wondering and wishing, choose to live as joyfully as you can imagine, right now. Let go of the comfortable yet limiting assumptions about what you can and cannot do. Decide what will fulfill your unique purpose today, and get busy making it happen. You’ve put a lot of effort into getting to this point, to this day, to this moment and place. So take this opportunity to make the most of it. You have dreams and visions about how life can be even better than it has already been. Give life and action to those dreams, and fulfill those visions starting right here where you are. When was the last time you enjoyed some genuine fun? Make the choice right now to have a whole lot of fun by finding new ways to put some fresh, authentic living into your world. This is your chance to put more life into your life. Take the chance, jump into the possibilities, and feel the richness as the living of your life ...

Think About Your Dreams As it happens, the average person talks to himself in a negative way. As much as 94 percent of your inner dialogue tends to be about the things you fear, your worries, the people you're angry at, your problems, your concerns and so on. You have to consciously keep your words, your inner dialogue, consistent with what you wish to accomplish. The Most Powerful Antidote Psychologists have proven that the words, "I can do it," are the antidote to the fear of failure that often holds you back from trying. Repeat these words over and over to yourself whenever you feel fearful or doubtful about anything that you want to attempt. Say very enthusiastically to yourself, "I can do it, I can do it, I can do it!" When you start saying, "I can do it, I can do it," you drive that message deep into your subconscious mind. This message lowers your fears and builds your self-confidence. Make A Million! Another thing you can say to yourself is, ...

Life is full of possibilities, so full that it’s insanely ridiculous. Yet those possibilities are meaningless unless you do something with them. Don’t be content to merely gather, collect and store possibilities. Take the best ones and bring them to life. If you attempt to consider all the possibilities, you’ll be completely overwhelmed. Instead, focus in each moment on just one good possibility, and make it happen. Every person, every place, every situation, every good idea has potential. The important thing, though, is not potential, but getting results. Take a few of those great possibilities and turn them into great results. It’s fun, it’s rewarding, and it can be habit forming, in a good way. As great and numerous as the possibilities may be, ultimately they’re not what really matter. Live those possibilities, and you’ll turn them into pure gold.

Don’t sell life short. Don’t sell yourself short. Everywhere you go there are opportunities for new richness. In everything you do there’s a way to make a difference. Nothing in life is really plain or ordinary because life itself is so extraordinary. You have life, and the chance to do beautiful, amazing things with it, right here, right now. The particular path you’ve traveled has never been duplicated in the history of the universe. Feel the value of that special perspective, and make use of it to give the world new meaning. Whatever may have happened in your past, you have a uniquely promising future. Today is your opportunity to start living that future, to experience the fulfillment of that promise. Dream big, expect the best, and then put forth your highest efforts in the service of those dreams and expectations. Act as if life’s greatest magnificence is yours to live, for it is, the moment you choose it

What you think of life plays an essential role in what you do with your life. Your thoughts can lock you in a prison of mediocrity or they can push you in each moment to be your spectacular best.  If you think the task will be difficult, tedious, frustrating or painful, it will be. If you think there’s something valuable and enriching to be found in each day, in each situation, in each action, there will be.  Your thoughts decide the course of this day. Even with a whole world of other influences, your thoughts take precedent over how you live.  If you think every bad thing that happens to you is somebody else’s fault, you strip yourself of the ability to do anything positive. If you think of yourself as ultimately responsible no matter who does what, you will consistently take yourself to beautiful, fulfilling places.  Objective reality is the way it is. What you think about that reality determines what you accomplish with it and how you live.  There is a way t...

If the day starts off with disappointment or frustration, start again. Take a few seconds to re-boot your attitude to a more positive and effective one. What happened before does not have to drag down what is happening now. Look in the direction you wish to proceed and let go of everything else. Plenty of people can be annoying but you don’t have to be annoyed. All sorts of situations can be frustrating but you don’t have to be frustrated. Rise above all that. There is great, unique value in your life and that value deserves to be expressed and experienced by you, here, today. You have love to give, joy to live, achievements to bring to the world, and a whole lot of other important things to do. Put your energy into what lifts you up and pushes you forward. The world is as it is, and you can decide to be better for it, more motivated, more determined and more effective. As often as necessary, take the opportunity to start again, and bring your special goodness to all of life.