SELF IMPROVEMENT AND MOTIVATION

It’s great to make detailed plans, but you can’t possibly figure out every detail in advance. Get going, keep going, with a clear destination always in mind, and you’ll discover how to make your way there. Much of the value of any achievement comes from all the new things you learn along the way. So even if you’re not sure you’re ready to start, go ahead and start. Embrace experience as your teacher. Welcome the challenges that will strengthen every part of you. Speculation, pondering and learning from others all have their place. At some point, though, you must put it all into practice and work your own way to the goal you have chosen. Make that point sooner rather than later. Give more of your life the benefit of your real-life experience. Demolish your doubts with action. Go ahead, get started, and enjoy discovering how great you can do.

Tell yourself something often enough, and it becomes truth for you. What are you telling yourself over and over again? If you tell yourself again and again that you can’t do something, you’re never going to do it. Even when you are perfectly able, you can convince yourself you’re absolutely not. As you look at your world and make your way through it, whatever you’re repeating to yourself will have significant consequences. That can be a big burden, or a grand opportunity. There’s no benefit in deluding yourself to believe you have superhuman powers. Yet there’s great benefit in constantly reminding yourself of the real and accessible powers you do have. You can think, you can act, and you can focus your actions toward a specific purpose. You can feel, understand, create, adapt to new situations, build, improve, love and enjoy. When you think to yourself and talk to yourself, think of all the good you’ve done and all the good you can now do. Remind yourself, again and again, that you ca...

There’s some little something you can do, some little change you can make today, that will make your life better. Go ahead, give yourself a positive gift, and do it.  There’s something you know you’ve been doing, or neglecting to do, that’s been holding you back. This is your opportunity to change it.  You don’t have to change the whole world to make a noticeable difference in your life. Even a small change in what you do can make a big improvement in the way you feel. As comfortable as your old habit may be, it’s not taking you where you want to go. Very soon, you can be just as comfortable, and a whole lot more satisfied, with a new, more positive habit. Life is what you make it, and all the little choices add up. Improve the quality of those choices, and you will improve the quality of your situation. Get the moments of this day working in your favor by making more of your actions work in your favor. Improve some little something you do, and experience the power you have to...

Think, but don’t overthink. Consider the implications before you act, but don’t agonize and analyze so deeply that you fail to make anything happen. Think, then do what you think about. You cannot solve every problem in advance, so accept that you’ll have to make some adjustments as you go along. Figure out what you intend to do, but don’t hold yourself back while you figure it all out. Jump in and get started, and use your powerful mind in combination with your effective actions. Stop fretting and worrying about what might or might not happen. Get busy and find out. Commit to a course of well-considered action and then do everything in your power to honor your commitment. That’s the path to achievement. Imagine, and then create real, live substance out of what you imagine. Think, act, live, and enjoy the richness of a positive, purposeful existence.

Precisely because dissatisfaction is so uncomfortable, it energizes your life. When you are not satisfied with the way things are, in that feeling of dissatisfaction is the energy to change. You can tap into that energy to change yourself, or the situation, or both. In every case, you are looking directly at an opportunity for significant improvement. Experiencing what you don’t want can drive you to create what you do want. The next time that happens, jump at the opportunity. Take hold of the energy of your dissatisfaction. Immerse your awareness in the focus, in the drive, in the determination it gives you. Then look out at the world with joy, with gratitude and with love for all that is. See the possibilities in a new, empowering light, and let them push you into action. Feel your dissatisfaction, and resolve its discomfort by growing, building, creating, by becoming smarter, wiser, more capable and generous. In the energy of your dissatisfaction is your opportunity to uplift the wh...

Where do you find happiness? The only place you ever find happiness is where you are. Happiness is not in some far off, fondly imagined time or place or situation. The happiness you enjoy is the happiness you choose to enjoy in the here and now. You possess the very real ability to be happy just as you are. When you utilize that ability, when you choose happiness, you inject positive power into everything you do. Are you disappointed, frustrated, feeling ineffective and unappreciated? Choose to be happy, and feel how quickly that all changes. Being happy for no reason, or even when there are compelling reasons not to be, is not naive. It is a shrewd and effective way to energize your life. Go ahead and empower yourself with happiness. Be happy with your situation, and it will most definitely improve, because you will improve it.

Life can be amazing, so by all means be amazed. But don’t be so amazed that it immobilizes you.  Be amazed at the possibilities, at all the great things you can do. Then get beyond your amazement and get busy actually doing.  Be amazed at what others have achieved, at what you yourself have done, and at the beauty the universe constantly proffers. Then find something new and great and wonderful to do with it all.  Life is amazing and you can make it even more so. Be amazed, yet don’t ever let yourself be satisfied with mere amazement.  Drink in the wonder and beauty of life. Let it all inspire you to create greater beauty.  The journey is long, worthwhile, fulfilling and amazing. Be amazed, and keep going.