SELF IMPROVEMENT AND MOTIVATION

If you would like to feel good about today, go ahead. You can choose to feel whatever you want to feel. It may seem that your feelings are dictated by the situation, but that does not necessarily have to be the case. You can decide to transform the situation so it aligns with your chosen feelings and expectations. Feelings are a powerful part of your life, and you can take control of that power. You can base your feelings more on inside intentions than on outside influences. You don’t have to arrange the world in a particular way just to create a desired feeling. Instead, go ahead, allow the feeling, and then let the positive power of that feeling flow into your world. Feel by choice, not by chance. Choose your feelings based not on what has happened, but based on what you wish to do with all that’s now available to you. You are empowered to make life great, so feel that power. Feel the positive possibilities of now, and experience yourself bringing them to life.

In this moment, there is nothing to worry about. All is as it is, and worry will not change it in the slightest. In this moment, hope is bright, alive, filling every corner of existence. Now, you can let go of what troubles you and allow the best of what inspires you. Now, there is no outside influence that can prevent you from giving your best to life. Go ahead and live, love, create, feel, explore, and be fully present in the shimmering sea of abundance and possibility that is now. There is beauty, here in front of you, that has never been before and will never be again. Enjoy its unique gift, just because you can. You are more powerful than you have ever realized. Use that power for good, and feel it grow. All is possible, so choose what is right. And live it with a passion that delights the whole world.

If you have to be someone you don’t want to be in order to attain success, is that really success?  If you must compromise your values to get what you want, is that really what you want? What people, ideas, values, passions, interests, places and experiences can you give your unconditional love to? Remind yourself often to focus your awareness, your efforts and your energy on those things. Life in each moment is a precious opportunity. Give the real, important stuff the attention it deserves. If you’re getting too stressed out, or frustrated, or cynical, perhaps it’s because you’re too focused on things that fill you with negativity. Step back, think of what truly matters, and put yourself in a more positive mental environment. You cannot make your life full by putting more and more empty, meaningless things into it. Instead, choose quality, choose substance, and choose to do the things that excite and fulfill the authentic you. Right now is your sole oppor...

Do you realize how much of a difference you have made in life, and continue to make? Very likely, the answer is a resounding no. You cannot possibly know all the consequences and ramifications of your actions in the lives of other people. Each thing you do takes on a life of its own and can affect people far removed in time and distance from the original action. You cannot control all the consequences that eventually flow from what you do. That makes it critically important that you put as much love, authenticity and positive intention into whatever you do, while you still have influence over it. Each moment, you are sending energy out into life. That energy gets multiplied and repeated for a very long time. The world in which you live is filled with the still-present energy from the long-forgotten actions of everyone who has ever traveled through it. And on this very day, you can do your part to increase the amount of positive energy that settles upon the days to come. Act as if whate...

When you get negative results after a lot of hard work, that can certainly be disappointing. But there’s nothing to be gained by letting those negative results give you a negative attitude. Choose your attitude based not on what has already happened, but on what you intend to make happen now. Though you may have had a negative experience, there’s no reason to continue on that downward path. When you’ve fallen short of the goal, that’s no time to lose confidence in your ability. After all, you’re more highly experienced than ever, and you’ve just developed a very clear understanding of what doesn’t work. Decide to make good and positive use of that newfound wisdom. Go ahead and get started applying your increased level of experience in a useful and productive way. Step away from that worthless self pity and stride confidently toward a higher degree of empowerment. Your hard work has earned you the right to be more confident than ever before. When you get a negative result, do yourself a...

Regrets will do you no good, but action will. Wishing, wondering and speculating will not bring much value into your world, but action will. Are you going to just think about it, getting angry, resentful and dejected about it, or are you going to do something about it? Now would be the perfect opportunity to do something about it. Staying frustrated won’t make you feel any better, but action will. Work to resolve those frustrations, and to create a new situation that puts those frustrations behind you. Action is difficult, complicated and inconvenient. And action is worth all the trouble, because action will make a difference. Action will bring you experience and achievement, and provide options you never had before. Action will transform problems into opportunities, and dreams into reality. What action can you take today that will make for a more positive tomorrow? Take your pick, and get started now.

Great employees spend the majority of their time helping other people succeed: Their company, their employees, their customers and vendors and suppliers... the list goes on and on. Great employees also spend some time helping themselves succeed, both for "selfish" reasons and because their success creates success for others. Rightly or wrongly, to succeed you can't just do a great job -- you also have to find ways to get noticed for doing a great job. Here are six ways: Be known for something specific. Meeting standards, however lofty those standards may be, won't help you stand out. So go above the norm. Be the leader known for turning around struggling employees. Be the owner who makes a few deliveries a week to personally check in with customers. Be the manager who consistently promotes from within. Be known as the employee who responds quicker, acts faster, or always follows up. In short, be so great at something that you're the first person peopl...