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"Opportunities don't happen. You create them," and other quotes to propel you forward.
Monday Quote Of The Day (Be Fearful Of Mediocrity)
Every single day presents an opportunity for us to start working on designing the life we desire for ourselves, an opportunity for us to start working towards our goals, an opportunity to start working towards creating success for ourselves, an opportunity for us to begin engaging in work we are truly passionate about, an opportunity to begin creating wealth, and an opportunity to start creating a life enriched with happiness. What wonderful rewards and blessings these are to obtain, and yet for most of us, we turn these amazing opportunities down. Happiness, success, lifestyle, work satisfaction, prosperity, and goals accomplishment; six things that we so desperately would love to delight in, yet the majority of us are starved of. What doesn't make sense is that we would love to relish in these rewards, but we actually choose not to. That is correct, WE make the choice not to accept these rewards on offer to us. As much as so many of us love to pass the blame on other people, circumstances, and external reasons, for not being able to receive these rewards into our life, there genuinely is nothing that prevents us from obtaining them, apart from one factor.....ourselves. How does this even make sense, that we could desire these wonderful blessings and rewards so desperately, and yet we choose not to strive for them? We know that the choices and decisions we make in life are determined by the mind. Our thoughts, beliefs, feelings, opinions, and emotions are all generated within our mind, and they are always influenced by what we have heard, what we have seen, what we have experienced, or perhaps what we assume. It's right here where the problem lies for so many of us, as to why we turn away from the amazing opportunities to create such a wonderful and rewarding life for ourselves, that are right in front of us every single day!
By David Stidston5 years ago in Motivation
3 Lessons from Traveling That Lead to Everyday Happiness
After college I went to explore Europe for four months with one of my best friends. We took it back to fourteen different countries and learned things about the world and ourselves that we did not expect. We used to joke that we learned more about life ourselves by traveling abroad for four months than we did at school for four years in college.
By Samyog kandel5 years ago in Motivation
Thursday Quote Of The Day (Be Of Service)
Many people often get confused, when one minute I am encouraging everyone to prioritize helping, supporting, uplifting, encouraging, and giving generously, to others, yet in the next sentence I am stating that people should never go about pleasing others in life. Sounds a little contradictory, right? Surely when we go about helping others, or giving generously to others, we are in fact pleasing them, yeah? Well, there is actually a massive difference between pleasing others and helping others. Let's firstly determine what pleasing others looks like. Many people don't even have the awareness they are actually living their life pleasing others. The truth is, when we are not going about pleasing others, we would be instead going about pleasing ourselves. When pleasing ourselves, our decisions and our actions are based around what is best for us in life, what would be beneficial, advantageous, and perhaps profitable, to us. Our beliefs and opinions would be what we truly believe in our own heart, rather than from what others have told us, or what we have read. We would basically be living our life to our own design, and not to how others advise us to live, or not be influenced or manipulated into living life in any way but how we desire. We would not be following society, or the crowd. It may sound selfish, but it's vital that we are living our life to our own design, because we only get one shot at life, and we want to be living every single one of the days in happiness, success, and satisfaction. When we are happy, satisfied, and successful, we are more likely to become the best version of ourselves that we can be. When we are pleasing others though, that's when we start following what most other people are doing in life, such as finding a job just for income's sake, rather than finding work that we are truly passionate about, or we believe what the majority of other people believe, or we behave in a manner how most other people behave. We do this in order to fit in with society, to avoid being criticized, and labelled as being different and abnormal. We do this in order to avoid confrontation and being made to look foolish. We want to be admired, liked, respected, and accepted, therefore we follow what most others do, and believe what most others believe. The result in doing so though is that we deny ourselves the opportunity to follow our goals, to live life how we desire, and to live life in happiness.
By David Stidston5 years ago in Motivation
Monday Quote Of The Day (The Risk In Not Trying)
We all want assurance and guarantees in life, especially when it comes to our own safety, finances, family, and lifestyle. There's just one problem though, there aren't any real guarantees and assurances in life. Even when we hear about these "money back guarantees" on various products we purchase, or services we accept, there is nothing to suggest that the retailer or seller won't find a loophole in their terms and conditions to decline the guarantee, or they could perhaps go into liquidation, out of the blue. When we head off to work in the morning, we don't even think, for one minute, that we are placing our life at risk, the moment we step out the door. We may be involved in a tragic car accident, we may become a victim of a terrorist attack, we may suffer a heart attack, or we may be the unfortunate one whose life is lost due to an unexpected event. This isn't aimed at filling you with immense fear, to the point you are the frightened to even step out of your house, but the message is that none of us know what the day ahead will deliver. We simply assume that nothing will happen, we feel pretty comfortable that nothing will happen, and we feel pretty positive that nothing will happen, but do we actually have complete assurance and guarantee that nothing will? Of course we don't. No matter what we do in life, we are always at the mercy of something unforeseen and tragic happening to us, even if the potential is extremely unlikely. We don't think of something like this happening to us on any given day because, not only is it highly unlikely, but we haven't experienced or witnessed anything in the past. With this in mind, we step out of house, head off to work, and go about our day as always, without giving as much as a thought to the potential risk we are placing our life in. Why can't we have this same mindset and attitude when it comes to taking risks to enhance our life, and progress towards our goals though?
By David Stidston5 years ago in Motivation
9 Rare and Powerful Quotes About the Importance of Self Awareness
“Look outside and you will see yourself. Look inside and you will find yourself.” — Drew Gerald This simple quote explains the importance of self-introspection. Finding yourself is the basis for any improvement. You need to know where you are. Who you are. What you are. How you are. And most importantly, Why you are.
By Mathias Barra5 years ago in Motivation
What to Do If You Want More Purpose, Passion, and Meaning
"I don't believe that people want a purpose in life just as much as they want a life experience." ~ Joseph Campbell Do you ever feel like there should be more to life? More purpose, love, meaning - whatever your name of choice is?
By Dipsion Neupane5 years ago in Motivation
Don't Let Hurt Get On You
Yes it hurts sometimes when you feel alone. It hurts sometimes when you're in that dark place and you feel no one cares about you. The first thing you've got to realize is that you got to love yourself it's about self-love. Start understanding that if you're going to do something with your life you've got to fall in love with yourself again, you got to stop self hating yourself, Do something that's going to make you a better person, make an impact in this world, don't look at it as though it's something that you've got to do temporary Although we know that life is short, like many people in this world they didn't realize that the next day they were going to be diagnosed with a cancer. They thought that tomorrow was going to be waiting for them and they did not wake up. But you are still living Now what do you have to do? How are you going to move forward? How are you going to proceed your life? Life is not a game Life is living There's the good and there's the bad and there's definitely the right now. You can't wait for somebody else to make your life better You got to make your life better You got to focus on you Now I'm not saying forget the rest of the people But I'm telling you to get rid of the things that are not making you strong, that are not making you better, that are not making you efficient, that are not putting you in a better place, that's not giving you the strength that you need to keep living the life that you have been given.
By Sumesh Bhaila5 years ago in Motivation
20 Quotes To Remind You Of The Importance Of Self-Love
What is the difference between self-love and vanity? Well, self-love is defined as having "regard for one's own well-being and happiness", whilst vanity is defined as having "excessive pride in or admiration of one's own appearance or achievements". When we talk about loving ourselves, many people often get caught up in the belief they are being vain, if they choose to love themselves, which often can lead to unwanted attention and criticism. As you can see from the definitions above though, there is a distinct difference between self-love and vanity. There are two words in the above definitions that I want to highlight, them being "excessive" and "regard". Vanity is indeed taking the love for oneself to excessive and unnecessary levels, as it's placing ourselves on a pedestal basically, installing a belief within ourselves that we are above and better than others, without showing any humility in the process. We may be blessed with good looks, or we may be blessed with skills and talent that earns us success and recognition in a respective field, but we should never be so infatuated and obsessed with ourselves to the extent we believe we are above others. Whether you believe it or not, vanity actually leads us to becoming restricted in our experience of life. We are so focused on being so awesome, attractive, and talented, that we target being the centre of attention, but all the while, it ends up creating solitude and emptiness instead. Being so self-absorbed, we often start to disconnect from others, which can have a detrimental affect on our relationships. Vanity is not beneficial to us, and is not what loving ourselves is all about.
By David Stidston5 years ago in Motivation
20 Quotes To Encourage You To Seize Your Opportunities
It's been stated that opportunity knocks, but if that were actually the truth, then the majority of people worldwide need to get their hearing tested because they fail to answer the door. Either that, or people need a massive injection of willpower and courage to seize the opportunities when they hear and recognize the knocking. Each and every day, people everywhere continue to moan and groan, and whinge and complain, about how their life sucks, how they are always unhappy, how they never get their way in life, how life is so unfair to them, how they never have enough money, how their job is crappy, and how they never get to experience success and goal accomplishment. It's that typical blame game that so many people love to play, because they genuinely believe that it's life's fault, or it's just their circumstances, or it's other people's fault, as to why their life is miserable, unsatisfying, unrewarding, and unfulfilling. All along, the truth is, we only ever have ourselves to blame for all what we whinge and complain about, because it comes off the back of decisions, or non-decisions, that we make that actually determines our circumstances. It's also about our attitude, and how we choose to perceive the circumstances we found ourselves in, and how life really is. Life can be harsh, there's no disputing that, because on many occasions we are left to confront situations and events that are unfair, unjust, and even unexplainable, but the majority of things we complain and whinge about are purely from choices we make, not as a result of life being harsh on us. The reason being is, we fail to seize our opportunities! We have opportunities that stare us in the face, every single day, to transform our life and start creating success and happiness for ourselves, yet we direct our attention away from them, and we do so because we are either too scared or too lazy to accept them.
By David Stidston5 years ago in Motivation
