Believe
“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” – Mary Kay Ash
Limits box us in and create a prison with bars that we accept as our limits. This is a self made prision of stories that we have accepted as our truth. It is scary because the fear mind creates the fear of failure, of looking stupid, and tells us the bars are real and in place for a reason. We are all far more talented and capable that we can imagine, but we have to be willing to believe and step outside of the bars and test our limits to find them. Test each bar of belief and you will find they are illusions, easy to remove and move past.
Sharing Gifts
“What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best – which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is.” – Debbie Field.
She was told that no one would buy her cookies, but she did it anyway not because she wanted to be successful financially – she wasn’t chasing dollars. She did it because she felt a need to share something of herself with others, to give and be a part of things. And I believe that is why she was successful. She was passionate, gave from her heart, and she connected to people by using her talents. Sharing your gift is a critical part of your success.
One Choice
“You are always one choice away from changing your life” – Macy Blochoviak
Your life today is made of the choices you made in your past, and with one new choice put into action today, you can change directions is a moment. Don’t cheat yourself or those who are waiting on you to use your gifts. Ask yourself a better question than can I do this – ask what do I need to do to make this happen?
Next Opportunity
“Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.” – Arthur Pine
Love
Whatever you do today, remember ONE thing.
That in the end, all that really matters is the love!
Did you seek it?
Did you find it?
But most importantly – DID YOU GIVE IT?
Remember the LOVE!
– Veronica Hay
Distractions
“Don’t be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams.” – Derek Sivers
Loved this, because it is so true – how much of your day today was pursuing your big dream and how much was little distractions? How about your week, or the month of October, or the year 2011? Time moves by so quickly, don’t let the little distractions take you out of the game.
Motion
“Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress” -Alfred A. Montapert
It is always interesting when you think about how much of your day is spent doing things that keep us busy, but don’t really provide any real progress. I talk about how busy I am, but I also have time wasters that drain some of those precious hours in my day. One of my goals for this week is to try and do some time blocking and get some of my projects finished. That will clear up some of my mind clutter and allow for clarity in my thinking, which will help me make some progress.
Focus
Great advice on how to have a great relationship with friends and family – Love what you can love and let the rest go. We all have good points, focus on the positive. As long as the negative isn’t abusive in some way, just let it go.
Want
“All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it — tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if It should really become manifest –if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself — you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say, ‘Here at last is the thing I was made for.’ We cannot tell each other about it. It is the secret signature of each soul, the incommunicable and unappeasable want, the thing we desired before we met our wives or made our friends or chose our work, and which we shall still desire on our deathbeds, when the mind no longer knows wife or friend or work.”
Pioneer
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.” – Deepak Chopra
It is easy to just exist in life, going to work, coming home, parking in front of the TV and off to bed and rinse and repeat each day. You become a prisoner of your routine, a life where you have become your own jailer. Instead you can blaze a new trail, taking the road less traveled and create a life that will astound you.
Soaring
“Why does the thrill of soaring have to begin with the fear of falling?” – from the book, The Push
This line is in reference to mother eagles who push their babies out of the nest to get them to fly. Every time we learn something new or expand our comfort zone, we have the fear of falling or failing. But when we take that chance and do it anyway, we have the potential of our spirit soaring as we take our life to new heights. That is what the last 4 days was all about – getting up in front of my peers and taking the chance of falling. The flying was a little tricky here and there, but I definetly did some soaring tool