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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. —Gerry Spence

Milton Erickson once said that we hold dear to our beliefs no matter what they are. Our world can be skewed by limited beliefs that are not conducive to an open mind. Then, what must we do with limited beliefs that skew our world?  A good exercise like wondering, is not so much to challenge our belief systems but to free our minds. When we wonder we begin to let go of some of those limited beliefs and allow our unconscious part of us to emerge so we can think more divergently.

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It is not joy that makes us grateful. It is gratitude that makes us joyful. —David Rast

When we focus on what we’re thankful about, we experience joy. We begin to see things and the people in our lives, and realize that we all have what we need. It is easy to be caught in to thinking that we need to do this or that for us be thankful or fulfilled in our lives. What’s really importance are the people in our lives that we hold dear to our hearts. Friendship and family are important not always things.

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The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.

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Start where you are. Use what you have.  Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe

The quote above is so powerful when you think about what Arthur Ashe’s meaning. He says, “Start where you are,” meaning that we don’t have to be like someone else for us to start something that inspires us. He also says, Use what you have,” meaning start with what we already have, because we’ve already gained enough experience over the years. Lastly, Mr. Ashe, says, “Do what you can,” meaning do what our abilities allow us to do because we can make a difference.

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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington

Sometimes, the quickest way to get out of our blues is to lift someone else’s spirits.  When we’re in our blues, we’re only centering on ourselves. But when we see that someone else’s spirits needs a lift, we’re moving outside ourselves.  Our concentration is no longer on ourselves but on the other person. Our thinking shifts when we concentrate on others therefore, our feelings changes because we’ll beginning to connect positively with another human being. We’re beginning to feel better while they’re beginning to feel better about themselves. It’s a special relationship.

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If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh

Thoughts have the power to change behavior and the reverse is truth that our behaviors have the power to change our thoughts.  Therefore, we don’t have to allow our thoughts to control us or keep us from fulfilling a task. Self-defeating thoughts only keep us from our dreams but if we do things in spite of our thoughts and feelings, we can quickly have self-proof that things are possible to do. Taking new steps can sometimes feel like a threat because we don’t know where it’s going to lead us.  But if we just take small steps to get use to our discomforts, then self-confidence is inevitable.

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Hope is a waking dream. —Aristotle

Hope can only be used so far if we continue to stay idle. Hope has its limits. If we have a chance to use action, then we no longer need hope, but our brain, legs and hands to make things happen. Hope is useful when we feel helpless and hopeless and that everything we’ve done was not enough to make an impact on the situation. Sometimes we just need to sit back and be hopeful and give it some time. Being hopeful is about looking for opportunities when our actions can make an impact.

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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forward. — Søren Kierkegaard

Our past is educational. We can learn from our life past. We have a greater understanding on things after we have lived through it. Our future is unknown to us but we can set goals. Working on goals is our deliberate act of creating our own path and direction. Goals can help us decrease our anxiety of the unknown future. Goals are like guideposts to help us through our fuzzy path.  It’s all right to move forward through our path of life.

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No matter how much we want to change, the real question we have to ask ourselves, are we ready to change and are we receptive for change. No matter how much we complain we still have to be the one that make the change if we we’re not satisfied with the life we’re living.  It is easier to complain about things, than to be proactive in making the first step for change. A change is really a lifestyle. It is about leaving our old self behind and learning about our new self.  Change is about learning new behaviors that will eventually become good habits. Good habits build good character in the long run.

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It’s all right to use grit when it comes to learning something difficult. It’s going to take some practice before we can get close to perfection. Therefore, no one is perfect. We’re going to fail while learning something because our brain is stretching as well as our body. The learning is complete when we have developed neural pathways in our brain.  We say to ourselves how difficult at first the learning was, now after the learning process, it seems so simple. So grit is worth it if we really want it bad enough.

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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. — Og Mandino

We can only do our best in everything we do because our future depends on what we do today.  Our future depends on what decisions we make today. The moments we have today is a gift from what we have done in the past.  We have more control over our lives than we think. We have choices we don’t know about yet; we just haven’t seen them to move beyond what we see. As we expand our horizon, we begin to see clearly so that we can make better choices in our lives.