Action Feeds Courage

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Burst of Action

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Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will.— 

Thinking is the very thing that causes fear. Doubting is a mental exercise that preoccupies our attention away from our goal. The mental energy is being misused until we redirect our energy back to what’s important. If we act in spite of our fear, then we will realize that we can discover what things we can do without feeling inadequate.  Our action is a way for us to build self-confidence, which we will need, the most of when we start to tackle things we only dream about. Action creates an atmosphere of feeling in control of oneself instead of allowing fear to control us. Our action discharges fear eventually if we allow it to happen.  Fears should be reserved for self-preservation when we need to be alert to life and death situations. Action feeds on our abilties while fear feeds on our limitations.

 

[bctt tweet=”Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will. — W. Clement Stone”]

 

Nurture Our Minds

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N U R T U R E

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. — 

Our thoughts have a big influence on us than we think. If we say to ourselves that we won’t get better doing this or that, then we will find evidence to prove to ourselves that we won’t get better doing this or that thing. However, if we say to ourselves that we will get better doing this or that as long as we hang in there, then we will begin to find self-proof that we’re getting better doing this or that thing. If we want something but don’t want to do the work and expect to get it somehow, then we’re deluded ourselves. Working hard on something won’t guaranteed instant success but the possibility is greater for success. It is in our thinking that will take us to where ever we want to go in life if we nurture the mind with great thoughts. Self-doubt likes to creep its head sometimes. Self-doubt is just a way to let us know that we’re going to uncharted territory and that’s all.

[bctt tweet=”Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. — Benjamin Disraeli”]

 

When We Use Time

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time will answer.

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There’s no such thing as being too busy. If you really want something, you’ll make time for it.— 

We can do whatever we want with our time. We can prioritize our time to the most important thing to do to the least important thing to do. It’s possible to add another thing to our busy list and make it a part of our routine. If we have more than one thing on our list, then we must pick one item to do. We spend our time doing that one thing for a certain amount of time every day until it is completed. Our concentration is better when our attention is on one thing. This is a better strategy because we aren’t distracted by anything else and in the long run speed up the process until completion. Let us used our time instead of time using us up. We make time for something if we think it’s going to be worth it in the end. Using our time is risky because we don’t know if the time we’ve spent on something was wasteful or not, however, it is riskier not to use time at all without ever learning something.

 

[bctt tweet=”There’s no such thing as being too busy. If you really want something, you’ll make time for it.— Unknown”]

 

Who Are You?

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become who you are...

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“Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.”— 

What does it mean to know who we are? We perceived the world through our filters. The filters are unique to each of us. Therefore, the way we see the world is truly a reflection of our background and our personality.  It is ourselves that we need to impress the most, not others. We have a relationship with ourselves. We sometimes are harder on ourselves than others.  We can be our worse enemy or our best advocate. If we seemed to be disappointing about life, then it maybe about how disappointing we are about ourselves. For us to be more satisfying and a have balanced life, we must first embrace ourselves for what we are, which includes the good, and the bad. It is better to laugh often at ourselves than to beat ourselves up because we didn’t do something the way we expected it to be.

 

[bctt tweet=”Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life. —Ellen Sue Stern”]

Fulfilled Life

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Void II

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“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.” — Dalai Lama

We all have needs, wants and desires we want to fulfill. The problem is we sometimes want them now. Although the world is fast paced, we don’t have to have things right away. Sometimes it is good to regroup and ask ourselves; do we need this thing or that thing in our lives? Can we live without fulfilling a desire or getting something we think we need? Those things we have already in our lives are unfulfilling; either we no longer interact with them or perhaps we have this need to fill some void in our lives. We all have voids in our lives some are bigger than others. However, we will always have some void. Nothing can fill a void. However, we’re strong enough to live a fulfilling life with an unfilled void.

 

[bctt tweet=”Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.— Dalai Lama”]

 

In The End

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The End. 365/365 *Explore!*
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It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. — Ursula K. Le Guin

In the end, we will look back on our journey. There is a beginning, a middle and an ending of our lives. At the beginning our path was unclear, in the middle our path became clearer and in the end, we see the entirety of our life. During our reflection, we will see things we did that surprises us. We see the different times in our lives we displayed unbelievable courage through our ups and downs. We’ve struggled through life when it seem no end in sight. We laughed, and we cried in our frustrations. We experienced the cycle of life and what it meant to us. We wander aimlessly at times and then bootstrap ourselves back on track. For the most part, we did our best, but the few times we failed but pick ourselves back up.

 

[bctt tweet=”It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. — Ursula K. Le Guin”]

 

When Time Stops

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Apple Tree in the Sky

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“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”  ― Martin Luther

Orienting towards the future is about sowing seeds today because we don’t know what the future will bring. But today is a sure thing to do to alter our future to what we want it to be. It is also about living today, and if we get another day to live, we can continue to bring about an even better future. It would be like a nice bite of an apple from the tree that we had planted some time earlier. We can be thankful when that time comes because it helps us to understand that something we did in our past had some control over what’s happening today in our lives. Time is so precious and can be easily wasted if we don’t use it to our advantage. When time is lost, we can never get it back. However, we must go on living because everything else will.

 

[bctt tweet=” Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. ― Martin Luther”]

We Can Change if We Wish

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“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”

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We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. — Tony Robbins

It is easier to obsess over what we can’t change, what we can’t do, what we don’t have and what can’t be in our lives. Secondary gain is the reason we continue to obsess over things we can’t change. We get something out of obsessing, however, we can get even more out of our lives if we believe that we can change, do and be exactly what we wish. We just have to shift our way of thinking. There always going to be some increase anxiety when we’re confronted with change. However, in the long run we will be a lot happier than before because we took control over our lives. Obsessing over things is just a mental exercise. No change is required when obsessing. Obsessing doesn’t get us closer to what we wish to do or be.

 

[bctt tweet=”We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. — Tony Robbins”]

 

Retreat To Our Sanctuary

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Autumn Sanctuary

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“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.” — 

For us to sit quietly for a moment or two, we must let go of the external events that are happening around us. When external things are stressing us out, then it is okay to retreat. The benefits of retreating are to help us to renew our bodies and reset our minds so we can have a better handle on things. When we renew our bodies, we have more energy, and when we reset our minds, we have clearer understanding on things. Our sanctuary is within us where we can be ourselves and feel freer to contemplate and we just sit still until we’re ready to return back to the world. We can’t be most effective when we’re burned out and unfocused but after some time away we want to return to do the work as the world welcome us back.

 

[bctt tweet=”Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.— Hermann Hesse”]

 

A Visionary

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The Louvre Pyramid at sunset

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Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision. —Stevie Wonder

We all have limitations that we have to overcome or work around to meet our goals. We don’t have to stop until we reach our limitations. When we reach our limitations, it just means it is time for us to change our perspective so that we can see beyond our limitations. We can begin to see what’s possible. Our limitations are just milestones we reach and ready to push towards the unknown. Where our sight has left off is where our vision starts.  Our mind’s eye can imagine far and wide to have us see what possible. When we see what’s possible then we can allow ourselves to move beyond our limits without hesitation, and with faith and confidence in our abilities.

 

[bctt tweet=”Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision. —Stevie Wonder”]

We Earn Our Keep

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Labour

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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. — J.G. Holland

In the same way, nothing is handed to us and nothing is free. We respect ourselves more when we earn our keep. When we’re tired at the end of the day from working, we can say that we made an earnest effort and we can be proud. Most importantly, when we take initiative instead of waiting for someone to ask us to do something, we can feel good about ourselves. If we think we’re worth more, then we must act like we’re worth more. If we think we’re less than then others will see us as less than. If we put our hearts into our work, others will take notice of the quality of our work and want to do business with us. So we should always present our best work because we will never know that someone may take notice.

 

[bctt tweet=”God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. — J.G. Holland”]

We Make The Conditions Perfect

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Returning home

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Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. — Alan Cohen

Waiting for the perfect condition is another excuse or distraction to keep us from doing what we may perceive to be a difficult task. If we perceive the task to be difficult, then we’re thinking too much about it.  Our thinking has been misdirected to something that is useless, and because it keeps us from moving forward. Instead, we ought to use our thinking while working on the task itself. We need our minds to see what works and what doesn’t work and then use what works to further our progress.  Just as Alan Cohen says in the above quote — the time we start is the time that the conditions begin to shape up into something we can work with. Seemingly, things begin to fall into place all by themselves after we begin.

[bctt tweet=”Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. — Alan Cohen”]

 

Our Determination To Learn

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Learning pivots on who we see ourselves as capable of becoming

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“If you’re not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you’re determined to learn, no one can stop you.” — Unknown

The one thing that no one can take from us is our willingness to learn. Learning increases our power. The power we need to be assertive in life so we can make decisive choices. Ultimately for us to help ourselves, we must spend some time learning things to build self-confidence. We are teachable beings as long as we’re open-minded to new things. When we’re determining to learn, then we have an opportunity to make things happen in our life that hasn’t happen before.  Our unwillingness to learn increases our fear while our determination to learn alleviates our fears. New learning breaks up rigidity and biases. We all have some biases about something we know very little.  When we learn new things we learn new ways to approach new things. Learning helps us to go beyond what we learned yesterday. For us to move forward we must learn new things.

 

[bctt tweet=”If you’re not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you’re determined to learn, no one can stop you. — Unknown”]

 

Enjoy Your Own Life

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Apples & Oranges - They Don't Compare

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“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.” — Marquis de Condorcet

We don’t know what’s really goes on behind closed door of someone’s life. All that we know is what the individual want us to know about them. Instead we can enjoy our own life because we know what makes us happy and what makes us unhappy. Comparing our life with another just implies that we aren’t satisfied with our own life. We don’t need what the other person has for us to have a fulfilled life. Beside, we aren’t that other person. What makes one person happy is very different than what makes another person happy. We just have to return to what made us smile originally and do more of those things. So let us stop looking outward to find tranquility but instead find it within because each and every one of us is different and we know ourselves. It’s like comparing an apple to an orange. The orange is no better than the apple, they both have their own individual texture, smell and taste.

 

 

[bctt tweet=”Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. — Marquis de Condorcet”]

 

Done In Steps

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step

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Step by step and the thing is done. — Charles Atlas

If we just take one step at a time, we will get to our destinations. All it takes are steps for us to complete things. Each step we take is a step closer to our dreams to becoming more real. The first step we make towards our goal is the beginning of inception. It is up to us to complete the final step, as it becomes no longer an idea but something we can touch.  We may not see clearly our path, but we will continue taking steps. If we’re stepping in the wrong direction we can always temporarily step back until we see a better path where our hearts will lead us. It is better to start with baby steps first to help build up our confidence into making more bold and direct steps.

 

[bctt tweet=”Step by step and the thing is done. — Charles Atlas”]

 

 

Choices That Make Us

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Choice

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We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us. — Andrew Ryan

Whatever a choice we make in life always has the potential to change us somehow. We become molded by the choices we make. Up to now, we have made many choices. In fact, we make choices everyday without thinking. We know through trial and error generally speaking as to what choice is useful and what choice is not. There were times in our past that we made life-changing choices and there will be more in our future. Usually, these life-changing choices are when we’re going through some transitional period in our life that everyone experiences.  We’ve made wrong choices and right choices. In fact, we will continue to make the wrong and right choices through out our lifetime. We have to make choices in our lives to continue to move along in the world. We can’t live without choices.

 

[bctt tweet=”We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us. — Andrew Ryan”]

 

Always Begin Again

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The light, begin to bleed.

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No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again. — Buddha

Starting a new day is our opportunity to let go of our past. The past is something we can’t control. The past is but a memory. It is something we can no longer touch. Today we have the opportunity to create new pleasant memories where they can be stored in our memory banks for future references. We have control over what we do today, if we stay in the present. Today we can be hands-on and then we can see later our fingerprints on everything we’ve touched when we do look back in our past. We can either give our power away to our past or, we can use our power to make a difference today. We do have a choice as to where we want to place our attention. We might have lost a loved-one that we don’t want to let go or, we did some things in our past that we don’t want to forgive. Nonetheless, there is nothing we can do today about what happened yesterday but we can always begin again.

 

[bctt tweet=”No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again. — Buddha”]

 

Thanks For Little

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Thanks!

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“Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.” —Estonian Proverb

If we desire something we don’t have, then we’re not giving thanks for the little things. Once upon a time, what we called little things were once big things to us.  Perhaps, it is time to zoom into those little things to make them appear bigger so we can see that we have a lot to be thankful for.  We can be thankful that we still have our health that we can still walk and breath at the same time.  We can be thankful that we have friends and family who cares about us. We can be thankful that we can breath and smell all kinds of fragrances. We can be thankful for the fall season with a crisp in the air. We don’t have be thankful just on Thanksgiving Day, but we can find thankfulness everyday from places we’ve gone and people we’ve met in our lives

 

[bctt tweet=”Who does not thank for little will not thank for much. —Estonian Proverb”]

 

Risk With Fear, Then Live With Confidence

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Risk

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Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing. — Warren Buffett

If we don’t risk, then we take away our choices. When we take away our choices we feel stagnated or stuck. Fear controls when we don’t take risks. So fear can deceive us into believing that there are no choices. For us to overcome fear we must go through fear. Our fears don’t have to control our actions. Instead, we can see fear as a positive respond to a new situation. We can use our fears as an asset instead of as a liability.  Our fear is just a barometer that we’re about to take some risks that is outside our comfort zone. Sometimes we won’t know what we’re doing until we do it a few more times until we feel confidence in ourselves doing it which eventually lessens the fear.  Fear doesn’t have to be used as a crutch but use to remind ourselves that we’re about to grow outside our comfort zone.

[bctt tweet=”Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing. — Warren Buffett”]

Invent Your Future

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Elliott Bay Sailing.

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“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” — Alan Kay

In other words, to be sure of our own future, we are to invent it ourselves. We invent our future today not tomorrow. What does it mean to invent our future today? It means if we do the things we need to do today, then we have more of a chance to change our future. Today is in our hands to get a handle on things to bring our dream into reality. Dreaming is about looking at future selves doing what we want. If we start now we’re way ahead of the game. Nothing will be smooth sailing; there will be some rough winds and rain to get through things.  We don’t have to predict what we’re going to do in the future instead we can work towards our future goal by putting in the hard work today and not giving up on our dreams.

 

[bctt tweet=”The best way to predict the future is to invent it.— Alan Kay”]