We can’t always complete things in one day.
Confidence and Encouragement
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We need both correction and encouragement. We need correction so that we know what mistakes we’re making. Corrections may sting us a little. However, we become better people. Supports are made to help us to continue improving on the things that were corrected. Although encouragement does more to build up confidence, correction builds up character. What we need the most is a character. A character is expressed through how much confidence we have in ourselves. We are unafraid to be ourselves because of our trust.
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CFH031: CHAPTER 3 Efforts: Do You Have A Purpose in What You’re Doing?
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
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Actions speak louder than words, but not nearly as often. — Mark Twain
It is easier to talk about what we want to do than doing. We’re just stalling when we’re doing more talking than doing. Putting in the effort takes a lot the work. It is hard to maintain consistency from the beginning, middle and finally the end of the work. Talking about taking action to others only feed our ego. However, it’s only temporary until we see nothing gained but only see regrets. Confidence building comes from our actions not from the mouth. We need our whole body to participate in an action.
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Believe the One Reason
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Forget all the reasons it won’t work and believe the one reason that it will. — Unknown
It makes a difference where we place our attention on what we can find that works versus what we can find won’t work. It takes a certain time to find what works. We will find more things that won’t work before we begin to find what does work. When we find what does work, we will say it was all worth the struggle. Sometimes we have to step back to see the forest first before we see the trees for us to find clarity.
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CFH030: CHAPTER 3 Efforts: Inspiration Is Deceptive
“What it boils down to is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
— Thomas Edison
Joy is Your Lesson
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Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson. — Alan Cohen
Everything we have experienced and is experiencing are potential lessons. We just have to be mindful of them for us to learn. We go through different phases life. What we value as kids is a lot different from what we value as adults. Even as the adult we can never stop learning from life’s lessons. Lessons can teach us about ourselves, if we want to know about ourselves. However, we don’t have to exclude joy because we can learn something about it. If we’re mindful, we can observe our behavior during the day, and see what things during our daily routines we may find most joyful.
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CFH029: CHAPTER 3 Effort: Anticipating Obstacles
When things aren’t going our way, patience is required.
A Listening Ear
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Sometimes, what a person needs is not a brilliant mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens. — Unknown
Sometimes we want to be quick to help solve another person’s problem, instead of just listening to what the other person is saying. Being a listening ear to someone can go a long way. Sometimes we just need to get things that we’re thinking about or feeling about out of our system. The better way of getting things out of our system is if someone just listens and in the end, we feel like we have discharged a lot of energy that we’ve been waiting to release. It’s like a weight has been lifted from our chest and now we can move on. Not only we can move on, but we can also have a better handle on things that we didn’t have before because of the amount of weight we were carrying.
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CFH028: CHAPTER 3 Efforts: The Long Way Is the Shorter Way
When it comes to hard work or completing a difficult task, there is always the temptation of making shortcuts. Some shortcuts can be useful, but shortcuts can be more bothersome than they’re worth.
CFH027: CHAPTER 3 Efforts: A Fulfilled Dream Requires a Commitment
When committed to something, there is no indecision, there are no ambiguities, there are no distractions, and there are no excuses. We just do what requires of us.
Opportunities Are Like Sunrises
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Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.— William Arthur Ward
If we look around long enough, we will see opportunities. If we want it bad enough, then we would gladly take the opportunity when it presents itself to us. Why is that some of us meet with opportunities, and we don’t take them? Sometimes we wait for so long to take the opportunities because we think we have time, or we realize it will take our time away from other things. We know it is going to be hard work. We also know that this opportunity may never come again. We ought not to wait for too long because it may be too late.
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CFH026: CHAPTER 3 Efforts: Mini Goals: The End In Sight
Prove We Can’t Before We Dismiss It
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It’s not who you are that holds you back; it’s who you think you’re not. — Unknown
After going down a list of things to ourselves who we think we’re not, then what is left for us to do? Yes, we hide behind a list of what we can’t do because we’re allowing our fears to take over. Everything we do that’s new to us takes practice. Practicing the same tasks over and over can improve over time. There are certain expectations we have to meet each day until we become proficient at it. It’s a matter of time becoming that idea. When we start a new job, we’re given a title. By our job title, there are certain expectations that others have of us that we must do. As a new employee, we’re given at least six months to prove to our employers and ourselves that we can meet the demands of a position. So instead of us being so quick to dismiss things we think we can’t do, let us give ourselves a chance to prove to ourselves if we can do it.
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Attitude Makes a Difference
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Make your optimism come true. — Unknown
It is better to have an optimistic attitude than to have pessimistic one. It is our attitude that affects our world and how we live our lives. We have ups and downs in our life. It is how we live our life in spite of the ups and especially the downs we all have in our life. Besides our downs are temporary, and only part of our life and we can make a choice not to be defended by them. We can see them as the roughages of life that each and every one of us experiences. We can make optimism real in our lives by creating an atmosphere is by living our lives to the fullest and freely the things that give us purpose and meaning each day and for the rest of our lives.
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CFH025: CHAPTER 3 Efforts: Inspiration Motivates Success
We don’t have to feel overwhelmed or feel envious when we see someone’s success.
CFH024: CHAPTER 3 Efforts: Persistence Through Life’s Difficulties
In spite of our fears and doubts, we must persist in what we’re trying to carry out. We may lose some while being persistent, but if we lose persistence itself, then everything is lost.
Heal With Change
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I realized, it is not the time that heals, but what we do within that time that creates positive change. — Diane Deetman
We need time to heal. But we also need to take the time we to heal. That means letting go and saying goodbye when we’re ready someday to say those words ‘goodbye.’ We can’t afford to hold on to something that causes us pain. We no longer have to identify with the pain. It’s all right to move past it by giving ourselves permission to start the healing process instead of allowing the pain to linger for a long time. We’re meant to go on with our life and live our lives.
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What Motivates You?
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The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
A bird is motivated by its nature to look for food, water, and to finds shelter and mate. The bird has to survive first before its find a partner to start a family. Everything we do has something to drive us to do it. Motivation has such a power to keep us doing certain things. If we’re thirty, we get up to get a glass of water. Every day we see people driving their cars to work, or seeing people standing at a bus stop in the blizzard cold. Those individuals who are standing in a blizzard waiting for a bus has their motivation. Milton Erickson alway tried to find what motivates people to do certain behaviors.
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