Inspirational
The way to find your own path may just be realized in the insecurities and doubts you have about yourself and life in general. The positive way to flourish is by having a specific set of reasons for doing what you do. Have an aim and make a plan to succeed.
“Sometimes your insecurities and your inexperience may lead you to embrace other people’s expectations, standards or values but you can harness that inexperience to carve out your own path; one that is free of the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be. A path that is defined by its own particular set of reasons.” Natalie Portman
A part of the moving from one phase in life to the next is putting in a lot of hard work. This will be the true testament to accomplishing some of those things you strive for.
“There are no shortcuts. You’ve gotta put in the time. And I think the first take away is: there are absolutely no shortcuts. It takes time and it takes a lot of hard work.”
Both states of joy or anguish are temporary. As Eckhart Tolle pointed out, ‘this too shall pass’ — that phrase goes for anything you are experiencing the good along with the bad.
The scary thing about life is that you can be here today and gone the next. That’s why it’s imperative to live life to the fullest of our potentials.
“He said, but imagine if you will, being on your deathbed and standing around your bed the ghost of the ideas, the dreams, the abilities, the talents given to you by life and that you for whatever reason, you never acted on those ideas.” Les Brown
Life will throw you many obstacles and challenges along your journey. The best way to deal with them is not to avoid but meet them head on. Overcoming each challenge is a stepping stone to accomplishing one more goal or dream.
“We all wrestle with our own challenges. We all wrestle with our own obstacles. There’s always something waiting around the corner that’s gonna challenge us but what I like to say is that you can’t let the challenge become an excuse.” Anthony Robles
Do you try to avoid failure? Most people do. It makes sense, too. Failing is no fun, but most successful people have failed many times along the way.
It would be great if we could leap right to success. However, it doesn’t work that way. But, you can use tools to build your self-belief, and create that success. One of the best tools to help you can be failure itself.
Triple World record holder and nine time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt, talks about what it takes to accomplish his mind boggling feats on the track. He was a precocious teenage talent but he had to stay dedicated and train hard daily with sacrifice in order to get to his level of greatness.
“I think a lot of people, they see you run and they say, (oh) it looks so easy, it really looks effortless but before it gets to that point it’s like hard work. Day in day out sacrifice.” Usain Bolt
In order to push yourself towards success there are some key ingredients. You have to work diligently and you have to be resilient. Hear as 50 Cent talks about his road to success in music.
“No matter how much you feel like you’re prepared for something, it never happens on your time, like when you think you’re ready. It always happens when it’s supposed to happen because the period that you feel ready and people are not acknowledging the material like you think they should cause it’s good, is the time you develop skin thick enough to survive when it does work.” 50 Cent
By nature, humans are selfish creatures whether we know it or not or whether we express it or not and no that’s not a bad thing at all. I’m not talking about the greedy, uncaring, rude type of selfish that comes from acting out of fear-driven emotions. I’m talking about the type of selfishness that is required for you to take care of yourself first and foremost; knowing full well that if you do not, you are not very much use to anyone else because we really cannot serve from an empty cup. The thing with this is, that even though I truly feel we are naturally and innately drawn to do this, we are otherwise taught that selfishness itself just falls into one category of “wrong” or “don’t do it”. When, just like everything, your intention behind it is key.
Where you decide to expend your efforts will decide where you end up in life. The ideal is to find a way to stay true to your own goals that you’ve laid out for yourself. If you don’t have any goals yet, then finally take the time to decide what you want out of life.
“When it comes to where I want to exude my efforts and energy in life, it’s on something that I want to make sure is true to my own mission and my own goals. So working for myself is something I take very seriously and everybody I work with are people who in some capacity share a similar vision.” Casey Neistat
What does it take to make this day yours? You have to approach each day as if you are blessed and capable of accomplishing your goals. With determination, you can truly determine the course of your life.
“You are the star of your show. You are the director. You are writing the script.” Les Brown
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a famous American essayist, philosopher and poet from the 1800s is well known for his inspirational quotes on the nature of reality, and the path to success and fulfillment. Emerson believed in nonconformity and in a person’s ability to create his or her own reality. Here are 15 of the most inspiring quotes by Emerson…
I see patience as a little breather in between manifestations.
The thing about being an entrepreneur is that you have to love what you’re doing and have a consistent drive to continue producing. The success comes on the other side of staying motivated and finding a way to make your ideas work.
“The thing about being an entrepreneur is that it’s all to you. A lot of people like to make excuses, I don’t have connections, I don’t have money, I don’t have this, but if you find something that you like to do or love to do, be great at it and see if you can turn it into a business.” Cuban
This life we live will be filled with different issues and problems we have to face. The best way to go about them is to engage them head on. Know that if a problem comes your way, that you have the wisdom, tools and resources to handle it.
“Turn towards the problems that you see and engage with them. Walk right up to them, look them in the eye, then look yourself in the eye and decide what you’re going to do about them.” Matt Damon
