Fear is Your Limitation

This is so true, a great look at one of the main things that stops us achieving our dreams, the rest of the article can be found at http://dennisharting.blogspot.com/2009/01/no-fear.html



How differently would your life be if fear did not exist? Or better yet, have you ever seen those people who were not scared of anything? They seem willing to try anything. There is not a person who they would not go and talk to. Everything appears to come easy to them. They are always surrounded by a group of people. My, how we look at them with envy.

The question is "are they really any different from you?". In most ways, no. However, there is one facet that separates them from you: fear makes your decisions. That is it. You continually give in to the fear while others walk though it.

For the most part, fear is a figment of your imagination. There are those situations where it is an ally where one is physically in danger. Nevertheless, few of us face life or death circumstances on a daily basis. In reality, fear is a creation of our mind meant to avoid change. The mind abhors uncertainty. If it can maintain the status quo, that provides a level of certainty. Taking action means there is a degree of uncertainty over the results that will be gotten. This is what the minds seeks to avoid.

Failures

Do not be afraid of failures, they are the lessons you need to learn for success

Success and Motivation

I did it too. I drove by big houses and would wonder who lived there. What did they do for a living? How did they make their money? Someday, I would tell myself, I would live in a house like that. Every weekend I would do it.

I read books about successful people. In fact, I read every book or magazine I could get my hands on. I would tell myself 1 good idea would pay for the book and could make the difference between me making it or not.

I worked jobs I didn’t like. I worked jobs I loved, but had no chance of being a career. I worked jobs that barely paid the rent. I had so many jobs my parents wondered if I would be stable. Most of them aren’t on my resume anymore because I was there so short a time or they were so stupid I was embarrassed. You don’t want to write about selling powdered milk or selling franchises for TV repair shops. In every job, I would justify it in my mind whether I loved it or hated it that I was getting paid to learn and every experience would be of value when I figured out what I wanted to do when I grew up.

Very good article, read the rest of it at

http://blogmaverick.com/2007/12/24/success-and-motivation/

Courage

The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
John F. Kennedy

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All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

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A man full of courage is also full of faith.
Cicero

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Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway

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Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill

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Courage is resistance to fear; mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

Go Now and Live

Go and live, its your life and you only get one shot at it

Disipline

Discipline carries negative connotations to many. Basically, it is something that few of us seek out. Just the word itself conjures up images that people do not like. The military stresses discipline with it's anal rules and regulations. Nuns in Catholic school hammer us about being disciplined often resulting in the meeting of a ruler. Or, perhaps our parents tried to instill this into us by having us make our beds as children. Whatever your image (and experience) is with discipline, it most likely is something that you do not aspire to have.

read the complete article HERE

Disipline is something few actually have, they move from task to task with no thought of what comes next, the need to have self disipline is never more evident than when you have no set plan whether at work or at home

change

Change endures, make sure you do as well

Attitude

"“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect it’s successful outcome.”
–William James

"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."
- Martha Washington

“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.”
––Muhammad Ali

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense."
–– Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'ts not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life ;it is how you handle what happens to you.
Zig Ziglar

Creativity

Be creative, take a chance and learn to soar

Your Journey

Your journey is special to you, learn all you can from it

Learning Always

Never stop learning, turn a difficult experience into something positive

Master or Victim

What will you be ? A Master or a Victim ?

What Qualities Do You Need?

More wise words from this Life Coach, great advice once more, the rest of the article can be found at http://dennisharting.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-qualities-do-you-need.html



Success is the result of certain actions taken in a specific direction. However, to get to that destination, there are certain qualities one needs to have. Implementing the proper attitudes and mindset are crucial if you are going to achieve anything substantial. For this to occur, you might need to alter how you view yourself.

Contrary to popular belief, your personality is something that is developed. It is not something that we are born with. People like to say "he is naturally..." or "this is how I was made". These are untrue statements. We all select the behaviors which we impact our lives. Most of these actions are determined by how we view ourselves.

A good list to help you on your way to self imporvement, the rest of the artcle can be found at
http://listverse.com/health/top-10-tips-for-self-improvement/

While I do not always end up managing to put each of the following tips into practice, I do make a big effort to do so each day. This is a list of my favorite tips to improving your life. All it takes is a little bit each day and you will see wondrous changes. Feel free to add your own tips to the comments.

10. Get off to a Good Start

This means getting up early and eating breakfast. You will have much more energy throughout the day to follow the rest of these tips if you do! If you are so inclined, you can even include a little exercise in your morning routine. If you live with other people you can try to use this opportunity to get everyone together at the table to eat in the mornings. This is a nice way to start the day and a good way to ensure open lines of communication in a very busy household.

9. Keep a Schedule

It is a very good idea to write down the tasks you need to achieve in each day. As you complete them, tick them off. You should not, however, feel like you are bound to your list. If you don’t manage to do everything, it doesn’t matter - move any incomplete tasks from today on to tomorrow’s list. This is also a great help if you are a procrastinator.

You Have the Answer

You have the answer, are you going to ask the question ?

Happiness is Your Right

Be Happy - Its your right

Returning

Returning makes you appriciate the changes around you more

How Committed Are You?

This is an extremely important question. Your level of commitment will determine how much success you enjoy. It dictates the actions that you are willing to take. Commitment creates the motivation and incentive to forge ahead. We wrote down some goals for the New Year a couple of weeks back. How committed are you to achieving them?

When people are fully committed to something, they can achieve incredible results. Superhuman feats are accomplished if the desire is great enough. Have you ever seen the videos of a woman who miraculously saves a child who is trapped underneath a car? A woman who weight 110 pounds has no business picking up something that heavy. Nevertheless, her level of commitment is really high at that moment. This provides her with the adrenaline rush necessary to pull off this feat.

Another inspiring article from this noteworthy writer, the rest of the post can be found at http://dennisharting.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-committed-are-you.html

Dealing With Stress Before Stress Deals With You

Dealing With Stress Before Stress Deals With You



There’s a shockingly disturbing trend I’m seeing in e-mail, on blogs, and in the news. More and more people are suffering from:

* Anxiety and Anxiety Attacks
* Heart Problems
* Stress
* Sleeplessness

These, when they take a nasty turn, can lead to further health problems, relationship problems, financial setbacks, and a general loss in quality of life. At least, in most of the cases I’ve seen, most people are actively trying to make themselves better by making necessary changes. But as Daisee points out, change is hard - sometimes really, really hard!

CupWhen it comes to oversimplifying things, I’m so guilty I should be locked up for life. I’m well aware of that. But having acknowledged the fact, I still have to say that I think the answers to these problems are often within our own power. It’s sort of like me this morning. I woke up at 3:15 dying for a drink. I knew I’d left a cup in the bathroom adjacent to our bedroom. With eyes barely open, somehow I managed to turn the water on. Then my only problem was, “Where’d that darn cup go?” I felt around on the counter in the dark with my left hand, then it occured to me - the cup was in my right hand. I must have absentmindedly picked it up before turning the water on.


Great article, the rest can be found at http://www.selfhelpdaily.com/dealing-with-stress-before-stress-deals-with-you/

Look To This Day

Look to this day
for it is life
the very life of life.

In its brief course lie all
the realities and truths of existence
the joy of growth
the splendor of action
the glory of power.

For yesterday is but a memory
And tomorrow is only a vision.
But today well lived
makes every yesterday a memory
of happiness
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well, therefore, to this day....

~ ancient Sanskrit poem ~

there Comes A Time

When you reach that time, move forward, don't stand still

Believe In Yourself

Believe in yourself, and others will as well

Change

To change your thoughts changes your outlook on life

Victims

Unlike the previous article, this one is easy to find, easy to read and understand and best of all, when you read it, you can identify, you think to yourself, " Hey I know someone like that, wow that is so true " I hope you enjoy it and can use it to help improve your life as I am trying to

People love to play the victim. This absolves them of any personal responsibility. It also provides for an excuse as to why one did not succeed. After all, it was because of (fill in the blank).

Being a victim is a way to ensure you will never be successful. Always reaching for an alibi becomes a habit that will eventually stifle action. Take a look at the most successful people and tell me how many claim victimization. You will find this is not a common trait among this group of people.

read the rest of the article at http://dennisharting.blogspot.com/2009/01/victimization.html

Seeds for a better life

I read as much as I can find on self improvement and motivation, the trouble Ifind is that you have to wade through pages of ads, sort out the good from the bad, figure out who is only promoting a new product to sell or a new workshop or a new 'break through' invention designed to help you, finally I find an article to read, sometimes it is worth the trouble finding it, sometimes it isn't.

Here is a snippet of one I managed to find which I find quite good, I have gone straight to the post to save you the hassle of fighting through all the ads on this site, you can find the rest of the article at

http://www.stevenaitchison.co.uk/blog/2009/01/25/planting-thought-seeds-for-a-better-life/

Many people don’t allow themselves the luxury of thinking big. I think this may be due to the fact that they don’t believe in themselves enough to allow themselves to think big.

In this article I wanted to give you a technique to start the process of thinking big and I wanted to tell you why it is important to think big.

Time, and time again

To realize the value of ONE YEAR,ask a student who failed his exams...
To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby...
To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper...
To realize the value of ONE DAY, ask a daily wage laborer...
To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet...
To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the train...
To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident...
To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics...
Treasure every moment that you have!!

YESTERDAY is history.
TOMORROW is a mystery.
TODAY is a gift. That's why it's called the PRESENT!!

Peace

Be at Peace with yourself

Never Give Up

This may be a cartoon but the message is the same, never give up in anything you try

Fear

Fear not, Dream well, Believe always

Take Charge of Your Own Life

An excert from a post on self improvement, this I will admit is one of the few writers I have subscribed to as I really get the feeling he is talking to you from experience. All too many times people who write about self improvement tend to 'talk down' to their readers, this writer does not, he is honest and open, he writes about things that a 'normal' person can relate to,


This is the mindset that you need to acquire if you are going excel in these trying times. It is obvious that the world is in a turmoil like we never saw before. Economically, we might be confronted with the worst situation in the last 3 generations. There is little that is encouraging about what is coming down the road. The prevailing belief is that times will get worse before they get better.

That being said, I hope that most realize what the cost of depending upon someone else is. Everyday we are seeing lessons of people who put their trust in another only to be let down. Take all the people who worked in the financial sector. Hundreds of thousands of them lost their jobs because of the financial crisis. Even if they were superior employees, they are out looking for work. Another example is the automobile industry. People operated under the belief the union would take care of them. Sadly, if the companies go out of business, the employees are out of luck.


read the whole post at http://dennisharting.blogspot.com/2008/12/take-charge-of-your-own-life.html

Change Yourself

Only you can instal the changes needed

Free to do anything

Once you have lost everything, your freeing yourself to follow your dreams

Life is Short

Life is Short, live life to its fullest, love life and all it contains and laugh often as laughter is the best medicine known to man

Life is a Lesson

Life is a Lesson, learn all you can each day