Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your own experience. Dag Hammarskjold
So much of your success is directly related to the amount of trust you have in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are sometimes willing to believe.
Believe. The more you trust your intuition the more empowered you become and the happier you become.
These are difficult times, challenging even the most dedicated. Doing what you feel in your gut is what you must do is never easy and it takes courage, but without it you can’t sustain the effort you need to put in to make it all happen.
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson.
A client of mine called a few days ago to update me on her business. Sales were coming in, but slowly. She was stretched thin and feeling stressed out.
“I know I am not alone,” she said, “and I am doing all the right things, but it doesn’t seem to help. What can I do?”
Stay in control of your attitude, I replied. Spend more time looking for what’s good. Fully appreciate the good moments of the day. Remember that you have you been through tough times before and you will get through this time, too.
Keep things in perspective. Spend more time with family and friends. Eat properly. Exercise regularly. Get enough sleep.
Don’t dwell on what you can’t do. Work on what you can.
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need more humanity.More than cleverness, we need happiness and gentleness. Charlie Chaplin.
Charlie Chaplin died 37 years ago. He lived in another age and in another time, but if we just substituted the word ‘technology’ for ‘machinery’ in our age of the 24 hours news cycle, continually pumping out negativity and fear in an unending loop, he would have been as right today as he was then.
Everyone wants to live at the top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you are climbing it. Andy Rooney.
Of the many limitations we tend to put on ourselves, one of the greatest is the belief that we don’t have the talent or the natural ability we think is needed to do what we would really like to do.
How many times have you told yourself, “I couldn’t do that.” And so you turn away from your dream, back to the daily routine, to a thinner, less interesting life.
There exists the common idea that natural talent conquers all. It doesn’t. Not that natural talent isn’t a factor. Of course it is. But you need a lot of other attributes if you are going to pursue your dream; among them, a rock solid commitment, drive and patience.
You need to work at it everyday, remembering that one thing leads to the next. In order to live fully you need to be constantly in motion, use your time wisely and stay focused.
It is precisely the possibility of realizing a dream that makes life interesting, joyful and satisfying, but in order to live fully, to be fully engaged in pursuing your dream, you need to actually get started.
Use all the talent you have. Mix in your experience and heart. Jump right in. It wot be easy, but in those moments – and there will be some days when you wonder how in the world you are going to make it – crank up your courage and keep on.
