It’s not only about reaching your goals and objectives. It’s about what you become on the way to achieving them.
It is with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint Exupery.
Living well, with purpose and a sense of joy doesn’t just happen. Life isn’t about finding yourself. It is about living with your eyes wide open and creating your own reality.
If you are stuck and can’t seem to move on, carve 12 minutes out of your day and watch this Issac Lidsky Ted Talk. You’ll get it.
Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don’t give up after a mistake, when something doesn’t come easily, but we throw ourselves into trying when we are not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished. Sharon Salzburg.
The people who are good in the long run often stumble along the way. The path isn’t always smooth. Making mistakes is part of the game. Every misstep is another chance to grow a little more and be better the next time.
It’s all about your attitude. Being good in the long run is the result of your critical thinking, tenacity and continuing faith in yourself and in your own abilities.
Sure, a little luck helps, but a funny thing is, the smarter and harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.
The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it’s really a different kind of life. Buckmaster Fuller.
Are you somewhere in your middle years, grappling with the issue of personal growth, thinking there must be more to your life than what you see around you right now? Do you sense something is missing?
Just going through the motions? Been there, done that.
Relax, you are not alone. Today, more than ever, many are searching for answers and a deeper meaning for a life that they feel is theirs alone and a lifestyle with a more human dimension. Usually it is an indication that they have stopped growing and that is time to have another look at things.
Growing is a human condition. For many, it is about advancing, moving ahead. They think growth leads to rewards like money, travel, applause and all the good things that make life more fulfilling and interesting. They measure their success by what they have, their possessions, their status in society, their relationships and their accomplishments. That’s good, as far it goes.
But some find they can have all of the above and still not be satisfied. Strangely enough, getting what you want can make you happy, but over time it can also be a trap. Setting and meeting all your goals and objectives can actually inhibit your growth.
How can that happen, you ask? It’s not an uncommon experience. Paradoxically, it can happen when the actual act of achieving all that you set out to get begins to over shadow the reasons you set after them in the first place.
Many are often unaware of it happening until one day the excitement is gone. Boredom and ennui set in and they realize that they are bound up by what is euphemistically called “Golden Handcuffs.”
No longer happy with what they have or where they are, but not unhappy enough, or willing enough, to do something about it, this group is firmly ensconced is their comfort zone, a sure killer of creativity and spontaneity. It’s a place that snuffs out originality, innovation, new ideas and ways of looking at the broader world.
It is one of those forks in the road that we all come to at one time or another. Which road to take next? More importantly, why?
Moving out of a comfort zone isn’t for everybody. To believe there is something more up ahead takes courage, faith in your own abilities and in a greater Universe, but it really is a different life when you decide to listen to your heart, let go of the golden handcuffs and say yes to life.
When you want something, the whole Universe conspires to help you realize your desire. Paulo Coelho.
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear or hollowness of heart, just as any plans for the future won’t materialize by anyone who doesn’t have the capacity to live in the now.
Action separates dreams from reality.
If there is a project you’ve been meaning to do, something your intuition is telling you to start, trust yourself. Listen to it.
You are braver than you think, stronger than you seem and smarter than you give yourself credit for.
Now is the time. Get out there and do it. Taking action makes things happen.
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