Never Give Up - Your Day Will Come

                                       "If you give up on your dreams, what's left?" 

                                                                     - Jim Carrey

Living your dream is earned every day.

The first step is showing up for your dream every day, no matter what. Even if it´s only for one hour.
No excuses.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Over time you will put in a lot of effort that will slowly start to pay off. 

"Never stop trying. 

Never stop believing. 

Never give up. 

Your day will come."

- Mandy Hale 

There is no such thing as overnight success. 

All successful people achieved their success by making daily choices.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. 

Never settle.

Promise yourself that you will never give up.

Any dream worth dreaming is worth the effort to make it come true.

Following your dreams will keep your soul alive.

"Never give up on a dream just because the time it will take to accomplish it.

The time will pass anyway."

- Earl Nightingale

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The Power Of Patience

                                                                   "Trust the process
                                                                 Your time is coming.
                                                   Just do the work and the results
                                                            will handle themselves."

                                                                     - Tony Gaskins

Do you know what one of the greatest enemies to your success, (whatever success is for you) is?

I know you probably don't want to hear this, but I will tell you anyway. 
It's PATIENCE.

Simple, but yet so complicated.
I know I struggle a lot with this. I know that I need to increase my patience muscle.
How about you? Does your patience muscle need a good workout?

Anything you want to accomplish will take time. The bigger the goal, usually the longer time it will take for you to reach it.
Patience... like faith, requires work.

Progress comes slowly. The formation of new habits and the breaking of old ones is no quick change.
I just want you to remember that hard work will pay off, and that worthwhile goals will take time to achieve.

"Patience is the acceptance that things can happen

in a different order than the one you have in mind."

- David G. Allen 

One thing that we must learn is to have patience while we also maintain our enthusiasm and industriousness when pursuing our goals. Good things will take time.
Also, when we are more patient while reaching our goals, the greater appreciation we will have of our success when it comes.

On our journey to reaching our goals we will encounter setbacks and adversity. Being patient in this situation will make it easier for us to bounce back and get back on track.

So, where in your life do you need to be more patient right now?

"Patience is not the ability to wait, but how you act while you are waiting." 

- Joyce Meyer

Be patient. Trust the journey, even if it doesn't make sense sometimes.

Everything is coming together.

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If You Don't Control Your Mind Someone Else Will

               "I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty shoes."

                                                                          - Gandhi

You are not your mind.

Your mind is part of you, just like your foot or your hand.

One problem with our mind is that it is very often a big drama queen or a soap opera script writer.
Our mind makes up a lot of incredible stories filled with drama, disasters, doom and gloom and fear of things that never happened and probably never will happen either.
So, remember you are not your mind, and you are not your thoughts.

You must learn to control your mind.
Manage it and train it to work for you, instead of against you.
Never negotiate with your mind, because you will not win.

Training and controlling your own mind are the most important skills that you can ever learn in terms of success and happiness. 

"You have two choices, 

to control your mind or to let your mind control you." 

- Paulo Coelho 


How do we train our minds?

First you must start my paying attention to your own thoughts.
I suggest that you write some of them down on a piece of paper and then sit down and evaluate these thoughts.
Ask yourself... is this really true?
Your mind will constantly produce thoughts, around 50 000 per day so you can't write them all down. But you will see a pattern after a while because some thoughts will return every day and several times every day.

Unfortunately, most of our thoughts are not supportive of our wealth and happiness.
As you identify these thoughts you can begin to replace disempowering thoughts with empowering ones.


Is it time for you to adapt a new way of thinking?

Decide that today your mind will be better if you start using more empowering thoughts.
Decide that you will no longer allow your thoughts to run you. Stop negotiating with your mind. Instead show your mind that you are the boss.

No thoughts lives in your head rent free.
You will pay for negative and disempowering thoughts in energy, happiness, health, wealth and time.

If you want to move ahead in your life and grow as an individual, you must start monitoring your thoughts and decide to turn disempowering thoughts into empowering ones.
You must have thoughts that will assist you in creating happiness, health and wealth.

When a disempowering thought appears, you can just say... "cancel or next or thanks for your help, but I don't need you anymore", and then replace it with a more empowering one.

Start practicing this way of thinking and your life will quickly change for the better.

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Be The Best Version Of You!

 

                            Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. 

                                               If you don't control what you think, 

                                                     you can't control what you do.

It is simple to improve on our lives and to get what we want, but it isn´t easy.

If it was easy, everybody would be living their dream life.

So why don´t we?

Because we are so busy waiting to feel like doing it.

I have news for you... You Will Never Feel Like It!

A lot of times we are waiting for something or someone to come along to inspire and motivate us.

What about if they don´t show up! What are you going to do then?

It requires discipline and motivation to live a happy and fulfilling life.

Both discipline and motivation are inner muscles.
You are responsible for growing and developing these inner muscles.
No one can do it for you.

In other words, you must do the work.

"Without self-discipline, 

success is impossible, period." 

- Loy Holtz

Most of us don´t ever feel like doing the things we really need to do. If you are waiting for the day you feel like doing something, you will be waiting a long time.

You just have to make yourself do the things that you really don´t want to do.

No one ever feels like going on a diet and eat carrot sticks and celery instead of doughnuts.

No one wants to spend an hour every night at the gym, while they could just hang out in front of the TV instead.

No one wants to get up an hour early to read and learn a new skill(s).

No one wants to read a book when they can hang out on social media.

You have to force yourself to do the things that you really don´t want to do so that you can be all that you are supposed to be. 

"Self-respect leads to self-discipline." 

- Clint Eastwood

You cannot wait around to do it until you feel like it.

You will never feel like it.

Just Do It!!!

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What Do You Really Want?

                                    "Never give up on what you really want to do."

                                                        - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Unfortunately, too often we will talk ourselves out of what we really want.

Why do we do this?

A lot of times it can be old beliefs and old feelings associated with our dream.
They will pop up in our mind and mess with us and with our self-esteem.
Things like past failures and doubts that we will ever be able to accomplish what we really want.

Can you remember how many times in your life that you have abandoned something that was important to you because of feelings like......

It is way too hard
There is not enough support
Not enough time or money to make my dream happen
People won´t like me if I pursue my dream
I am afraid to be too visible and to show the world who I am
I am too old or too young
I don´t know the right people
I can´t learn the skills I need to have to pursue my dream

How many excuses have you heard yourself use in your lifetime?
How many times have you abandon your new ideas?
How many dreams have fallen by the wayside?

Now this is not about judging yourself and your past.
This is about starting fresh, no matter what has gone on before.
It is about trying something new.
It is about letting go of your old beliefs and not to allow them to interfere or stop you. 

"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. 

If you don't, you'll find an excuse. " 

- Jim Rohn

The first thing you need to do is......
To visualize your desired outcome.
What do you really... really... really want?
Can you actually see what it is that you want for yourself and your life?

To be able to do this process you most likely need to spend some time alone.
Listen to your inner voice or dialogue.
Not the one that tells you to get busy and the one that keeps pushing you to look "out there".

Have some alone time and focus on your dream.
Spending time alone will start the process of discovering or re-discovering your dream.

Make sure you carve out some quiet time for yourself every day. Even if it´s only 5 minutes.
Increase little by little.

You don´t need to fill your life and your precious time with people or activities that undermine or sabotage your dream.

Just remind yourself that you deserve to live your dream.
You deserve to feel whole and empowered.
You are enough.

Sometimes you need to be alone, to find out who you really are and what you really want in life.

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Your Talents Are Precious Gifts Given To You

                                                                 "Use your talents.

                                  They are precious gifts given to you to put to work."

                                                                   - Robyn O'Brian

Did you know that every single person on this planet is designed from birth with their own special talents and abilities?

If you develop these talents and these abilities, they can enable you to accomplish almost anything that you want in life.
Everyone is genetically created to be able to do something extraordinary, something they enjoy doing, something they can do well and something they get great satisfaction from doing.

If you look back at your own life, can you think of something that has been responsible for most of your success up until now?

What have you done in the past that has given you the best results?

What have you done that has given you the most satisfaction?

If you look back on your life and you past, you will find clues that will guide you to your future. 

Celebrate your gifts and talents.

They made you unique.

Ask yourself a couple of great questions.

What am I good at?

What am I good at today?

What have I been good at in the past?

What do I enjoy doing?

What could I be good at?

What can I see myself doing in the future?

Take a few minutes to ponder on these questions.
Write down the answers. 

"Your talents are God's gift to you. 

What you do with them is your gift back to God."

Do you know your unique gifts and talents... and are you using them?

Right now, someone, somewhere needs what you have to offer.

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Dream Big and Never Settle

                                                       "Setting goals is the first step 

                                            in turning the invisible into the visible." 

                                                                    - Tony Robbins 

Most of the time we have very vague plans or a very unclear vision of what we want. Most of us want something to change or something to happen, but we don't sit down and actually decide on what we really want.

I want to lose some weight.

I want another job.

I want to start saving some money.

I want to become healthier and more fit.

I want my relationships to improve.

I want more energy.

I want to become more active.

I know these are all good intentions, but they won't get you very far. You have to become specific of what you want. Just wanting something is not enough for taking you all the way.

A lot of times we might have a lot of commitment, but we don't end up reaching our goals.

Commitment is great but there are a couple of things that you need to go along with your commitment.

A Specific Plan Of Action.

How are you planning to reach your goal?

You need a "road-map" that will take you from where you are to today, to where you want to be in the future. Put in writing and also put a specific time when do you want to have this goal accomplished. Just having a finish date will put the pressure on you to start working on your goal.

Also seizing the opportunity to take the action is a very important step. Being ready to seize the opportunity when it happens.

If you have vague plans... you probably will have vague results.

How are you going to be able to go from just wanting something to happen... to actually making it happen?

Be specific.

Write it down.

Take action and get started... TODAY!

Do something today that your future self will thank you for.

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Chase Your Dreams

  "Never give up on a dream just because the time it will take to accomplish it.
                                                     The time will pass anyway."
                                                            - Earn Nightingale

When we are trying to create something new or trying to reach a particular goal, we often feel frustrated by the amount of time it will take.

Most often we want the reward without having to do any or very little of the work involved.

That is never going to work. It will take hard work to be able to accomplish anything and to be able to reach our dreams.

A lot of times we get frustrated, and we quit halfway through the process or the journey.

Don´t quit. Anything worthwhile will take some time to create.

Instead, here are a few tips when you feel frustrated with your slow progress towards your goals and your dreams.

Give yourself a little more time to accomplish your dream.
A lot of people will overestimate what they can do in one year. And then they will underestimate what they can do in a few years.
It will take time.

Be more loving to yourself.
Be kind to yourself. You are doing the best that you can. Stop beating yourself up and stop being a perfectionist.
It will happen for you.

You have a lot to give
Sometimes we will lose faith in ourselves. We have doubts that what we want to do isn´t going to be important and we have doubts, and we often fear that we will not be able to pull it off.
You can make a difference.

Take time to develop.
Learn new things. Study. Read books. Take classes. Go to workshops and seminars.
Personal development. Learn about yourself - who you are.

Enjoy some of it on the way.
It is not the destination - it is the journey.

"There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream."

                                                                     - Unknown


Love yourself
Give yourself more time
Enjoy the journey

You are never too old to chase your dream. 

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Shift Your Focus

 

                                               "Where Focus Goes Energy flows."
                                                                   - Tony Robbins

There are things within our control and there are things that are outside of our control.

We need to identify and learn to discipline ourselves to focus on what we can control. 

When you shift your focus, 

you change your life." 

- Steve Rizzo

So many times, we continue to focus on things that we don't want in our lives. Instead, we need to learn to make a shift and figure out what it is that we do want instead and learn to focus on it.

We only have so much mental energy in one day... make sure you use it wisely. Don't waste your energy on things that you don't want in your life or cannot control.

"We don't see things the way they are,

we see things as we are."

- Anais Nin

Figure out what you really... really... really want and then shift your focus onto it.

Where in your life do you need to make a shift?

What do you need to stop focusing on and what do you need to start focusing on instead?

Shift your focus from where you are to where you want to go.

Focus on what you can do, not what you can't.

Remember... what you focus on you magnify.

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Keep Moving Forward

                                                        "I may not be there yet,
                                            but I am closer than I was yesterday."

Most of the times when we look at highly successful people, we see the end result.

We don't see the path they took to get to where they are today.

"The elevator od success is out of order.

You have to take the stairs... one step at a time."

- Joe Girard

We don't see all the steps they took, all the hard work and all the mistakes they made.

Remember that the journey of a thousand miles begins with one single step... and then another... and another.

"The secret to getting ahead

is getting started."

- Mark Twain

When we see the results that other people have achieved, we want the outcome, but often we don't want to take the journey to get there.

But all those successful people that we admire, they did take all those steps.

They didn't just appear on top of the mountain one day... they actually had to climb it.
One step at a time.

"Great things are done by a series of small

things brought together."

- Vincent Van Gogh 

And if it happens to be that the next step is a mistake than learn from the lesson and take it again. 

Your success in life will be determined based on the steps you take along the way.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy, 

I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

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