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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Emotions Are Energy In Motion

                               "The walls we build around us to keep sadness out 

                                                              also keeps out the joy."

                                                                     - Jim Rohn

                                                                                  

Our emotions are important and they communicate to us every day how we are feeling. It happens all day and every day. Sadness, anger, worry, guilt, jealousy and fear and are all examples of emotions and every day we have a wide range of them. Some of them have a high intensity and some might be of lower intensity.

The important thing is to learn how to release those emotions in a healthy way and don´t allow them to get stuck in your body.

"Emotions are energy in motion.

They need to move."

- Andrea Corso

Lets take sadness as an example...
All of a sudden you get a feeling of sadness in your body. The important thing to do when that happens is to allow yourself to feel the feeling. It takes about 90 seconds for a feeling to move thought the body. What we must learn is to be able to let that feeling flow through our bodies without giving it  meaning. Just stay with the feeling, feel the sadness and then let it go. Let it flow out of your body.

"When you accept your feelings without judgement,

you give them permission to melt away."

The problem is that we often attach meaning to the feeling and then we act on the feeling with some kind of addictive behavior.
You feel sad and instead of feeling the feeling, you give it meaning and then you find yourself digging through the refrigerator for something to eat even though you are not hungry. The problem is that we don´t allow ourselves to feel the feeling. It feels uncomfortable and we rather numb it with some kind of addictive behavior.
If we just allowed ourselves to feel the feeling, give it 90 seconds to pass through our body we would be doing just fine and we would save a trip to the refrigerator.

Of course if you haven't allowed yourself to feel your feelings for a while it might take some time to get the hang of it. But with practice and staying preset you will eventually be able to release the emotion without giving it meaning and acting on it with some kind of action that will not be empowering.

"Feel the feeling, but don't become the emotion.

Witness it. Allow it. release it."

Allow your emotions to flow.

Allow yourself to feel your feelings

You have the power within you to stay present and allow that feeling to pass though your body.

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