Quotes - Moving Forward

"If you want something you have never had, be prepared to do something you have never done" -- Author unknown
"Your most powerful weapon against limiting thoughts is your willingness to clarify and envision what you truly want for your life." -- David McNally

"One of the most common precursors of cancer is a feeling of emptiness in one's life." -- Dr. Bernie Siegal
"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." -- Doris Mortman

"Evermore people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for." -- Viktor Frankl

Stop Doing That!

Hello Everyone :) It's been a while since I posted! I guess I was going through an extensive holiday slump. But here I am and it's a new year! 2011 presents a new opportunity to accomplish our dreams and to continue investing our time,energy and love in the things that matter and make us happy! Speaking of that... How are those new year resolutions going? Like most of you, I've made a  list of my own and have been tackling it full force (on most days). Nonetheless I do struggle with "finding" time to devote to the things I want to accomplish.  With that in mind, I want to share this small article I came across from the 48Days newsletter which discusses very wisely the subject of priorities and time management.

Enjoy! 

STOP DOING THAT!

If there’s one reason I hear more than any other for failed New Year’s resolutions, it’s “I just didn’t have the time.” Many times success in goals comes not by adding more to our busy lives, but by deciding what we’re going to STOP doing. When I stopped serving on boards and going to civic and committee meetings it freed up significant time that I now spend writing – which I consider my #1 priority.

What can you STOP doing to accomplish your goals?

“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

OUR SOUL

"Souls too, like rivulets and plants, needed a different kind of rain: hope, faith, a reason to live. When this did not come to pass, everything in that soul died, even if the body went on living; and the people could say: "Here in this body there was once a man." --Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

Quotes- Your life story

"You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand." - Irene C. Kassorla

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it." - James Matthew Barrie

"Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story." - Ashleigh Brilliant

"She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the parts of life she didn't like, embroider the parts she did and thus control the life she had." - Dudley Clendinen

"Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls." - Melody Beattie

"Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living." - William Throsby Bridges

"I used to be indecisive, now I'm not so sure"

From the 48days newsletter:

don't know of anything that can cripple hope and the possibility of success more than indecision.


I get rather impatient with some people when the mortgage is due, the children are hungry and the lights are about to be cut off and they are still just praying about what to do. I know what to do; quit hiding behind your pious excuse for inactivity - and start moving.

"Indecision and delays are the parents of failure." - George Canning, English statesman

One of Zig Ziglar's famous stories is of a childhood neighbor lady who pulled some biscuits out of the oven that were no thicker than silver dollars. When little Zig asked what happened, the cook laughed and said, "Well, those biscuits squatted to rise, but they just got cooked in the squat."

I see people who have gotten "cooked in the squat." They are going to do something just as soon as they gather all the necessary information. But weeks, months and then years slip by. Protected in the safety of gathering more information they miss new opportunities all together. A client told me he had gone to work at the local bank - just as a temporary position until he could do a little research about which career field to really pursue. Guess what? That was 17 years ago and he's still at the bank. The acceptable illusion of still getting ready robbed him of 17 years of his life.

When do you have enough knowledge to start something new? When you decide to take action! The baby eagle learns how to fly as he is heading straight toward the rocks below, not while sitting on the edge of the nest. The business owner learns while hiring, buying, and making mistakes more than while sitting in a classroom. The unemployed person approaches success while knocking on doors, making phone calls, and getting repeated rejections, not while scanning the Internet and reading textbooks.

"There is no more miserable human being than the one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision." William James

Don't get "cooked in the squat." It will cripple you!

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Want to be intelligent and average or creative and successful?

Article from the 48 days newsletter. WOW! Does it ring a bell? It definitely resonates with me... 

Studies over the last 50 years show children increasing in IQ. But since 1990, scores of creativity have gone down. Our children, and adults, are becoming less creative.

The accepted definition of creativity is production of something original and useful. Too much TV, video games and time indoors can be blamed. But standardized tests and the push to accumulate facts have added to the decline.

As adults, creativity will open opportunities more than intelligence. The average GPA of decamillionaires in America is 2.7. A 4.0 GPA can lead to very common jobs and careers. A lower IQ may allow for a more authentic and successful career path.

Here are some things we can do as adults to kill or increase our creativity.

Ways to kill creativity and idea generation:

1. Wallowing in self-pity

2. Blaming others

3. Giving up on dreams

4. Overreacting to criticism

5. Underestimating your opportunities

Ways to increase creativity:

1. Laugh out loud every day

2. Break familiar routines

3. Say to yourself, "I can do this."

4. Set aside 15 minutes daily for "thinking."

5. Read one non-fiction book a month

"A lot of what we think of as neurosis in this country is simply people who are unhappy because they�re not using their creative resources." Julia Cameron (The Artist's Way)

Free Will

Everything is permissible for me - but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible for me - but I will not be mastered by anything..
I Corinthians 6:12