Today’s Motivation – No One’s Looking

No One’s Looking

Can you resist temptation, enticement, the lure of the unthinkable? You must. A person of integrity, honor and reputation loses all self respect if his or her principles are compromised even when no one is looking. Someone is always looking, you are.

"Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."

~Will Rogers, 1879-1935, Comedian and Actor

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Today’s Motivation – To Forgive

To Forgive

Way too much cerebral space is taken up by holding a grudge, being resentful or blaming another. You can free up a lot of mental power by forgiving. Some say that forgiving is “to give as before.” Try it this week. Look for more productive thoughts to take up your consciousness. Oh, and don’t forget to include forgiving yourself.

~Rick Lelchuk

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Today’s Motivation – Sights on High

Sights on High

Sights set on lofty goals draw us ever upward and onward. There is only one life to live and that is into a future of purpose, possibility and promise.

"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim; have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible."

~Orison Swett Marden, 1850-1924, Writer

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Today’s Motivation – Thoughts Appear

Thoughts Appear

Out of nowhere a thought emblazoned itself across you consciousness and stuck there for a moment. You entertained the thought and chose to hold onto it for another moment. The thought morphed like a caterpillar into a butterfly from thought to an idea and the idea took hold. It was a good idea. The idea moved you to action and things began to happen.

All from a silly little thought.  

“Plant a thought and futures appear!”   

~Rick Lelchuk

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Today’s Motivation – The Artist’s Eye

The Artist’s Eye

We are like the potter’s clay, the stone mason’s marble, the painter’s pallet. First there is nothing, and then there is something. Creativity begins in the mind’s eye of the artist.

"The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself."

~Deepak Chopra, author on mind-body medicine and spirituality

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Today’s Motivation – Your Only Life

Your Only Life

Once around is all we get. There is no do over, second chance or make up test. This, right now, right here, is your life, your only life.

“Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?”

~Eliza Dushku, an American actress

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Today’s Motivation – Faith In Self

Faith In Self

We are our own best friend and our most respected ally. Yet, for some reason we are also our fiercest critic. You would never stop believing in your family or your children. Find that same spirit to believe in everything you do. That’s the faith that’s required to achieve your entrepreneurial dreams.

"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self."

~William James, a psychologist and author

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Today’s Motivation – Standing Out

Standing Out

Innovation holds the key to a future. Copy what everyone else is doing and you’ll be lost in the herd. Look at a situation and see what is possible; hear something new in the same old, same old and you’ll go far. Touch people where they’ve not been touched before and you’ll be remembered, embraced and lead the crowd.

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought."

~Jonathan Swift, an Anglo-Irish essayist, satirist, poet, and cleric

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Today’s Motivation – Study Just One Hour A Day

Study Just One Hour A Day

The benefit of taking just one hour a day to study and learn can be measured in dollars and sense. Learning never stops; it is a lifelong endeavor or nothing at all.

"One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do."

~Earl Nightingale, was a motivational author and speaker

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Today’s Motivation – The Very First Day

The Very First Day

It matters not what’s gone before, be it success or failure, joy or sorrow.The past is the past and cannot be changed. The future lies beyond tomorrow, and neither the past nor the future should be permitted to fetch pain or strife. For when all is said today really, truly is the first day of the rest of your life.

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Today’s Motivation – Give It Up

Give It Up

If you know something there is little room to be creative. If you are certain of everything there is no space left to generate. Knowledge is useful to solve a problem, but somewhat restrictive to moving forward into nothing.

"To be successful, all you have to do is give up everything you know."

~Asara Lovejoy, human potential author and coach

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Today’s Motivation – Your Silent Greatness

Your Silent Greatness

Quietly, hidden deep within you, shrouded by doubt and fear and uncertainty, abides the greatness that you are. Take away the doubt, the fear, and the uncertainty and there stands before you the powerhouse that is you. 

"You are much grander than you think you are."

~Asara Lovejoy, human potential author and coach

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Today’s Motivation – The Speed of Money

The Speed of Money

"What does money like? Money likes speed.

That's the secret few know about money.

Money comes to those who act fast. If you think,

wonder, question, doubt, plan, meet, discuss,

or in any other way drag your feet,

money goes to the next person in line."

~Joe Vitale, a motivational author and coach

Today’s Motivation – Stick with It

Stick with It

“You can't go through life quitting everything.  If you're going to achieve anything, you've got to stick with something.”  ~From the television show Family Matters

“It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.”  ~Albert Einstein

“There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.”  ~Author Unknown

Today’s Motivation – Results, Results, Results

Results, Results, Results

"You are not paid to work hard. In fact, you are not paid for effort at all. You are paid for results. It's not what you do; it's what you get done."

~Larry Winget, personal success and business author and speaker

Today’s Motivation - Heaven on Earth Found!

Heaven on Earth Found!

It was never very far from where you thought it might be. It’s actually closer that you realize; a place of the divinely pleasing and the blissfully satisfying.

"Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find."

~Wayne Dyer, American self-help advocate, author and lecturer

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Today’s Motivation – True To Yourself

True To Yourself

Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet “This above all: To thine own self be true, and it must follow – as the night the day – thou cans’t not be false to any man.”

This is the true quest of mankind to not hide behind the veil of the false mask. If you are honest to yourself you cannot be dishonest to another.

"The authentic self is the soul made visible."

~Sarah Ban Breathnach, inspirational author

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Today’s Motivation – Joy in What You Do

Joy in What You Do

Fortunate is the man or woman who occupies his or her life with that which makes them joyous and fulfilled.

Fortunate can we all be.

"There is nothing more marvelous than doing something you love to do and getting paid for it. It ceases to become work, money, and effort; and it becomes fun, your expression of the joy of life."

~Stuart Wilde, author and lecturer on consciousness and awareness

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Today’s Motivation – The Awkward Years

The Awkward Years

We think the awkward years are reserved only for the young. It is not so. Adults who welcome and move through the awkward moment, the tricky encounter have the opportunity to expand more so than the child.

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."

~Brian Tracy, motivational speaker and self-help author

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Today’s Motivation – A Singular View

A Singular View

With your particular and very individual point of view you view the world from behind your eyes. No one else can see the world the way you do and, in fact, you cannot see the world the way anyone else does. True understanding and appreciation of another grows from this knowledge.

"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others."

~Anthony Robbins, an American self-help writer & professional speaker

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Today’s Motivation – The Wisdom of Wayne

The Wisdom of Wayne

"When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous."

~Wayne Dyer, Inspirational author and speaker

Today’s Motivation – Being the World

Being the World

You carry with you a unique gift, a gift that to someone else is very special.

“You may only be someone in the world, but to someone else, you may be the world.” ~Unknown 

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Today’s Motivation – Endless Choices, Infinity Defined

Endless Choices, Infinity Defined

Infinity goes on forever with no beginning and no end. We can only describe infinity by defining what it is not. It is near impossible for a human mind to grasp anything without limits. Standing in the unlimited is too uncomfortable.

However, humans are fortunate in that we live within infinity with every choice we make. Chopra sums it up…

"You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices."

~Deepak Chopra, doctor and mind/body/spirit author

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Today’s Motivation – Happy People

Happy People

"The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. they're full of eagerness, zest, and productivity. You can do this too!"

~Norman Vincent Peale. a minister and author, most notably of “The Power of Positive Thinking” and a progenitor of the theory of "positive thinking".

Today’s Motivation – Where are you going?

Where are you going?

The past holds many secrets and many of us choose to operate from that place. But, the past is in the past and cannot be changed. It will hold you back as easily as will a ball and chain.

Release the past; do not be constrained by what has happened, focus solely on the life you are living into.

"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going."

~Brian Tracy: Personal and business development author, lecturer, consultant

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Today’s Motivation – Dreams to Dust

Dreams to Dust

Countless are the times that your dreams have been thwarted, when swarms of obstacles block your desires and masses of difficulties and complications hinder. The time is then to exhibit character, regroup and press on.

“When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.”  ~Author Unknown

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