Leadership

“If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.”

—Harvey Mackay

"Most people are not going after what they want. Even some of the most serious goal seekers and goal setters - they're going after what they think they can get."

Bob Proctor

The Stuff We Collect

[by Matthew Teller]

On a shelf I’ve got a fragment of thin, carefully painted 2,000-year-old pottery I picked up years ago in Petra – but I don’t look at it much.

That blue Michigan license plate from the Chrysler Something I bought way up by the Canadian border, drove to Mississippi and then bounced up and down San Francisco’s hills is on top of a bookcase. In the attic.

Somewhere tucked away is the bag of Dhofari frankincense Mabkhot Al Amiry pressed into my hand. The olive-stone necklace Umm Asad made on her porch by the Dead Sea tomato fields is chucked in with tutus and tiaras at the bottom of a play box. I kept the chunky watch that a Russian soldier insisted I take after we shared a train compartment to Warsaw, less than six months after the Berlin Wall came down – but I’m not sure where it is. The point-toed leather slippers from Marrakech weren’t a pair when I got them, and they still aren’t now. I bring out the bespoke Cairo robe, perfect for a summer evening, and my wife rolls her eyes.

Stuff we collect. A minute of life-affirming richness. Then years of dead weight, pinning us to the past, wreathing everything we do – or try to – in the stale breath of the way things were.

On a twilit Pyrenean border road it had taken us all day to hitchhike from Montpellier. I was on my knees, begging cars to stop. One did. C was in the passenger seat. Twenty years on, he’s a bit like a brother.

In Amman, T was on one end of the group of friends who’d adopted me; I was on the other, newly single and hurting. It was a reckless time. I barely remember her. Twelve years later she tweeted hello. Now she laughs while pushing my kids in the park swings.

Then there was chopping vegetables with A in her kitchen in rural Massachusetts, more than a decade after those Tel Aviv deckchairs. The sweaty hotel room in Delhi with A. The long detour next week, to see M in Paris.

Never mind stuff. Collect people.

"Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken"

Ludwig van Beethoven 

Daily Motivation - 4 Ways To Inspire You Toward Your Goals

[By Rhodri Jones]

Every experience that each of us has impacts us, either in a positive way or a negative way.

Negative experiences can leave us troubled and disillusioned, however positive experiences can greatly improve our optimism and daily motivation.

Daily motivation is the fuel that drives us to improve our lives, achieve our goals and become better people.

Here are some ways to increase your daily motivation so you achieve so much more in your life:

Setting Meaningful Goals

Having goals is vital. They are the key motivator that drives you to succeed. A life without goals is like a boat without a rudder... drifting aimlessly with no direction and no end destination.

Important, meaningful goals motivate you to take inspired action toward achieving what you desire. It also helps keep you focused and driven when you come across challenges and difficulties

When setting any goal, it is very important however, to take small progressive steps toward achieving it. Breaking a goal down into small, baby steps will prevent you from becoming overwhelmed and help maintain a positive attitude to keep you moving forward.

A Positive Attitude

As I've just mentioned above, a positive attitude will help keep you motivated to continually move forward toward your goal. If you believe that your goal is too difficult and that you won't achieve it, then I can say with one hundred percent certainty that you will be right.

A negative attitude will sabotage any chance of you achieving what you want. Your subconscious mind feeds on your inner chat, and if you constantly tell it that you can't and won't achieve a particular goal it will prove you right every single time.

Your mind is extremely powerful, and you'd be a fool to underestimate it. Feed it with positive thoughts and it will grant you whatever you want. GUARANTEED!!!!!!!

Religion

I accept that not everyone is religiously inclined, but for many (me included) religion helps greatly in improving their daily motivation. Religion, irrespective of what kind you follow can help harness a strong faith and internal motivation within an individual.

It can also ensure a mindfulness and inner peace, so you can better deal with and overcome the challenges that life regularly throws in front of you.

Desire To Live

We've all been given the greatest gift of all...and that's the gift of life! None of us will be on this planet forever, so is there a greater motivation than living life to the max and getting the very most out of every day? I think not!!!!!

Yes, life at times will be hard, but the thing to remember is that these hard times are temporary...they won't last forever. Good times are always just around the corner for you.

Having daily inspiration to live life to the full and achieve all we can is something none of us should pass up on. A desire and motivation to live life to the full is the least we can give in return.

If you want to accomplish more in life and become that person you've always wanted to be then you have to do whatever it takes to make it happen.

Your dreams and goals will never be realized unless you acquire an incessant drive and daily motivation to take inspired action that keeps you moving forward.

Your ability to motivate yourself is crucial to you realizing your goals. Motivation is the force that keeps driving you forward toward achievement and success. Go and discover the daily motivation and success formula that will fast track you toward a life that's rich, abundant and happy.