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"Opportunities don't happen. You create them," and other quotes to propel you forward.
20 Quotes To Help Drive Us To Succeed
What does it feel like to succeed in life? What does it feel like to achieve our dreams and goals? What does it feel like to accomplish a task or a purpose? What does it feel like to experience achievement? Success is merely defined as "the accomplishment of an aim or purpose, or the attainment of fame, wealth, or social status". There is nothing definitive about exactly what success is though, and the reason being is that success is different to every single one of us. We each have our own definition of what success looks like. Success may be something simple like completing a 30 minute run in the morning, prior to heading off to work. Success may be having the best family life we could envision. Success may be a long lasting loving relationship. Success may be earning a promotion at work. Success may be possessing $1 million worth of wealth in our bank account. Success has no limits or boundaries. It's actually ourselves who define what success is. Personally, I believe success is just another word for happiness. Success naturally generates the emotions and feelings of happiness, joy, satisfaction, and fulfillment, because we have accomplished something, so it's fair to say when we have achieved something that has brought us happiness, that is success. The next question though is what level of success are we happy with? The example above of completing a 30 minute run before work in the morning, I wouldn't class as a high level of success. I would say it's more so something to proud of, in the fact we had the energy and willpower to get off our butt and be exercising. I class it as low level success, because it's an achievement that brings us temporary happiness and satisfaction, rather than ongoing. The happiness, satisfaction, and fulfillment I'm referring to, when it comes to success, is indefinite.
By David Stidston5 years ago in Motivation
20 Quotes To Encourage Us To Think Positively
It's intriguing to note the difference in how various individuals react and respond to times of hardship, adversity, and challenge. Some curl up into a ball, feeling sorry for themselves, and try to hide away from the world. Some opt to whinge and complain about their circumstances, before taking their frustrations and anger out on others. Then there are those who take it in their stride, understanding that life is filled with such adversity, so they go about being proactive, and begin working towards resolving their issues. In telling someone who is facing such circumstances, to keep strong and to think positive, you will find their reaction to us would be on par with how they responded to the actual adversity itself. You will quite often hear the good old "how can I possibly think positive when there is nothing to think positive about right now?". Speaking as someone who has depression, I can sure say I've been guilty of both saying and thinking in such a manner, in the past. When it feels like the world is falling apart around us, and everything seems to be going against us, it's extremely hard but to not think anything but negative thoughts. We feel stressed, we feel angry, we feel anxious, we feel overwhelmed, and we feel extremely worried about the future. Such a circumstance or event, or maybe even a string of circumstances and events, have led us into this dark place of worry, uncertainty, pain, and suffering, and it can often have us feeling like there's no way out. Something has completely turned our world upside down, and the future begins to look grim for us. For someone to then turn around and tell us to keep strong and positive, how can we even do that? We are hurting bad, and yet we are told to think positive. Really? Absolutely! We should always be identifying the positives in life, no matter our circumstances, because there are more positives in our life than we ever give appreciation and acknowledgement for.
By David Stidston5 years ago in Motivation
20 Quotes To Inspire Us To Make Every Moment Count
When we were young, it felt like the days would last forever, and we had all the time in the world. As we have begun to age though, all of a sudden we have started wondering where the time has gone, and we are amazed at how quickly the days continue to pass us by. The most precious gift we have been given in life, after life itself, is time. Time is a double edged sword however. Time is a blessing, as it allows us to create memories, to laugh, to enjoy life, to relish in happiness, to generate success, and to cherish moments with our family and friends, but it can also be our greatest enemy, because if we don't use it effectively, efficiently, and beneficially, it leaves us with huge regret and sadness. Time is one of the most precious gifts we are given in life because it provides us with opportunity, a chance to spend the time we have being filled with love, happiness, positivity, joy, and gratitude. Time is a surprise gift though, yet it's only a temporary one, because we don't know exactly how much of it we actually have. We are basically handed a time bomb to which we know is guaranteed to blow up at some stage, but that element of surprise is not a good thing, as we have no idea when it will explode, and our life will come to a conclusion. We have that time bomb attached to us from the day we are born, and although at such an early age, we have no concept about time and it's preciousness, that time bomb is set to explode on a certain date, and it's a date that we never have any insight to throughout our entire life. Some people are blessed with numerous days, and live well into their elderly years, whilst others aren't so blessed, and sadly lose their life at an early age.
By David Stidston5 years ago in Motivation
20 Inspiring Quotes About Sacrifice
April the 25th is a day of significant importance, reflection, and remembrance for both Australia and New Zealand, as it was on this day back in 1915 in which the Australian and New Zealand armed forces landed at dawn on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey, where they would first engage in World War 1. It was a campaign devised to capture Constantinople and the Ottoman Empire, and eliminate them from further engagement in the war, as they were a close ally of Germany, however it would end up being a costly move, as the Australian and New Zealand troops, who formed the Allied expedition, would make up over 11,000 of the 56,000 lives lost in that battle. It is why the two countries have since reserved April the 25th on the annual calendar as a public holiday, and a day to remember and honor those who were prepared to sacrifice their lives in order to protect the lives of their countrymen, and all innocent civilians. Not only has Anzac Day become a day to honor and remember our fellow countrymen and women who did serve in World War 1, but also all those who have served in any wars and conflicts since. Talk about bravery and courage, these everyday average citizens of the two countries were called upon to defend our borders, to protect us and other innocent countries from the destruction and terrorism that the likes of Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire, were trying to inflict on the world. It would be an incredibly difficult assignment to take on, be it voluntarily or involuntarily, because they were heading offshore to place their own life at risk, in a bid to save others, hence we use today as our way of honoring and remembering all those who did place their life at risk, and all those who did lose their life.
By David Stidston5 years ago in Motivation
29 Quotes to Motivate You
Some days a motivational quote can provide a quick pick-me-up for employees and even management. They can be a breath of fresh air when it comes to a drab afternoon. These are also a great way to jazz up a newsletter or a memo or even to simply print and attach to a bulletin board. Using quotes like these are perfect ways to create a motivational and successful work environment.
By Dani McGaw5 years ago in Motivation
Combatting Creative Enemies
I held onto so many beliefs about myself as a creative, for too many years, that blocked me from reaching my true writing potential. I've had the same (well, not exact same at this point -- it has evolved) novel idea for 14 years. FOURTEEN YEARS ... that is more than half my life now! Why this long? Perfectionism. I have always believed in the idea (or at least, the general topic), but wasn't confident enough in myself as a writer to be the one to tell the story, and then as I got older I gained more confidence but there were also pieces still missing and it wasn't all QUITE right yet ...
By Kaitlyn Dawn5 years ago in Motivation
Motivational quotes in English from famous personalities to stay motivated always. Best Motivational quotes in 2021.
We often go through failure in life and become depressed and stop working. But failure is a part of life and we have to accept it to do better in the future. And that’s why we need to stay motivated all the time.
By Devesh Pareek (Digital expert)5 years ago in Motivation
Quotes to Live By
On Love: “The truest strength is shouldering the burden of care.” ~Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor “Love doesn’t make sense! You can’t logic your way into it or out of it. Love is totally nonsensical. But we have to keep doing it or else we’re lost and love is dead, and humanity should just pack it in. Because love is the best thing we do.” ~Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother
By Noah Glenn5 years ago in Motivation
6 Quotes By Buddha That Will Change How You See The World And Yourself
I personally love quotes. I regularly change my phone and laptop display to new quotes that inspire me, I write them down in my journals, I have them on my vision board, and at home, we even have them all over our walls and doors.
By Sinem Günel5 years ago in Motivation
Analysis Paralysis
Have you ever heard the phrase "analysis paralysis", or "paralysis by analysis"? The next question is, if you heard of it before, do you even know what it means? For those who are unsure what it's about, let me break it down into a more basic definition for you. Analysis paralysis is failing to act on something because you continually overthink it, halting the progress towards achieving that goal or task. Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you are presented with an assignment or task of some sort, maybe given to you by your boss at work, and in viewing it, you really have no motivation or ambition to complete it because it looks tedious, boring, or energy sapping, or maybe it feels uncomfortable to do? As it is something you really don't want to do, you then go about procrastinating over it, finding different ways of going about delaying to act on it for as long as possible. Being an assignment or task that must be completed though, and with your boss regularly checking in on your progress, you know you have to act on it in some manner, so you go about pondering different ways of attacking it and approaching it, perhaps writing some notes down, so it therefore looks like you are actually doing something, when the truth is, you are not actually doing anything about it at all. After a while of nothing but deliberation, your boss comes over to you and asks why you haven't actually made a start on your assignment, to which you show them your notes, only for them to point out that you're overthinking it and you just need to do one particular action, which you know full well that was all you needed to do in the first place, but you just couldn't be bothered. You're left with no choice but to do that action, you're forced out of your comfort zone, and you end up completing the action, much to your displeasure. That's an example of analysis paralysis, and a situation where we choose to overthink something in a bid to avoid getting stuck into the actions.
By David Stidston5 years ago in Motivation
