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10 Quotes To Inspire You For The New Year Ahead
Firstly, a massive Happy New Year to you and your family! We farewell what has been an extremely difficult and challenging year, with adversities at an extent we have never faced before. COVID-19 has completely changed the complexion of the way we live, and there is still much to be done with containing the virus before we are able to return to the sort of normality we are used to. Be it on a global scale, a national level, or even just on a personal level, adversity and challenge is always going to be part and parcel of life though. In this knowledge, it then comes back to how we deal with it. We can choose to curl up in a ball, shut the door on life, and hide ourselves away from the world, in the false hope that things will get better by themselves. We can wave our hands in the air, play the victim of life, whinge, complain, and again, live in the false hope that things will get better by themselves. But what we should be doing though is embracing the adversities and challenges that life throws at us, be seeking the opportunity of what life is trying to teach us, and be proactive in using the potential within us to be creating a solution, as it's by doing so that we learn, grow, develop, and mature, in life. That experience helps strengthen us, and can ultimately help lead us to success. Despite whatever challenges and adversities lie ahead for us in 2021, with the right attitude, behavior, and mindset, this year can become one of great success, satisfaction, fulfillment, happiness, and prosperity for us. The new year always brings us great opportunity to identify what we desire for our future, what goals we want to achieve, and how we wish to live our life. It can be a time where we set resolutions, but for the vast majority of people, such resolutions don't last any longer than February, making them fruitless. We need to gain a clear understanding of exactly what our main goal in life is, to achieve. It needs to be a goal that drives us, and that drive will only ever be present if we have an internal emotional attachment to what we want to achieve. It needs to be a goal that we would do anything for, in order to achieve it, one that we will never allow ourselves to give up on. It needs to be a goal that pushes us to continually persevere and remain resilient, even despite all the failures, setbacks, rejections, and challenges, we face along the journey. Once we can get clear on such a goal, then we need to start doing the hard work. We need to be making changes, taking risks, making sacrifices, and applying ourselves to the actions that are working towards that goal. There are a few years of hard work and sacrifice ahead of us, but in the long run, it will well and truly be worth it. The thing is, now is the time to start that journey! Now is the time to set that goal, and start working on creating a future that is blessed with success, happiness, satisfaction, fulfillment, and prosperity, for ourselves. Despite all that's happened in years gone by, today becomes a totally fresh start. You deserve all the rewards and blessings that life can bring, but only you can prove you are indeed worthy of that, and again, that is all dependent on your attitude, behavior, and mindset. 2021 can become the year that you positively transformed your life! Here are 10 quotes to inspire you to get motivated for the new year, and to start taking action on building a future that is filled with success, happiness, and prosperity.
By David Stidston6 years ago in Motivation
The Phoenix Guide: 2020
Every year the holidays make their way back around. This means different things for each of us. Some of us spend our days shopping for family and friends, then spend our nights sleeping in heavenly peace while warm and snug in our beds. Some of us struggle throughout the year-financially, physically, mentally, emotionally, and/or spiritually-and would love to be able to skip the holidays altogether. Some of us don't celebrate the holidays because it's just not something we do. The holidays are known for bringing happiness, sometimes magical miracles, and let's not forget stress! This year in particular, however, has brought with it a very different holiday season. Even for those of us who choose not to celebrate the holidays, I think it's safe to say that this year, we all have a reason or two to be thankful. Just making it to the end of this year is a major accomplishment in itself- and that alone deserves some recognition at the very least.
By The Magic Mirror6 years ago in Motivation
Three Day Contemplation
You don’t realize how significantly words can evolve until you provide space to contemplate them over time. For this assignment I chose one of Thich Nhat Hanh’s quotes from page seventy- nine; “If one wants a calm sea one cannot get it by suppressing the stormy sea. One must wait for this same sea to become calm”. I decided to break up the quote on day one and two and consider it from different lenses on day three and four.
By Amanda 6 years ago in Motivation
The way we think can make or break us in many ways.
Thought's Well, that's what we are here to discuss and by the end of the lesson, understand. First, we must come to a realization of the changes we want to establish for ourselves. We need to become aware of what it is we are intending to change in order to have it be possible to even make a change.
By Ray "The-Visualist" Cooper6 years ago in Motivation
Only you will be able to make changes in 2021
Let me begin by telling you that this is not that one post that you read, absorb, and continue to ignore for most of your life. What I'm about to tell you is a fundamental truth, that you and only you should carry with you for the rest of your life. Unlike all the other posts you may have read and seen that start by telling you a long and lengthy story, trying to convince you to buy some weird self-help routine, or some program that you aren't sure will even work. I'm going to tell it to you straight.
By Jesse Kariuki6 years ago in Motivation
I told my husband that I wanted to write a book.
I told my husband that I want to write a book. The truth is I have no idea what I would write about. I like the feeling of stroking my fingers against the keys of the keyboard, and seeing where my mind takes me. I do wonder what kind of book would capture an audience, but deep down I don’t actually care. The catharsis of writing in and of itself is enough. At least, it should be.
By D. Marie6 years ago in Motivation
These 6 Lessons I learned in 2020
Finally, it's over! The year which the majority of us hated is finally coming to an end. Can we be more thankful? Perhaps, or perhaps not. At the end of every hardship, we are left with plenty of lessons, and for 2020 I cannot stress enough.
By Shahnaseeb Babar6 years ago in Motivation
Don't Let Your Dreams Be Just Dreams!!
Don't give up!! There's always a way!! It's always been my dream to make money doing what I love, writing stories. But I always thought it was just that, a dream. I was always told that there was no way that I could find good pay for doing that, that I was just wasting my time. But I never believed it.
By C. Ford6 years ago in Motivation
