goals
Understanding your goals to help you achieve them.
Sticking to Your New Year's Resolution
We are 24 days into the new year. As the calendar is renewed, two-thirds of America plans to better themselves. Nearly 40 percent of people want to either eat healthier or get more exercise! Looking ahead into the calamitous future, only 25 percent stick with it after a month and about 8 percent complete their New Year’s Resolution. Whatever your goals may be, I am here to help you accomplish them. Take a look at these tips and see where you can incorporate them into your daily lives.
By Living The Dream5 years ago in Motivation
January 1
So the new year started 23 days ago. Exactly 23 days ago I created my new year’s resolution. I wonder how many people wait till the very first day of the new year to start change. Nonetheless, I was one of those who waited till January 1. Oh, the excitement! The wonderful feeling of another chance at change. Another opportunity for self-modification—whether physical, mental, emotional or all of the above. My new year’s resolution went something like this—I will speak my mind, express my feelings and stop putting others before myself. My new year’s resolution was all about self-care, emotional well-being, and above all, my own sanity. Finally, a little push to motivate the new me to emerge once more. Wake up the strong minded, strong willed me who has been sleeping inside for quite some time.
By Stephanie Gallegos5 years ago in Motivation
How Far Will You Go?
That’s a pretty broad question but it depends on your situation. For example, how far will you go for love? Would you endure a long distance relationship? Would you travel and start a new life, in a new place for the one you love? How far will you go for wealth? Could you take a leap of faith to pursue your career over working a regular job, even though there’s no guarantee? Over the last 3 years I’ve observed that everyone has their own limits.
By Null Null5 years ago in Motivation
What's Stopping You?
A single decision, a single word, thought, and action can completely re-track your life on the path to success. As easy as 1-2-3. When you're focused & understanding of what stress and failure will come when you embrace this challenge of being the "next big thing."
By Spencer Schmidt5 years ago in Motivation
I Don’t Know About You, But I’m Not Quite Sure What to Do
It’s been 2 months since I turned the age Taylor Swift felt so inclined to document about in song form. The song may depict that when someone turns this age, they take a carefree approach to life, with many decisions being driven by debauchery and promiscuity.
By Sam Farrell5 years ago in Motivation
What's the Plan?
“When would you like to meet again?” Jason asked. Glancing over, I was shocked to see his calendar. He had scheduled everything from the moment he woke up until the moment he went to bed! Laundry, grocery shopping, reading, journaling, exercise, Bible study… you name it. It was probably there!
By Natasha Boehm5 years ago in Motivation
Resolutions Are for Losers
If resolutions weren't lame, then I would sit down and think about how I want my year to go and what I wanted to do better in, but the truth is resolutions are for losers. Does anyone even win with them? The number one people fail is to be healthy and lose weigh. No one, well, almost no one sticks to that one. Just like no one sticks to drinking less coffee, soda pop, or alcohol, eating less candy and sweets. Why does no one choose to love their partner more? Or to spend more time with family? Have more date nights with their spouse? Why not choose to be more romantic? Why not get more involved in your kids' events?
By Amanda J Mollett5 years ago in Motivation
The New Year
It's that time of the year again! I have mixed feelings every time the year comes to an end. It's exciting if you have had a crappy year because most of us are looking for redemption, so we pump ourselves up for the new year thinking this year will solve all our problems. Am I right? Or is this just me?
By Not Important5 years ago in Motivation
Failure
There is the phrase that explains that failure is only good if you learn from your mistakes. To this I must disagree. Failure is good if you get up again. There is no way to not learn something from failure. We have this false illusion that we are in control. Therefore it can actually put you into a worse state if you follow the first way of looking at failure. I can see you sitting there pondering whether... "Did I learn from my mistake this time"? There then comes the battle with your ego and you regret that you did or didn't do something. I know what this is like as I've been there. Thankfully, there is no way not to learn something from failure. My good friend Paul recently opened my eyes to this even more. He has recently thrown in the towel on his business. Over the past few years he started his own company making creative marshmallows and crafting them after the wonderful experience of having S'mores when camping. His company was called Stuff'n Mallows. He told me that when he was interviewed by large companies, the first thing they wanted to know was how many times the entrepreneur had failed. This life is a process of getting up and climbing another mountain. I really go back to the bubble analogy. When I was a child I would sit there and examine bubbles. I would look at them and try to determine when they would pop. I would look into their creamy outline and see the colors swish around. What I noticed was that when the surface became perfectly clear that was the moment in which they popped. Only when they were void of color did this happen. I think in many ways this is a metaphor for life. We're always climbing another mountain in the motivation and delight of becoming a little more pure. Awakening happens when our bubble pops. Struggles will still occur, mountains will still have to be climbed, but our perspective on how we view the next path will not be centered around effort. In this form, the life process becomes effortless. Perhaps we're all bubbles. You could say that we're "slow dancing in a burning room" as John Mayer has told us. It puts a romantic edge to the process of life, but I'm going with bubbles today. So go examine a bubble for yourself. Let me know what you think. Color is the spice of life itself. It can tell so much about us. Sound is color, I feel. It's that realization that the presence of those difficulties and hoops and swings is what makes the juice worth the squeeze. I'm imagining watermelon juice, but you can choose lemon or orange if you so desire. The world is your oyster.
By Sound And The Messenger5 years ago in Motivation
Volunteers
Throughout history, there is a subject that has not received the amount of attention that it deserves. The subject that I am speaking of is the word "Volunteers." As the years have passed with names reaching out from the past and to the future to prompt us of those who have gone before us, the word volunteer should be included with these names. The reason that I mention this is for the fact that all the options seem to fade into the background when it comes to this subject.
By Shelly Bartley5 years ago in Motivation