Tag: motivation
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Failure and success
What experiences in life helped you grow the most? Failure has given me some of the most defining experiences of my life. It made me pause in my tracks, question my direction, and challenge the beliefs I once held with certainty. In those moments of disappointment, I was forced to confront what I thought I…
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I see you.
Maybe it’s not all of you, but I see a lot of you, more of you than you purpose to give. The joy, the smiles, the depth. I see the fire, the zeal, the intellect, the wisdom, the hustle, the grind, the power of your will. I see how you knock down walls, how you…
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Take a pause
Life can move so fast; sometimes at my busiest, I don’t remember on Friday what happened on Monday. There have been too many microevents. It’s better to take a pause. Stop and look around before you miss life as it is unfolding. The world as it is today seems to have different settings in this…
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My little brother is my inspiration in this season….
…….and quite frankly, he is putting an indelible mark on me. This boy is 12. He has such a strong build for this age and thinks like he’s walked on this earth surface before. Some people get this while others don’t, as they voice observations that come off as completely indifferent to a child’s emotions.…
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The same time will pass anyway
That thing you keep putting off, that thing that’s tedious and takes long… Your desire, a dream that now lingers in the back of your mind like a memory; it now plays like a movie you’ve seen before. It’s because you’ve imagined it so many times it feels like you’ve lived it. It will take…
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No one can love you like you…
…cause no one knows you like you. No one knows the baby in you that needs soothing like you. No one has experienced your joy like you have, born your sorrow to its depth, seen life through your lenses, felt the longings of your heart, dreamed the dreams of your mind, lived the insecurities of…
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Make mistakes …
“Make mistakes but don’t regret them. Regret is the hardest thing to carry when you get older.” This is the best advice I have heard today. Recently I had a huge imposter syndrome moment which is largely attributable to a period in which I had a long spell of fails and losses. I had lost…
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To dream
“Sometimes the ultimate dream is to be able to dream at all.” If there is anything a child should be given in their childhood and possibly to every adult daily on their lofe’s journey, it should be the space and the freedom to dream and the tools to act on their dream.
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You are powerful beyond measure.
One of my favorite quotes as a child was from the movie Akilla; “Your greatest fear is not that you are inadequate. Your greatest fear is that you are powerful beyond measure. “ ~A~ You have exactly what you need to do and be exactly who you should be – your truest self. It is…
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Hope against cynicism.
There is nothing quite so sad as a young cynic; because it means they have moved from knowing nothing to believing nothing. Maya Angelou “To be sceptical is to say I’m willing to explore and learn and question. To be cynical is to say it is not true because nothing is ever true. To be…
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Hope is not blind optimism…
“Hope is not blind optimism. It is rather the complete belief that our natural aspirations for truth, meaning, and purpose will come to full practical realization.” ~Unknown~ I would wish that everyone has hope. Hope is what helps the farmer to sleep at night in peaceful assurance that what he has planted is growing even…
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The man in the arena.
Let me borrow the words of this wise man, Theodore Roosevelt. He says, “ It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,…
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Commitment and consistency – Quote
” Without commitment you’ll never start. But more importantly without consistency you’ll ever finish” ~ Denzel Washington~
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Cultivate good habits.
Our thoughts influence ur actions, our actions repeated become our habits. We become our habits. When a muscle or a group of muscles is held in a particular position, they assume the shape, length and position that they are held in. That’s what our habits do. Today I choose to cultivate good habits. Simply taking…
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Make those steps, create your path.
Simply start. After-all, sometimes a good plan executed today is better than a perfect plan saved for the future.
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Speak courage to yourself.
You might feel like everything is falling apart. Sometimes the burden you bear may feel like you are walking around carrying a giant tumor. No, you won’t crumble. You are stronger than you know. Let your underestimation fill your determination. Don’t listen to the voices that echo your limitedness but rather look at the qualities…
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Stay at it…
Keep working on your craft and be the master of it. It really is easy to give up on something when we work on it for long. If in your heart you know that you’re on a course that you have chosen to lead you towards your goal, don’t just give up. Learn, unlearn, relearn.…
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Just do You.
I have heard often times that trying to please everyone is a sure way to failure. I believe it is true. Come to think of it. If you attempted to please everyone, you would have to meet the tastes and expectations of each of those people simultaneously and then yours too. How exhausting ! The…