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13 years ago 0 +0 / -0 4027

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
- Lou Holtz

Looking at my past and what i've done is a powerful leverage point for motivating myself towards looking at my potential...and then acting of course

13 years ago 0 +0 / -0 4027

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act. - George W. Crane

I did this exercise in a voice training course, where we were dealing with performance anxiety. We were asked to select celebreties or others who we admired, and imitate their successful behaviour. It was inspiriing!

13 years ago 0 +0 / -0 4027

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
- Jawaharlal Nehr

Keeping a laserlike focus will help

13 years ago 0 +0 / -0 4027

Sonia,

My best advice, although it was at work, was to "aim high". The trouble is that now I find I have to aim lower...since my energy isn't the same, and I have many more responsibilities with caregiving. So I use the "SMART" model(the acronym for planning)

Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true. - Saint Bartholomew

13 years ago 0 +0 / -0 270

Hello again hugs4U,

Good idea! Giving yourself a framework within which you will take on the day really can set the tone for how you choose to react to the day's events. Isn't it amazing how words can have such a profound effect on our actions?

Speaking of words and actions, here is my question for you tonight :

Members : what is the best advice you've ever received with respect to achieving your goals? What made this advice memorable for you ?

Sonia

13 years ago 0 +0 / -0 4027

Hi Sonia,

I just start my day with the quote, so it gives me a different view of life, since it is a great gift from an exceptional person in a moment of insight.

Some people have said that a song, or words of advice have transformed their lives.

I want to be open to the wonder of life, since life is finite

13 years ago 0 +0 / -0 270

Hi hugs4U,

Great point! Measurement is a great tool that can be used to keep goals front and centre. It offers us the accountability for and the high level view of our time which we may not have otherwise.

You mention that the site's quotes help you focus yourself ; can you please share with us how you use these quotes? Do you post them at your work station? Spend some time reading the quotes of others each day? Please let us know.

Sonia

13 years ago 0 +0 / -0 4027

Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success isn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never - yes, never - sell yourself short.
- David J. Schwartz

Although comparing can be unproductive, there are plenty of "average" people who achieve a lot, but have fewer redeeming qualities than ourselves. If they can "do it", why limit yourself?

13 years ago 0 +0 / -0 4027

Sonia,

I was thinking of whether I can keep my focus daily.

I had finished sifting for a time audit form, since I feel lost without measuring my time use. I realized at some point that I'd forgotten why I was sifting! These conditions on this website that we struggle, make it hard to focus, since I get interrupted by my uneasiness, and lose my way.

Seeing someone weekly, doing the homework, logging on daily when I need some connection, and using systems to keep myself organized(measuring things that are obstacles like the right amoutn of sleep, my tv use, my time online posting, etc), keeping myself physically active( working out every other day) pull me together.

The site's quotes help me focus myself emotionally sometimes since they are distillations of exception peoples' lives.

Mother Theresa said "..we do no great things, only small things with great love...." in my favourite religious book "Sabbath" by W Muller.

13 years ago 0 +0 / -0 270

Members,

Some fantastic quotes on this thread! How do you keep these wonderful ideas & philosophies front of mind when working towards your goals?

Sonia

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