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“Don’t bury your failures, let them inspire you.”
Inspiration is often the spark that leads to meaningful action; and one great but under appreciated source of inspiration is actually failure. However, when we fail, we tend to want to forget it ever happened as quickly as possible. But as this quote by Robert Kiyosaki suggests, we shouldn’t bury…
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“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing [themself].”
I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
“To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.”
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“Sometimes failure is the beginning of success.”
This quote comes from a novel by Astrid Scholte. It makes us imagine ourselves accomplishing a particular goal with our first step or attempt being falling flat on our face. It reminds us that sometimes there’ll be failures on our road to whatever destination we’re trying to reach. And sometimes…
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“It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.”
This quote, by Benjamin E. Mays, reminds us that having goals puts us at risk of disappointment, because we may not reach all of them. So we might be tempted to not have any goals at all. If there’s nothing we’re trying to reach, then we’d never have to feel…
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Living Life Poetically: Dream Catchers
“Dream Catchers” is a poem inspired by a conversation I had with someone close to me. They had good intentions. But my goodness, talking to them was such a buzzkill. I felt like I had to defend every decision I was making toward my personal goals and objectives, and every…
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“The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.”
In a marathon, the runners typically stop running at the finish line. We don’t see anyone of them deciding to run an extra mile because the finish line is simply where the race ends. This saying about following the crowd, likely by Francis Phillip Wernig (aka Alan Ashley-Pitt), is similar…
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“The distance between your dreams and reality is called action.”
Whatever your current reality is, it can sometimes feel far away from your dreams. Adding to this is the fact that it’s hard not to see all the roadblocks you’ll face along the way. Therefore, the perceived distance between your dream and reality can feel both long and strenuous. This…
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“If you can’t stop thinking about it, don’t stop working for it.”
Sometimes the things that often occupy our thoughts are our unfulfilled goals and ambitions. Moreover, they have a way of nagging at us no matter how much time has passed or how many failures we’ve experienced in their pursuit. Fortunately, there’s a great way to silence these thoughts. Simply put,…
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“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
“Life is like a camera. Focus on what’s important. Capture the good times. And if things don’t work out, just take another shot.”
“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
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“The best way to ensure success is to never lose energy because things aren’t going as fast as you want them to.”
Whether you’re trying to get healthier, advance your career, or hit a new milestone, it’s easy to get impatient. Things may not happen as quickly as you hope. And as you grow impatient, your motivation tends to wane. When you lack motivation, your goals take even longer to accomplish. And…
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“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
In the story of Cinderella, the glass slipper fits one person and one person only: Cinderella. However, realistically, there would be others with the same shoe size while there would be those whom the same shoe doesn’t fit. It’s a simple fact of life that we can’t all wear the…
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“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”
Being fully motivated all the time is actually not normal; and constantly being on overdrive can be mentally and physically draining, leading to burnout. Motivation naturally ebbs and flows. There will be days when it’s lacking and days when we feel highly energized–unstoppable. So occasionally feeling unmotivated is nothing to…
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“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.”
“Success is what happens after you have survived all of your disappointments.”
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.”
