9-19-05

"Great is the road I climb, but the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering." --Sextus Propertius (50BC-16AD) Roman Poet

Motivate: When was the last time anxiety knocked at your front door? Have you ever met stress walking down the street? When did you ever answer the telephone and discover anger on the other end of the line? Things such as stress, anxiety and anger do not exist in real, tangible form. They exist only in you and only with your cooperation. They are not grown in a field or manufactured in a factory. They are created in your head. And as such, there is no need for you to "deal" with them or "resolve" them. You have it in your power to simply annihilate them or, better yet, to avoid giving birth to them in the first place. Do not let your anxieties control you. Do not let them do anything. Do not let them be. Just throw them away. What good are they? Why allow them to clutter and complicate your life? It takes a lot of energy to create and to maintain stress, anxiety and fear. Redirect that energy toward something positive and creative. It's your energy. It's your life. Use it to be joyful.

9-16-05

The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.
--Felix Adler

Motivate: When you treat people as if they're no good, they'll prove you right almost every time. Expectations make a significant difference in performance and results. What do you expect of yourself? What do you expect of others? Expectations are often a self-fulfilling prophecy. So it makes sense to expect the very best. Is that reasonable when past experience proves otherwise? Yes, because people can change. You can change. And the beginning of that change is often a change in expectations. The way to get the best out of yourself and others is to expect the best. No matter how disappointed you've been in the past, with yourself or with someone else, the way to start getting positive results is with positive expectations. Expect the best. Proceed under the assumption that you'll get the best, from yourself and others, and you're well on your way to getting it.

9-12-05

The world is good-natured to people who are good natured.
--William Makepeace Thackeray

Motivator: If u lack confidence, then do something about it. No matter how little confidence u may have, still there is something u can bring urself 2 do, some action u can take. Go ahead & do it. Take that 1st step. Keep doing it until u develop the confidence 2 take the next step. Confidence is something u build with ur actions. No 1 can give it 2 u or sell it 2 u. Ur confidence must cum from u. What can u do right now 2 begin building the confidence u need? What small action r u confident enough 2 take, that will put u on the road 2 even more confidence? Start where u r. There is something u can do. Make the effort. Build ur confidence, & it will serve YOU well. Marco

9-7-05

Persistence will win over just about any advantage. The longer you persist, the closer you are to winning. Even when you are constantly beaten back, even when the road is steep and strewn with giant boulders, keep going. The value of your accomplishment increases with every difficulty you encounter on the way to it. And you must persist in order to realize that value. Whatever it takes, keep going. Every moment you persist builds equity in your dream. The glory, the joy, the fulfillment of life come from persistence through the troubles, the frustrations and the obstacles. You already know that. You've experienced it before. And now, today, is yet another opportunity to keep going, to persist through whatever may come. It's the best opportunity you could possibly imagine. So make the most of it. Keep going. Persist in your efforts. And fulfill your own incredible possibilities.

9-6-05

"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another." -- Helen Keller

Motivator: Winning athletes practice day after day, month after month, 2 sharpen their skills. So do the best musicians, actors, salespeople, airline pilots, preachers, photographers, designers -the list goes on & on. What do u practice every day? Do u practice positive, success-oriented skills & actions? Or do u practice such skills as making excuses, getting angry, complaining, assigning blame, & procrastinating. Remember, the more u practice, the more skilled u becum. Every moment, u increase ur experience in some area. The more u practice anything, the more it becums a part of u. So b aware of what u practice each day, each moment. Make sure that what u practice, is what YOU want 2 becum.

9-5-05

"Para descubrir nuevas tierras, uno debe de tratar de perder vista a la orilla del mar por mucho tiempo. " --Andre Gide (1869–1951) Escritor Frances

Motivate: Tu ya tienes lo que se toma para ser lo que tu quieras ser, para tener lo que sea que quieras tener, de vivir en la forma que tu quieras vivir. La habilidad de crear la vida que tu anhelas, ya es tuya. Tu trabajo es encontrar esa habilidad, hacer uso de tu pontencial, y tomar las acciones necesarias que te lleven a tus metas. Es en vano desear recibir algo por nada. Tu no recibiras algo por nada, y tu no lo necesitas de todos modos. Fijate dentro de ti. Encuentra el valor que ya hay ahi, y has lo mejor con el. Lo que en realidad tu aneles, tu ya tienes la habilidad de adquirlo. Solo depende de ti que lo hagas un hecho.

(Editado por JuanPi)

9-2-05

"La naturaleza no te da virtud; ser bueno es un arte." --Seneca

Motivate: Recuerda mientras vives el dia, que eres mas que un numero en alguna computadora. Tu eres un ser viviente completamente unico en toda la historia. Tu puedes pensar y rasonar. Tu eres capaz de hacer decisiones inteligentes. Tu puedes crear. Tu puedes explorar. Tu puedes buscar la verdad y encontrar gozo en la belleza a tu alrededor. Tu puedes dar tu amor y compasion a otros. Tu puedes cambiar las cosas que te enojan o que te frustran. Tu puedes hacer una gran diferencia en tu vida y en la de los demas. Tu estas vivo y lleno de posibilidades, no importa que aya sucedido en tu pasado, no importa lo que otra gente piense o diga de ti, no importa la situacion. Hay algo que puedes hacer hoy que continuara a llenar ese bonche de posibilidades especiales que eres tu. Haz todo lo posible para que lo hagas relucir.