Failure is inevitable.
In life, you will fail.
There will come a time when you attempt to do something, be it big or small, and you will not succeed on your first, second, or thousandth try. At some point, you will have to decide that enough is enough, and it’s just not going to happen.
You didn't give up. You failed.
Now what?
Read More"You don't set out to build a wall. You don't say 'I'm going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that's ever been built.' You don't start there. You say, 'I'm going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.' You do that every single day. And soon you have a wall."
-- Will Smith
This is one of the quotes I live by, and I've thought about it almost every day since I heard it.
Read MoreWhat do you think about in the shower?
What comes to mind when you are relaxed?
When you are not rushing about, doing five things at once, or balancing life's priorities, what do you think about? Do you day dream about the future? Relive the past? Maybe you just focus on getting clean.
For me the shower is the source of a crazy amount of ideas and solutions to problems I don't always realize I have. It give me a chance to let my mind wander and attack what's going on in my life that doesn't have to do with the daily grind.
Read MoreMotivational speaker Jim Rohn has been quoted as saying that we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with. While I'm not quite sure what an "average of a person" is, I get that he is referring to the general habits and behaviors that we exhibit.
If you've ever seen someone spend time with an old friend and begin to act similar to them, you've see the influence we can have on each other.
While this can be easily seen as a downside (teenagers and their ill-behaved friends are a classic example), it can also be used for positive actions.
Read MoreEven if you have a passion figured out, you may need a little push towards success. Sometimes you need willpower. Sometimes you need inspiration. Sometimes you need good old fashioned motivation.
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