Motivation

Failure

Published February 18, 2017 · All posts on Feb 18

I can accept failure, but I cannot accept not trying.

~ unknown

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Do not be fooled

Published December 20, 2016 · All posts on Dec 20

Do not be fooled: Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

~ unknown

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Take big swings

Published November 20, 2016 · All posts on Nov 20

The great thing about taking chances when you’re younger is you have less to lose, and you don’t know as much. So you take big swings.

~ Amy Poehler

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Life’s challenge

Published October 21, 2016 · All posts on Oct 21

Men and women may in the end be forced to admit: “I made a fool of myself,” and still be fairly happy. But no one can possibly be satisfied, and therefore no one can in my sense be happy, who feels that in some paramount affair he has failed to take up the challenge of life. For a voice within him, which none else can hear, but which he cannot choke, will constantly be murmuring:
“You lacked courage. You hadn’t the pluck. You ran away.”

And it is happier to be unhappy in the ordinary sense all one’s life than to have to listen at the end to that dreadful interior verdict.

~ Brett McKay from, “Running Away From Life” Essay by Arnold Bennett | The Art of Manliness

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Do Something Fun

Published October 15, 2016 · All posts on Oct 15

Every morning when I wake up I say, I’ll never be as young as I am today. Today is the youngest day of the rest of my life. Get up and do something fun.

~ Rochelle Ford

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Do Not Trade

Published October 3, 2016 · All posts on Oct 3

Don’t trade away your happiness now to earn money in hopes that if you make enough you’ll be able to buy it back later.

You can’t.

~ Unknown

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Every single day

Published September 21, 2016 · All posts on Sep 21

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 stone as perfectly as a stone can be laid.” You do that every single day. And soon you will have a wall.

~ Will Smith

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Meditate upon death to motivate yourself

Published September 20, 2016 · All posts on Sep 20

This blind spot in our perception is why we confidently tell ourselves that we’ll start that business, lose the weight, repair our relationship, get organized…in a few weeks or a few months, because then we’ll have more time. It’s an illusion. It’s a self-deception that allows us to soothe the pangs of our unfulfilled desires with the panacea that now is not the right time. The mirage of the time-filled future can string a man along until he’s 80, has one foot in the grave, and realizes that the expanse of time he imagined would open never appeared.

~ Brett McKay from, Meditate Upon Death to Motivate Yourself | The Art of Manliness

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Struggle

Published September 9, 2016 · All posts on Sep 9

Strength doesn’t come from winning, strength comes from struggling.

~ unknown

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