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The road to success is always under construction; share your equations for success — and learn some new ones.
When Until Arrives
You decide to plant a bamboo tree. Every day you water and fertilize this tree. After a few days pass by, you see nothing. You continue to water it for weeks and see nothing. Weeks turn to months, and still you see nothing. You continue to water it for a year and you see nothing. Three years go by and yet you see nothing. Finally, after five long years, the bamboo tree shoots up to over eighty feet tall in a matter of six weeks. The question is of course is: Did it take six weeks, or five years?
By The Breatharian Blogger7 years ago in Motivation
The Story of Big Jim
The power went out. Again! I looked out my second story office window and knew exactly why. I could hear the sounds throughout the morning. There was a crew of four men and three bucket trucks stringing power lines along the new poles they had been planting in the front and back yards of my neighborhood the past few weeks.
By Rick Beneteau7 years ago in Motivation
Faith
I think most people when they think about faith, they think of it being a religious thing and often use the word as a noun, as in “My faith is such and such church.” But faith is so much more. You need not even be part of a certain religion to have faith. Faith is certainly spoken of and defined in various ways among these religions, and most consider it integral and vital to their belief system.
By Benjamin Raven7 years ago in Motivation
Failure Is an Experiment
There is no failure. There are only results. I got this concept from Dr. Wayne Dyer and I have used it in my life. As you read this, you will find ways that you can use it in yours. Can you think of a situation in which you thought that you failed? Did you grow up thinking of yourself as a failure? You might have had friends or family members who criticized you for failing? What if your idea of failing changed entirely? Imagine a life where failing is a good thing.
By The Breatharian Blogger7 years ago in Motivation
How to Breathe for Success
I read a study that said the average person at rest takes about 16 breaths per minute. That same person would be taking around 960 breaths per hour. Following this trend, that's about 23,000 breaths per day, and +8,500,000 breaths per year. Assuming they exercise, this would come out to around 672,000,000 breaths in a lifetime if they lived to age 80.
By The Breatharian Blogger7 years ago in Motivation
The Missing Cornerstone of Success
A Hero is someone who, the moment prior to becoming one, was a reckless, irresponsible dreamer. Risk None, Gain Nothing. I wrote the above while in deep reflection, mulling over whether I was truly prepared to take on the mammoth job of successfully launching an Internet marketing company. Having survived several start-ups of this magnitude, albeit not in the cyber-world, I knew this undertaking would be one that involved much more than just plain positive thinking.
By Rick Beneteau7 years ago in Motivation
Harnessing Disappointment
It didn't work out the way I wanted it to, in fact it went horribly wrong. Couldn't have gone worse! Today as I sat in front of my laptop anxiously waiting for my first webinar to begin, I thought I had done everything right. I promoted it plenty on social media and within my network, got the message out there for everyone to see. I made videos even, something I'm not fully comfortable with, to promote it and posted them on both LinkedIn and Facebook. Eventbrite told me there would be eight wonderful women showing up to talk about immunity to change, when humans resist change because of deeper underlying fears or assumptions they make about what will happen if they change, if their world changes. I was so excited. I have been practicing for days just to make sure the webinar went flawlessly. With 30 minutes to go, I met with my fellow co-leads to finalise logistics and to put us in the best headspace for what we were getting ready to do. We were so excited. With ten minutes to go, we put our intentions out into the world both for ourselves and our participants. Then with three minutes to go, we settled in for an amazing webinar and the beginning of our journey together as founders of a program dedicated to the professional and personal development of women working in STEM careers. This was our starting block. We were just waiting for the gun to go off.
By Jessica Circe7 years ago in Motivation
The Myth of the Overnight Success Story
If you’re anything like me, you’ve been working on your novel (or a series of novels, or several stand-alone novels) for many, many years. And you probably have friends that know this. Or maybe they’re just coworkers; and if they’re not the type of people who sit down and read or write, then they’re not going to understand what takes you so long. The problem is that they are fooled by the myth of the overnight success story.
By S. Eliza Gregory7 years ago in Motivation
My Soldier
Have you ever been afraid, truly afraid of something? I don’t mean the jump up, adrenaline-pumping fear you get from a roller coaster or a scary movie. No, my fear is a true, bone-deep, tear gathering, loss of muscle control fear. It’s so pervasive, so much a phobia, that facing it can literally leave me in hysterical tears unable to move a single muscle. And yet, I have faced it; several times. I have faced it, and in facing it I have learned about trust and what I’m willing to do to get the perfect picture.
By Lovey McDonald7 years ago in Motivation
The Road to Galway
I was up late writing some music in October when I got a text from my friend Emily asking if I was free for a call. Not unusual, except that this friend was currently traveling in Ireland shooting a short film. She had called me earlier in the week for a BFF pep talk session—her trip in Scotland wasn’t going well and she had been asked if she wanted to be cast in a short film in Ireland. I told her she’d be an absolute idiot to stay miserable and not take the chance.
By Monte Mader7 years ago in Motivation
