The essence of choice

You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider good or evil, what will give you joy or pain, what you will love or hate, desire or fear, depends on you standard of value. Emotions are inherent in you nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and you values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog you motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine, which you, the driver, have corrupted.

John Galt, in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged

This is a perfect post for today. Why? Because it is an awesome post and it contains a lot of basic and profound ideas that lie behind this blog.

You decide on who you are, what you can achieve, how you are percieved, if you are happy. You decide about your life. Do not seek fault in others, do not look for scapegoats. Instead look for solutions, look for work-arounds, make this world a better place.

Stop complaining, start improving. And better start with yourself, that’s where we all can improve the most!

And today I celebrate. I celebrate the 1000st post on motivatingdaily.com!

Thanks for your support, please feel free to share my work if you enjoy it!

/phil

Find the fun

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and SNAP – the job’s a game!

Julie Andrews

This is true for every imaginable work!

Well, except doing laundry and ironing. That stuff is torture from another world.

/phil

Embrace Chaos and Problems

Storms make oaks take roots.

Only through chaos and conflict you will learn to cope with problematic situations.

Living a live without challenges, without dead-ends, would make you a pretty boring and also pretty weak on your own.

You have to embrace challenges in order to grow with them, in order to become more awesome day by day.

/phil

Courage

People may hate you for being different and not living by society’s standards, but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same.

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Honesty

Being honest may not get you many friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.

John Lennon

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You are not alone

Accept help! Seek advice! Collaborate! Use synergies!

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Woodrow Wilson

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Happiness

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can’t imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn’t they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.

Nancy Mitford

Misery is easy, happiness takes effort, remember this!

/phil

About success

Sure, there are million ways to succeed, but in the end every success is in its nature pure freedom:

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

Succeed in whatever strange way you want to, and you will agree.

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Respect yourself

Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you hbappy.

Robert Tew

It is hard in the first place, but worth the effort and you will enjoy it a lot in the long run.

/phil

Just do it! [picture]

Pin this next to your workplace!

do it/phil