You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar
Well this one does not need much explanation. Daydreaming and procrastination are your enemies when facing challenges in life. Get off your lazy ass and start working towards your goals, nothing has ever been achieved without a start, no matter how bad it had looked in the beginning.
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Listen to Arnold:
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The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Linus Pauling
While observing successful people, you will notice soon enough that they have some things in common. One of those things is that they all have a lot of projects going on. Their minds are infinite pools of ideas and they have the courage (and the means) to try their ideas out.
No matter what you want to achieve, having a lot of ideas in your brain is an awesome way to start! Yes, there may be some stupid ones that you will rule out, but if there is one good idea in a hundred attempts, then you better start dreaming and opening your mind towards new concepts and inventions.
Allow yourself to be creative and to dream, soon enough you will be rewarded!
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Good with excuses? Well of course you are.
We all are.
But in fact, excuses don’t work, while working around problems and finding solutions does. This video is oddly motivating, seeing that he just does not care about being disabled. He rocks it and looks extremely happy doing it.
That’s what mindset and attitude is all about! Taking what life gifes you and enjoying it!
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Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
George Carlin
What do you get out of your job and what does your boss (if there is one) get out of you? Do you benefit from your job in more ways than just earning money?
If you don’t, you should reevaluate your current priorities and change something!
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The world is a fucking mess. It is full of dragons and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be, and that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawhl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up!
Patrick Rothfuss
Think of those dragons as challenges. Daily challenges like getting up early or being disciplined or long-term challenges like being happy in a personal way or successful in any way. You have to fight those dragons and train yourself in battle!
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This sports motivation video contains great advice for anybody and speaks directly out of my soul. There are burning reasons within everyone to get up early, to train hard, work hard, do whatever one loves. You just have to find them and trust your gut.
Even more important is to mute your inner voice of automated excuses. Yes, your brain will find excuses for everything, always. Yes, they seem plausible on the first glance. No, they are not. They are distractions, obstacles that you have to overcome in order to get where you want to go!
The choice between the comfortable and the right thing to do is not always easy, but it gets easier with time. You can train discipline. No more excuses, start your training today!
You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be. And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid…. You refuse to do it because you want to live longer…. You’re afraid that you will lose your job, or you are afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity, or you’re afraid that somebody will stab you, or shoot at you or bomb your house; so you refuse to take the stand.
Well, you may go on and live until you are 90, but you’re just as dead at 38 as you would be at 90. And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Take chances, do what’s fun!
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You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
Abraham Lincoln
Also: What makes other people angry?
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