Tag Archives: Inspiration

You decide who you are

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This is a big one. In today’s article I want to talk about how to stay focused on goals and how to efficiently make use of your mind. Let’s start with a story.

When I was taking classes for my driver’s license, our instructor told us about the following situation: You drive on a long highway-like alley through the night, everything is dark and there is nothing besides your car, the road and trees beside it every now and then.

Suddenly the road makes a sharp turn and your car starts spinning. Following the glow of your front lights you search for something to hold on, for something to focus on and certainly you will find a positive lock-on on a beautiful tree. What happens then? Right, you will go right-on into the tree, although you wanted to go back on the road.

We have to ask ourselves: Why does our brain work like that? In this case we should have looked on the empty street or even in the vast nothingness in order to prevent a crash so how does this relate to our everyday life? It is simple: Your mind is extremely powerful and controls a lot of what you do. Therefore you have to understand how it works.
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A thought about society

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We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced or values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We’ve learned how to make a living but not a life. We’ve added years to life, not life to years.

George Carlin

/phil

I want to be happy

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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment. I told them they didn’t understand life.

John Lennon

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Be satisfied. Now.

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He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Socrates

Being satisfied and happy can not be achieved by constantly buying new stuff.

As long as you are not satisfied with what you have right now, as long as you do not appreciate your belongings you won’t find satisfaction by looking at outer circumstances. Satisfaction comes from the inside.

You will never find salvation in consumerism.

/phil

Requirements to yourself

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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expect of you.

Henry Ward Beecher

Be the very best you can be!

Do not do it for the sake of impressing others but just for the cause itself.

Be awesome!

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Chose growth!

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Imagine the following situation:

You sit at home in November, it’s warm and cozy. You had planned to go for a run and take a refreshing shower afterwards, but that was hours ago and right now with the weather being all stormy and rainy all you want to do is sit back in your chair and enjoy a hot beverage. Well guess what? You get your ass up right now and go out there!

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

Abraham Harold Maslow

Yesterday you said tommorow and you know I’m right about this! Stop lying to yourself you lazy piece, pick yourself up and throw yourself out there.

I do not care wether it is your sports, a socially akward situation or studying you avoid, you stop that cowardly behaviour right now! Go out there and thank me later!

/phil

Impossible you say?

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At first something seems impossible; then it becomes improbable; but with enough conviction and support it becomes inevitable.
Christopher Reeve

If you want something go for it. Noone can tell you that it is impossible as long as you refuse to believe them.

Keep focused and aim for the stars!

By the way: You may have noticed that today’s post came one hour earlier than normally. This was on purpose and was actually a suggestion by one of my fellow readers Maxi. The reason is simple: Here in Germany the posts were published at 7:30 AM, basically a bit too late for the first morning coffee.

From now on posts will be published one hour sooner, which means 6:30 AM for our German readers 🙂

/phil

Focus on your goals

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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Henry Ford

This is why you have to know your goals well.

Think about them a lot, have a clear picture of them in your mind.

Blurry goals make you easily distracted while clear and strong goals keep you focused and motivated.

/phil

Be prepared

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Something I found in my notebook, must be quite old since I don’t really remember when I wrote it. Well,  here goes nothing:

 

People forget to think in good times. They do not take the time to evaluate, appreciate and enjoy.

When it gets tough and time seems to slow down they do not have a clear mind, they are unprepared.

Use the good times to prepare yourself menatlly for tougher parts of life. Never stop thinking about self-development and general concepts of motivation and inspiration.

Take good care of your thoughts and you can harvest the crops when the drought comes.

 

Prepare yourself.

Meditate, read, think.

Always.

/phil

Check your direction every now and then

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If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Lao Tzu

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