Favorite Inspirational Quotes

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Francois-Marie Arouet aka Voltaire

The longer we dwell on them, our misfortunes, means the longer we are giving them our attention and focus.  Anything given attention tends to grow.  I do NOT want to grow my misfortunes.  I do not want to make them larger or to attract more misfortune into my life.

Therefore I will try all kinds of things to get my mind off them.

One I have been using a lot lately as a result of journaling on this quote is to keep telling myself, “What’s done is done.  You can’t change the past.”

I also admit to myself that I can’t change other people when they aggravate me so there’s no point in dwelling on the aggravation.  What’s done is done.  Let it go and get over it.  I can’t change them.  Neither can I change my present circumstances right now that are a result of actions I took in the past.

Better to decide what I do want, concoct a plan, focus on it, and take action resulting in making the misfortunes and aggravations even more a thing of the past.  Focus and dwell on my vision of what I want, the person I want to be, and my actions I should take to get there is the way to increase the power of that vision.

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I do not have superior intelligence or faultless looks.  I do not captivate a room or run a mile under six minutes.  I only succeeded because I was still working after everyone else went to sleep.

Greg Evans

Maybe that’s where I’m failing.  I sleep too much.  I go to bed usually when my husband does as my office is in the bedroom.  Since he gets up pretty early for a workout and then an hourly commute to work, that’s pretty early.  Bummer.

I, too, don’t have any of the things listed in this quote:  superior intelligence, faultless looks, charisma, or extraordinary athletic ability.  I guess that means the thing that is open to me is to work hard, work long, focus and persevere.

I think that is what he really means by “…still working after everyone else went to sleep.”  He found the time he could work to achieve his goal and that was created by giving up sleep in his case.

Most times to achieve what we want we have to be willing to give up something else.  It may be watching TV in the evenings.  It may be going out to eat.  It could be a full 8 hours of sleep a night.  It just depends upon what our goal is and what we can give up to achieve it.

Are we willing to go the extra mile and do what is needed to reach our goals?  Am I?  That is a question I have to ask over and over again to daily reinforce my commitment to my goals.

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Big ideas or small ideas are created with the same energy.  Turn your annual income into a monthly income for 2010.

Bob Proctor

To bring anything into fruition requires energy.  That energy must be spent visualizing the idea as being real, planning and preparing to bring the idea into the world, taking action on the steps of the plan, and maintaining focus on the idea as well as persevering to its completion.

All that has to be done whether the idea is big or small.

I think that a big idea may require more planning and preparation.  It may require more steps and time.  That time may mean you have to focus and persevere longer.  All that does require more energy.

But the energy is the same.  All the basic steps are the same.  That’s what I think Proctor means with this inspirational quote.

His second sentence is the big idea.  So how do I turn my annual income into a monthly income?

Well, first I have to believe and accept that it is a possibility and can become real.  I have to plan for how to do it and then start taking action.  Heck!  There are even some actions I can take without much planning.  So there’s my start.

What a big idea!

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