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Focus: We Must Persist
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Welcome to the Seventh Edition of MotivateUs.com's Newsletter
Dear Friend,
Thank you for all of your emails of support and help. Our global
community continues to grow every day and new members of our
MotivateUs.com family are spreading the word to others like wild fire. I
appreciate you for sharing the goodness we represent collectively and our
belief in the power of the human spirit to face adversities and rise and
thrive.
Something To Encourage You:
Don't Ever
Don't ever be reluctant
to show your feelings
when you're happy, give in to it...
When you're not, live with it.
Don't ever be afraid to try to
make things better
you might be surprised at the results.
Don't ever take the weight of the world
on your shoulders.
Don't ever feel threatened by the future
take life one day at a time.
Don't ever feel guilty about the past
what's done is done.
Learn from any mistakes you might have made.
Don't ever feel that you are alone
there is always somebody there
for you to reach out to.
Don't ever forget that you can achieve
so many of the things you can imagine.
It's not as hard as it seems.
Don't ever stop loving
Don't ever stop believing,
Don't ever stop Dreaming your Dreams.
--- Author Unknown
--- Sent in by Andrew Ho --- Malaysia
Something I Was Feeling and Thinking:
Each time I prepare a
newsletter, I ask myself, what would be of value to you? What can I do to
help inspire you to want and create the most positive life possible for
yourself?
What can I share with you from my experience and the experience of others that will have
an impact on how you think about yourself and others?
If you remember in the last newsletter I spoke about expecting something
wonderful to happen to me each day and it does. Why? It's my mindset.
After years of training my brain to see the possibilities, to entertain
positive thoughts and to focus on what I want, it becomes easier to
expect the good things to happen, to see the best in yourself and others.
It becomes easier to adapt to change and I find myself calmer than I have
ever been in my life.
And each day I still train.
How did I do this?
By taking 10 minutes every day and reading different pages within
Motivateus.com
No kidding! It's such a simple thing to do, it's fun and you can train
your brain too.
Here's the Process:
Each morning, go to our web site - MotivateUs.com
Monday, go to the Motivational Quotes Page
Slowly read the page. Something will jump out at you that speaks to you,
has meaning for you in your life. Reflect on it, internalize it. Memorize
it or write it down. Take the thought and the feeling with you for the
next 24 hours.
Tuesday, go to the Inspirational Quotes Page
Do the same thing
Wednesday, Personal
Growth Quotes Page
Do the same thing
Thursday, Leaders
and Teachers Quotes Page
Do the same thing
Friday, Thoughts of the Day
Page
Do the same thing
Saturday/Sunday or any day, go to the Sitemap for Stories,
Articles, Poems and more
There are over 1500 offerings in this section alone.
Use MotivateUs as food for your mind to help you learn to think,
consistently, in a positive, optimistic way. Believe me, it matters! Once
you learn how to feed your mind with the right thoughts, you're not going
to be satisfied with negative ones.
By spending just 10 minutes every day, reading these words of
wisdom, I believe you will start to notice a change in yourself. I
believe you will start to feel better about yourself and your ability to
handle any situation that comes your way.
I believe you will start to feel more empowered, hopeful, positive and
optimistic. I believe you will learn how to encourage yourself and as a
result you will be able to help encourage others. I believe you will
start to have a deeper belief in YOU.
So don't delay. Start right away.
Remember, I want to help you become more of who you want to be and I
know this process helps me. I believe it'll help you too.
Here's to your success! I know you can do this!
Sending you love from my heart to your heart,
Marlene
P.S. After 30 days, will you to send me a note about your progress and
briefly tell me what's happening? Are you noticing anything
different?
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A Story To Ponder:
The RoosterWhen I was just a very young lad, it was my
responsibility to milk several cows each morning and evening. My father
worked away during the week making it absolutely necessary for me to
accomplish this task with little outside help except from my mother in
the mornings. I alone had to do the evening milkings.
To get to the barn in the evening, I had to pass through the area in
which the chickens were located. There was a rooster who loved to
establish its self-esteem by flogging me as I walked through its
territory.
Having a rooster flogging would be a horrifying experience even for an
adult. But words cannot describe the impact it would have on a child. The
rooster would not flog me except when I was carrying buckets filled with
milk.
With empty buckets, it seemed to sense that I could get away from it. But
with the full buckets, I was at its mercy since I could not afford to
spill the milk.
The situation became so frightening that I would even go the long way
around in order to avoid the rooster. It caused me much concern and even
completely occupied my mind just before going to the barn each day.
The job of milking gives no days off. There had to be some solution to
this situation; but I was not about to let my father know that I was so
afraid of that rooster. He would have never understood that.
On one occasion, I was presented with some time alone with my uncle
Harrison. He was a wise man just a little older than my father. And he
never seemed to be afraid of anything. I decided to seek his wise counsel
on the matter. He seemed to enjoy talking with me about the rooster and
trying to help me solve my terrible problem.
Uncle Harrison suggested that I carry an extra pair of buckets with me to
the barn. When I was to start back to the house, I should carry the pair
of empty buckets, one in each hand. As the rooster came near, I was to be
very calm and let it start flogging me. Uncle Harrison assured me that I
should let the rooster think that it was going to frighten me as it so
many times had done.
It was then that I should strike the rooster with the empty buckets. He
assured me that I would not harm the rooster, but the sound of the
buckets would make my point. I certainly could not hurt my father's
rooster.
He cautioned me that I should keeping striking the rooster until it threw
up its wings to cover its head. It was only then that I would have won
the battle with the rooster. If I ever retreated, the rooster would know
that I was still afraid, and I would be destined to repeat each day that
awful experience.
I did not have any other choice than to try Uncle Harrison's solution. He
seemed to have so much faith in me. And telling my father that I was
afraid of the rooster would have been a source of great
embarrassment.
I carried the extra buckets as I went to the barn on that fateful day. As
I milked the cows, my hands were shaking not being able to forget about
what I had to do. Out of the barn I came uttering numerous prayers for my
success.
The rooster approached as usual when it realized I had two milk buckets
in hand not realizing that both were empty. I continued to utter my pleas
for divine intervention. A crossroads in my life was quickly approaching.
A line was now being drawn in the sand, and I was doing the drawing.
Could I really stand there and let the rooster attack me?
The rooster flogged with such ferocity as if it seemed to sense the
importance of this encounter. I bit my lip hard as fear forced the tears
down my cheeks. I quickly reviewed the instructions from Uncle Harrison
as I hit the rooster with one bucket and then with the other bucket. The
rooster fell backwards as if it was having difficulty understanding the
turn of events.
For a brief moment, the rooster retreated as if to test my conviction in
the matter. But again, it charged toward me. I had had just enough
success that the next attack would be easier to repel. My courage was
growing.
Again and again I struck it. In the heat of the moment, the handle to one
the buckets came loose sending the bucket flying into the air. But that
did not seem to matter as I continued with the remaining one.
The rooster retreated toward the hen house with me in swift pursuit.
Under the hen house it went to the smallest corner trying to avoid my
strikes. Cornered and defeated, the rooster finally threw up its wings to
cover its head.
I had defeated the rooster. And this or any other rooster was never again
to cause me any concern.
In life, we must face the rooster.
Life is filled with many fearful circumstances. We must make difficult
decisions. We must stand up and face difficult situations. We will need
help and advice from others along the way. But we must
persist.
Little did I know as a young lad what a profound effect that event would
have upon my life. That one event gave me the courage to fight other more
important battles in life.
--- Everett B. Padgett, Jr., --- North Carolina
Copyright © June, 1994 (Revised 1996)
Something I'd Like To Share:
9 Ways To Motivate Yourself
When You Just Don't Feel Like It
Achieving the really big goals and
dreams always involves breaking it down into do-able little steps.
Assuming that you've picked a goal or dream that you really love working
at, then most of the steps are a delight to take.
No matter how much you love your dream and no matter how much you love
your work, there are going to be tasks along the way that you really
don't want to do. Those pieces of work that we hate doing can be the very
ones that sabotage our success.
How do you stay motivated during those parts of the journey?
- Reward yourself.
Let's say that I want to lose twenty pounds. That's not too much, but
it's still going to involve more days of self discipline that I feel
like doing. So, I reward myself with a little treat every time I drop
five pounds. I get to have one of my favorite fattening meals at the
end of each five pound loss. Then I go back to my diet. At the end, I
get to go on a shopping spree to buy new clothes. Come up with a reward
that you can use to motivate yourself.
- Do it for love of someone else.
My teenage son proposed a deal that works for both of us. I don't smoke
cigarettes and he doesn't experiment with drugs. Every time one of us
is about to give in to temptation, our love for each other stops us. I
can't light up knowing that he might start doing drugs because I broke
our deal. He hates the idea of me dying of cancer, so he never touches
any kinds of drugs offered to him by his peers. The love of someone
else can motivate you to do what you otherwise might not be able to do
for yourself.
- Trade work with someone else.
I've watched my kids perfect this style of motivation. My son will
offer to scrub out the showers if my daughter will do the dishes for
him. Hiring someone to do the work you don't want to do is actually a
form of trade. Barter or pay someone else to do it for you, so that you
can continue moving forward with your dreams.
- Truly consider quitting.
I'm not telling you to quit, but to really think about it. If you've
got a goal or dream that means a lot to you and you've already invested
a large part of yourself into making it happen, then what would
quitting feel like? Is avoiding the difficult or distasteful task worth
giving up on your goals and dreams? The love of your long-term goal can
motivate you not to quit.
- Share the misery.
This reminds me of friends in college getting together to study for an
upcoming test. Having friends along can make the experience more
festive then it would have been if you were doing it alone. Is there a
way to team up with a friend so that the work is easier or at least
more enjoyable?
- Just get it over with.
One of my all time favorite quotes about getting past your inner blocks
was written by Stuart Wilde in his book The Quickening, "Cut the shit
and do the thing." Yeah it's a bit rough, but we all know those stoic
tough people who simply roll up their sleeves and dive in know matter
how much they may hate the task before them. Take on a soldier's
mindset and just get to work doing the ugly parts so you can move on to
the more rewarding parts of making your dreams a reality.
- Get training or education.
Quite often, we don't like doing something because deep down we don't
think we know how or that we are talented enough. So, get the
education, do the research, learn the necessary skills, or whatever
else it is that you need to do to get ready for taking that next step.
Once you've properly trained yourself, then you might even be
enthusiastic about taking that next step.
- Take a running start at it.
Think of riding your bike uphill. It doesn't take kids very long to
figure out that the best way to get that bicycle to the top of the
steep hill is to build up a lot of speed before you even get to the
base of the hill. You then let that momentum help to propel you most of
the way up. Heck, with enough of a running start you can sometimes make
it all the way up without any major struggles. If there is a way to
pace yourself and reschedule the not so fun parts of accomplishing your
goals until after you've completed a bunch of the cool parts, then do
so. The highs of your mini successes will help inspire you to push past
the parts that you are avoiding.
- Figure out a different way to do it.
This is the supreme way to avoid doing the task all together. Be
creative, be smart, think outside the box. Is there any way to make
your dream come true without having to actually do the specific duty
that you're wanting to avoid? Sometimes you can find another way. Other
times, just knowing that there is definitely no other path to your
dreams other than the one before you is enough to motivate you to just
buck up and get through it.
What's most important is not how you keep yourself motivated but
that you keep the long-term benefits of your goals in mind. If you focus
too much on avoiding the uncomfortable parts of accomplishing your goals,
then you won't accomplish much.
Find a way to keep going and remember that all things come with a price.
Pay the price so you can get on with enjoying the dream.
Copyright © 2006 Skye Thomas - Tomorrow's Edge
Submitted by Lauren C. --- New Jersey
Three Quotes To Motivate You:
"You never know when someone
will catch a dream from you. You never know when that little word or
something you do opens the windows of the mind that seeks the light. The
way you live doesn't matter at all...but it might. So just in case, it
could be that another's life through you might possibly change for the
better, with a broader and brighter view, it seems it might be worth a
try at pointing the way to the right...of course it may not matter at
all...but you never know it might."
--- Author Unknown
--- Submitted by Monica Andrew --- Minnesota
"Do not throw cold water
On other peoples schemes
Throw instead a lifeline
To help them with their dreams "
--- Author Unknown
--- Submitted by R.G. --- Merthyr Tydfil, U.K.
"The path to a dream is paved with sacrifices and lined with
determination. And although it has many stumbling blocks along the way
and may go in more than one direction, it is marked with faith.
It is traveled by belief in you and others but requires courage,
persistence and hard work. It is conquered with a willingness to face
challenges and take chances, to fail and try again and again.
Along the way, you may have to confront doubts, setbacks, and unfairness.
But when the path comes to an end, you will find that there is no greater
joy than making your dream come true."
--- Author Unknown
--- Sent in by Lisa Giglio --- Illinois
Until Next Time, Remember:
Always Have A Dream
Forget about the days
when it's been cloudy,
but don't forget your hours in the sun.
Forget about the times
you've been defeated,
but don't forget the victories you've won.
Forget about the mistakes
that you can't change now,
but don't forget the lessons.
Forget about the misfortunes
you've encountered,
but don't forget the times your luck has turned.
Forget about the days
when you've been lonely,
but don't forget the friendly
smiles you've seen......
Forget about the plans
that didn't seem to work out right,
but don't forget to always have a dream.
--- Author Unknown
--- Sent in by Vicki Hoyle
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