Once you get over your self-inflicted self-doubt and allow your eyes to open to certain shining facts about how your passions do contain oodles value and how your interests are interests of others as well, you will be capable of empowering your motivation to accomplish most or all of the crazy dreams you dream.  And when You finally decide to take action and prove to yourself (and the rest of the world) that you can do it ‘like a rock star’ you will finally get it.

You get that you are worth your dreams.
You get that you are good enough.
You get that the only real limitations are your own thoughts and the process you use them.
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While many people have many different views on religion, in general they are all just trying to help everybody enjoy life together. Below is a great story.. if you don’t like the term God, you can replace it with friend, or Buddha, or anyone you respect…

A holy man was having a conversation with God one day and said,
‘God , I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like.’

God led the holy man to two doors.
He opened one of the doors and the holy man looked in.
In the middle of the room was a large round table.

In the middle of the table was a large pot of stew,
which smelled delicious and made the holy man’s mouth water.
The people sitting around the table were thin and sickly.
They appeared to be famished.

They were holding spoons with very long handles,
that were strapped to their arms and each found it possible
to reach into the pot of stew and take a spoonful..
But because the handle was longer than their arms,
they could not get the spoons back into their mouths.

The holy man shuddered at the sight of their misery and suffering.
God said, ‘You have seen Hell.’

They went to the next room and opened the door.
It was exactly the same as the first one.

The holy man said, ‘I don’t understand ..’ It is simple,’ said God .
‘It requires but one skill.
You see they have learned to feed each other, while the greedy think only of themselves.’

If you want to achieve any sort of meaningful success in your life, you have no choice but to take ownership of everything your life contains.

If you don’t accept responsibility for every action, emotion, thought, and belief in your life, you will be susceptible to exactly the sort of change you are seeing right now – random events. There are excuses preventing you right now from being the best you, you can be.

Your thoughts need to be constructive, not destructive.

You are where you are in life because of the decisions your made in your life. Period.
Nobody has it easy.

Because when you take complete ownership of your past, you finally get to take ownership for your future.

We all want to control our own destiny, but so many of us believe fate has more control then we do. That’s just a lie… it’s the excuse we use to avoid the pains of personal responsibility for our current place in life.
It’s easier to feel better about yourself on a superficial level when we deny the realities of our own in-action or laziness. Do you feel good about intending to do something one day? How do you feel after you complete a meaningful task?

4 are birds on a sand bar in the ocean, 1 decides to fly away – how many remain?
Four. The bird only thought about flying. My question is this: What happened next? Was there a better way?

Every moment of every day, with every thought guiding each and every action, we’re slowly shuffling our future choices into bits of immutable history. The difference between drowning on a sinking raft and being waited-on in the perfect place just how you like, is simply a matter of choice – and the personal responsibility to take action on the choice.

The Past is the past, remember the lessons learned from it, but don’t let it drag down your future. Use it – Raise high by providing strength through knowledge and experience. Let The past go. While it may take time to see the effects, Change happens in a moment. Make that change now to choose a better future. Make now better.

Choose.

Even if you have seen this before, I recommend reading it again every few weeks or months. We all have a tendency to get caught up in busy times and sometimes forget what we are really trying to accomplish. This may help reset your perspective.

While the following are not my words, their meaning resonates well with my intended purpose here. If you want to become a better person, run a better business, or have stronger relationships, these words will provide food for thought.

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways , but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

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, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our 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. We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We’ve done larger things, but not better things.

We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We’ve conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete…

Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn’t cost a cent.

Remember, to say, “I love you” to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

George Carlin

When you have no goals or aspirations it’s hard to make anything of legacy from your life.
With the world moving at such a quick pace, thinking outside the box can seem a bit overwhelming.

So much uncertainty in your personal life with your family and friends allows you to believe you will have time to pursue, or yet consider, what your life dream and goal is – later.

When but you consider when will you have time? Think about the direction of your life and where you will be in 6 months in the future… if you don’t know then lets assume in the same place maybe? What about in 6 years? 30? Is your path ever going to have the time and demand you make it a good time?

Coming out of your box can be tough. Breaking old habits, addictions, and perceived truths appear impossible on occasion. We all have it tough, and someone has it better, someone has it worse.
Believing your interests are valuable interests to others is one of the first hurdles to get past.
This gets a lot easier when you have a place that feels like a home where you can relax – away from the walls that protect and encase you. A place to dream your dreams, and a state of mind where you believe you are worth achieving your dreamy success.

Is it silly to think you can make money doing things you feel are fun and exciting? …pushing your limits in almost comfortable, but really exciting ways?

(Where there is a will there’s a way)

When you believe your interests are worth pursuing because they are valuable just the way they are, and you remember a month ago in the future that last month, the month you’re about to live, is so much better then what last month was. And you take action more then before, because you now know better – that your interests – are more valuable to enough people to provide you the means, to make your real interests, your way of making your life as successful as those dreams you have when life is perfect. With more abundance then you need, but that’s just what you’re worth. Design your life when you’re day dreaming. When your back in the real world, take your design of a dream life and execute it with the passion your life is worth. When juice is the worth the squeeze the rewards for hard work can provide a life full of riches.

Take that extra money and buy a homeless person a house if it makes you feel better… hey, maybe I should do that too….