Tag: Life’s Journey

Choose Your Crowd

“Distance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come into your life. Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.”

― Roy Bennett

         You are a reflection of the crowd you choose to surround yourself with. So, be selective of the people you include in your life. Choose people who share similar values and who inspire you to dream big. Choose those who uplift you and motivate you to be your best self each and every day.

Moving Forward

“Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.”

― Suzy Kassem

         You must learn to accept what has come before in order to move forward in life. And often the process of healing is borne from our past hurts and mistakes. So, use the regrets and pitfalls of yesterday as stepping stones toward a better tomorrow. Because to truly know what it means to be high, you must have experienced what it means to be low.

Stop Overthinking It

“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. In other words, a wish is a good place to start but then you have to get off your butt and make it happen. You have to pick up a quill and write your own damn story.”

― Suzanne Selfors

         It’s so easy to get lost in our heads and in our own self doubts. We so often set ourselves up for defeat and failure before we even start. So, if you have a dream, then get up, start making it a reality, and stop overthinking it.

Optimism

“Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible”

― William Arthur Ward

           Life is all about the lens you choose to view it from. And at the end of the day, the quality of your life and your happiness stems from your perspective. You ALWAYS have the choice to see the positive in whatever life throws your way. Just like you can choose to only see the negative of every situation. So, each morning make a promise to greet the new day with a smile and optimistic attitude that you can achieve the impossible. For if you dream it, you can achieve it.

No Excuses

“Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life; you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the previous choice you’ve made and start making new choices to change your life.”

― Roy Bennett

         It’s so easy to complain about the things going wrong in your life and to continually make excuses about why you haven’t done anything about it. But at some point, you will have to stop making excuses and start making different choices in order to change your life. And know that change won’t happen overnight, but at any time you can choose to stop walking in circles and start moving forward. So, choose today to make a different choice and change your narrative.

Stand Tall

“Even after the stormiest weather, a true warrior will still reflect the brilliant rays of the magnificent sun through both his or her eyes. You may get hit by sudden lighting or take severe beatings from the cruel wind, but you will always get back up and stand strong on your feet again, soak in the sunlight, and be prepared to get hit by even the most merciless hail – time and time again.”

― Suzy Kassem

         Stay strong and resilient no matter how stormy the night. If you get knocked down, it’s okay so long as you get back up to face another day. For life is about weathering its many storms to emerge on the other side to see the Sun rise…and to experience renewed hope.

It’s Never Too Late

“It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn’t depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn’t depend on how long you’ve held on to the old view.

When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn’t matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades.

The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn’t see before.

Its never too late to take a moment to look.”

― Sharon Salzberg

         It’s never too late to make a change in your life. It’s never too late to change the channel from a rerun to a new show. It’s never too late to break free from the chains of your past. For at any moment, you have the ability to wake up, change your perspective, and decide that this isn’t how your story will end.

Leave Your Comfort Zone

“Step out of your comfort zone. Comfort zones, where your unrealized dreams are buried, are the enemies of achievement. Leadership begins when you step outside your comfort zone.”

― Roy T. Bennett

         Life is about taking chances and trying new things. It isn’t about playing it safe and staying in your comfort zone. For you will never know what you’re capable of or the mountains you can climb until you challenge yourself to lose sight of the shore.

Be Giving

“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.”

― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

         Life is truly about what you give, not what you get. It’s about building relationships and sharing love with those around us. It’s about helping others without expecting anything in return. Most importantly, it’s about learning that some of your happiest moments stem from unselfishly giving of yourself in service of others.

The Long Road

“There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.”

– Josiah Gilbert Holland

           Nothing that’s worth anything in this life comes easy or happens overnight. We’ve all heard that saying so many times that I think we forget how true those words are. We so often look for change to happen quickly or tomorrow, but that isn’t reality. Reality is that the really important things in life you must work hard for, you must nurture, and let it grow over time into the rose garden you’ve dreamed about. So, at the end of the day, work hard, be patient, and most importantly stay true to your path because it will truly be worth it in the end.