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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. James Allen

CHANGE BEGINS WITH CHOICE by Jim Rohn

Any day we wish; we can discipline ourselves to change it all. Any day we wish; we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge. Any day we wish; we can start a new activity. Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change. We can do it immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year.

We can also do nothing. We can pretend rather than perform. And if the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labor, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make. But while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause. As Shakespeare uniquely observed, “The fault is not in the stars, but in ourselves.”

We created our circumstances by our past choices. We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better choices beginning today. Those who are in search of the good life do not need more answers or more time to think things over to reach better conclusions. They need the truth. They need the whole truth. And they need nothing but the truth.

We cannot allow our errors in judgment, repeated every day, to lead us down the wrong path.

We must keep coming back to those basics that make the biggest difference in how our life works out. And then we must make the very choices that will bring life, happiness and joy into our daily lives.

And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make changes in their life – If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life – and it all begins with your very own power of choice.

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Motivation Self Help
Motivation self help — will you find it in a book, will you find it in a seminar, will you find it anywhere? Do you really know what motivation is?

Motivation is the mental power that gets you off the couch and makes you bust a move. Motivation is the power that arouses you to action towards your dream goal. Motivation self help is what you need to do if you find yourself sorely lacking in the motivation department.

Some people seem to be blessed with more motivation than they know what to do with. Others are so badly lacking that they resemble a member of the sloth family rather than the human family. If you look in the mirror and see a sloth, and don’t like what you see, you’ve come to the right place.

Motivation Some things you just don’t need self help to motivate yourself with. A normal person doesn’t need help to feed themselves. Usually you don’t need to be motivated to enjoy some pleasure in life.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek. – Mario Andretti

Motivation at a very low level is called a ‘drive’. The very lowest ‘drives’ are the ‘drives’ for food, shelter, and clothing.
•When you are hungry — you are motivated to eat.
•When you are naked & cold — you are motivated to find clothing.
•When faced with hostile nature — you are motivated to find shelter. Motivation Self help is interested in what drives you to your goal — toward success. Or perhaps just to get you off the couch!

Within or without
Humans are a very diverse bunch. And what motivates one person may not motivate another. However, there are two kinds two kinds of motivation:
•From the inside
•From the outside

Motivation from the inside is when people are driven to do something because it feels good, they think it is important, or that it is morally significant. Motivation self help finds its home here on the inside.

Motivation from the outside is when people are driven to do something because of incentives that come from others – good grades, money, a vacation, a prize and so on.

Motivations / Drives

Steven Reiss, Ph.D. has come up with a list of 16 drives that seem to be common to most people. They are:
•CURIOSITY: A thirst for knowledge. —–
•ACCEPTANCE: Coping with criticism. —–
•ORDER: Getting things in place. —–
•PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: Physical fitness is very Important. —–
•HONOR: Being a highly principled and loyal person. —–
•POWER: Seeking leadership roles. —–
•INDEPENDENCE: Self-reliance is essential to happiness. —–
•SOCIAL CONTACT: I am a fun-loving person. —–
•FAMILY: My children come first. —–
•STATUS: Significance through ownership. —–
•IDEALISM: Being very concerned with social causes. —–
•VENGEANCE: Get back at those who insult or offend. —–
•ROMANCE: Spending a lot of time pursuing or having sex. —–
•EATING: Eating and fantasizing about food. —–
•SAVING: Keeping things. —–
•TRANQUILITY: Peace and calm before anything else. —–

But what do you do when none of these things move you? What if you are stuck in a rut? How do you get going?

Motivation, or a lack of it, exists totally in your mind it is the result of your thoughts and nothing else. To the results you experience from a lack of motivation you absolutely must change your thoughts. The fastest and most effective way to change your thoughts is by using affirmations. Affirmations combined with brainwave entrainment —

Entrainment will put your mind into a receptive state and affirmations will inject highly motivating thoughts into your subconscious mind. The result will be motivation from the inside out. Do you want real motivation? Do you want your life back again?

Take the plunge — try affirmations with entrainment.
Enjoy radical success by finding unending motivation.

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Finding your purpose in life may rest in that one question: What do you need — not what do you want, but what do you need? Your needs are quite powerful and they may hold the key to helping you discover your purpose. There is a difference between need and want. To need is to require, to want is to desire something greatly. Needs are stronger than wants. Many people confuse the two. Needs involve things that are required to actually help you live, but they also involve things that are required to help you live well. Psychologist Abraham Maslow identified several levels of needs in every human, including basic needs such as air, water, safety, love, and esteem, higher-level intellectual needs, and finally, the need for self-actualization or self-fulfillment. So, what do you really need in your life? Do you need happiness? Do you need passion? Do you need love? Do you need caffeine?

“If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I want to warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy the rest of your life.” — Abraham Maslow

Stop reading for a moment and make two lists — one list should be the things you need to actually survive, and the other list should involve things you need to live in true self. Do not include wants. Make your list now. Survival and True Self Was that a hard task? Look at your list and see if there are any “wants” listed? Can you tell the difference? If you have listed things like a new car, a luxurious home, a supercomputer, you are listing “wants” instead of needs. If your needs list for survival includes things like food, shelter, clothing, safety, and some money, you are on the right track. If your needs list for “true self” includes things like family, friends, passion, and intimacy, you are on the right track. What is the lowest common denominator in the list of “true self” needs? It is people. So, it can be said that a part of your needs for “true self” is an association with people. Take a moment and think about your list of needs for “true self.” After you review your list, look for the common denominators such as people, power, the need to be outdoors, the need to have creative access, or the need to feel needed. This will help you begin to define and refine your purpose. The Case of Gloria Gloria felt lost, absolutely lost. She felt alone, empty, and unfulfilled in her home life, her career, and in her heart. She knew that her life was not in sync with her purpose, but she did not know what her purpose really was. She had tried to find her purpose while in college. She majored in office administration and had become a very successful executive assistant. While the people she worked with loved how she did her job, she did not love her career. She sat down one weekend and tried to think about the things in her life that brought her joy. She listed her friends, her two cats, food, music, going to the movies, and reading. But she wondered how her purpose could be found in a hot dog and Gone With tnd. She began to list the things that she really needed in her life. Her list revealed that she needed to feel loved and give love, she needed to feel safe, both in terms of physical safety and in terms of monetary safety, and she listed that she needed her two pets. That was a very strange and unexpected thing for her to find on her list. She knew that she loved her pets and cared for them deeply, but she never dreamed that pets would appear on an honest list of basic “true self” needs. But there they were, larger than life. What does this mean, she thought? So, she began to explore further and realized that she not only loved her pets dearly, but that she had always loved others’ pets as well. She thought back across her life and realized that she had always taken in stray cats and dogs, and on occasion, she had volunteered to pet sit for friends going out of town.

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose, the whole aim and end of human existence.” — Aristotle

She made a decision to take a step. She went to the computer, created several flyers and some business cards, and decided that on Monday, she would begin to let people know that she was available to “pet sit” on a limited basis. She wondered if she would enjoy it as much as she had in the past. She knew that she had the skills, knowledge, and desire to do it, but she wondered if this new part-time job would bring her joy. She booked a few jobs and found that she was in love with being around animals and caring for them in their owner’s absence. She was giving love and feeling love. She began to book more sitting jobs in the early mornings, walks during lunch, and feeding in the evening. She could not believe how much elation this had brought to her life. Her friends could not believe it either and thought that she had gone overboard with the number of bookings. She knew that she had not. She knew that bigger things were on the horizon. She knew that in one month, she would quit her job and become a professional pet sitter. She had found her passion, her calling, and her joy. There it was written on a strange little list during a weekend of soul-searching. There it was, in the face of her two cats, her purpose.

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’

Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. — MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life… I think that what we’re really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive. – Joseph Campbell

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• You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight -Jim Rohn

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. -Jim Rohn

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Motivation Self Help
Motivation self help — will you find it in a book, will you find it in a seminar, will you find it anywhere? Do you really know what motivation is?

Motivation is the mental power that gets you off the couch and makes you bust a move. Motivation is the power that arouses you to action towards your dream goal. Motivation self help is what you need to do if you find yourself sorely lacking in the motivation department.

Some people seem to be blessed with more motivation than they know what to do with. Others are so badly lacking that they resemble a member of the sloth family rather than the human family. If you look in the mirror and see a sloth, and don’t like what you see, you’ve come to the right place.

Motivation Some things you just don’t need self help to motivate yourself with. A normal person doesn’t need help to feed themselves. Usually you don’t need to be motivated to enjoy some pleasure in life.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek. – Mario Andretti

Motivation at a very low level is called a ‘drive’. The very lowest ‘drives’ are the ‘drives’ for food, shelter, and clothing.
•When you are hungry — you are motivated to eat.
•When you are naked & cold — you are motivated to find clothing.
•When faced with hostile nature — you are motivated to find shelter. Motivation Self help is interested in what drives you to your goal — toward success. Or perhaps just to get you off the couch!

Within or without
Humans are a very diverse bunch. And what motivates one person may not motivate another. However, there are two kinds two kinds of motivation:
•From the inside
•From the outside

Motivation from the inside is when people are driven to do something because it feels good, they think it is important, or that it is morally significant. Motivation self help finds its home here on the inside.

Motivation from the outside is when people are driven to do something because of incentives that come from others – good grades, money, a vacation, a prize and so on.

Motivations / Drives

Steven Reiss, Ph.D. has come up with a list of 16 drives that seem to be common to most people. They are:
•CURIOSITY: A thirst for knowledge. —–
•ACCEPTANCE: Coping with criticism. —–
•ORDER: Getting things in place. —–
•PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: Physical fitness is very Important. —–
•HONOR: Being a highly principled and loyal person. —–
•POWER: Seeking leadership roles. —–
•INDEPENDENCE: Self-reliance is essential to happiness. —–
•SOCIAL CONTACT: I am a fun-loving person. —–
•FAMILY: My children come first. —–
•STATUS: Significance through ownership. —–
•IDEALISM: Being very concerned with social causes. —–
•VENGEANCE: Get back at those who insult or offend. —–
•ROMANCE: Spending a lot of time pursuing or having sex. —–
•EATING: Eating and fantasizing about food. —–
•SAVING: Keeping things. —–
•TRANQUILITY: Peace and calm before anything else. —–

But what do you do when none of these things move you? What if you are stuck in a rut? How do you get going?

Motivation, or a lack of it, exists totally in your mind it is the result of your thoughts and nothing else. To the results you experience from a lack of motivation you absolutely must change your thoughts. The fastest and most effective way to change your thoughts is by using affirmations. Affirmations combined with brainwave entrainment —

Entrainment will put your mind into a receptive state and affirmations will inject highly motivating thoughts into your subconscious mind. The result will be motivation from the inside out. Do you want real motivation? Do you want your life back again?

Take the plunge — try affirmations with entrainment.
Enjoy radical success by finding unending motivation.

http://www.bipolar4lifesupport.co

State of Mind
Your state of mind will determine your outcomes. What your life will look like is welded to the way you think. Change your mind by changing your thoughts. Change your thoughts by reprogramming your mind with affirmations.

You are the governor of your own personal universe – to govern well you need to understand a few things…

The first step in the study of success is to build a working foundation that is universal in it’s application. Before you can become skilled as a programmer of your mind …

You must discover and understand it’s principles –

Principles
Principles are facts that remain true regardless of when, where, how, why or who applies them..

For instance –if you throw a one month old baby off a 34 story building it will fall to it’s death. The baby’s innocence and vulnerability will not affect the law of gravity. Gravity is a principle. It does not respect any other law but it’s own – what goes up, must come down.

Maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – is essential to success. – Napoleon Hill

The principles that govern your mind operate the same way that the principles that govern chemistry, physics, and math operate. You can work with them or you can fight them.

Do you want to govern your personal state well? Learn the principles it operates on. Master them … change your state of mind…

… and you will have mastered your self, your destiny and your success.

Law of Mind
So do you know what the Law of Your Mind is? Do you know the basic, universal operating principle? Would you like to know what it is that governs your state of mind?

The answer is simple. It is already inside your head but perhaps the light has not been shined on it. You are going to discover that principle here and now.

It is a principle that is woven like a golden thread through all the world’s major religions…
Your mind works according to the
Law of Belief.
Actions
What you believe is reflected by your actions produced by the thoughts that run through your mind. Nothing more and nothing less.

Everything in your life – your experiences, conditions, and behaviours, are all produced by your mind which operates on thoughts… thoughts and nothing more.

The way you are, the way your life looks is directly related to what you think. Thought is the beginning of all action. You don’t do anything without a thought determining what it is you’re going to do..

You might not be aware of that thought … the subconscious does a lot for us without us having to pay attention … but subconscious thought is thought none-the-less.

Fill your mind with thoughts of agreement, health, peace, goodwill, wealth, generosity and wonderful things will start to happen in your life.

Fill your mind with greed, hatred, anger, revenge, spite, and un forgiveness, and your life will reflect exactly what you have been thinking about.

The best, fastest way to change your state of mind is through affirmations.