Success is not a single act or event but rather a long series of tiny steps taken to accomplish your goal… It doesn’t just occur when you are in the spotlight and everyone is watching to see you reach your goal. Success is created and achieved late at night when no one is watching and your motivation is lacking, but you still keep working because you know that you will someday reach that moment when…
Failure is like that strict teach you had in school. At the time you didn’t like her, but later in life, you appreciate all that you learned from her. Embrace the lessons on your way to enjoying your successes.
We are often our own worst critic but rarely are we our own greatest fan. Loving yourself and being proud of your accomplishments is not the same as being self-centered or conceded. We all need to feel good about who we are and what we have accomplished in order to reach our fullest potential and to be able to offer assitance to those around us who are facing a challenge.
Speak it, work for it and believe in it and you will someday live it! Small successes and small steps will result in accomplishing your big dreams! Just have faith and keep trying and the light will find you, even in your darkest moments! We are all the authors of our own story…choose to make it an epic story!
I know a young man who is a warrior. But he has been concealing his true heart in the costume of a court jester. That statement is the most honest, apt description of how he has grown into the sum of his parents. His father has the heart of a lion. He is strong and bold. When someone he holds dear is challenged he is the most fierce being on the face of the earth.…
Failure only occurs when you choose not to learn from an experience. There are valuable lessons to be learned from both good and bad experiences. And each lesson is preparing you for an event or a challenge that you will face later in your journey. You only fail when you refuse to recognize or accept a lesson and are forced to repeat it again rather than moving forward in your journey.
True success must benefit all areas of your life, if not, it is simply a tradeoff. Don’t settle for one-dimensional success. You deserve to create your own unique balance which allows you to enjoy fulfillment in all aspects of your life. Almost all of us need to work to support ourselves and our family. But being a slave to your job, no matter how high up the corporate ladder that allows you to climb, will never…
I’m a writer. I also suffer from bipolar disorder. It’s not easy. My depression eats me up alive. My mania drives me insane. It truly is a balancing act, one I can’t really control. Some medications worked for a while but so many only made things worse. Yet, each day, I try to make the best of it. I try to learn from every situation, using those lessons to create poems, articles, and stories. I…
My definition of success for my writing is knowing that my thoughts and words are being read. Having a single person read them gives them life. If I keep these words just to myself, then they are only my thoughts. But when another person reads the words, contemplates them, and shares them in a discussion with others, then the words begin a life of their own. At that point, these words have the ability…