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Motivational

Motivational thoughts
When life gets you down, take action.

Motivational Thoughts

If you are feeling like you are stuck in a rut or that life doesn’t offer you any real surprises on your journey, you need some motivational thoughts to inspire you.  You can choose to do things that will allow you to feel a sense of wonder again and help you get a little more enjoyment in your life.

Some thoughts to start with

  1. Make a list of six things you could do this evening.  Then roll a dice and let the fates decide your activity!
  2. Find somebody else on the Internet with the same name as you, get in touch and try to make a new friend. There are a lot of people with the same name and a different story. See what happens.
  3. Visit Wikipedia and click the “Random Article” link on the left-hand side.  Get lost in the site for an hour, discovering worlds you never knew existed.  If the article talks about a place nearby, drive there.
  4. Decide to say “Yes!” to everything for a month, a week, or even just for a day.  See what doors open for you!
  5. Open an atlas, close your eyes, and randomly stab your finger anywhere on the page.  Decide to go there for your next vacation. Or at least spend a half hour learning all you can about that region of the world.
  6. Join an internet dating site, and remember what it feels like to flirt a little! If you are already happy in your relationship, do something spontaneous together and remember why you love each other.
  7. Lookup and hook up with old friends from school or somewhere in your past. That may spark some motivational thoughts that could reenergize your life and reality. Those who knew you in the past remind you of things you haven’t thought about in a long time, and some of these things will help you.
  8. Buy an item of food from the supermarket you would never usually purchase.  Indulge! Change! Be different, and that may start to get you out of your rut.

Some more Motivational thoughts for your day

  1.  Send a random “Hello!” text message to the person with the cell number one digit up and down from you.
  2.  Get to know our neighbors. We live in a society that is so afraid that they keep to themselves. Meet some of the great people right in your living space.

  3. Decide to “play” today.  Go to the seaside, enjoy a little bowling, play a board game with family, go outside, enjoy a walk, move!!

  4. Be mischievous.  Play a prank, and don’t worry about getting caught! There are many jokes that you can do tastefully and respectfully. Be sure that the person you are pranking or joking with is acceptable to that kind of interaction.

  5. Enjoy a leisurely meal with your loved ones…..share the preparation of the meal…..enjoy the time together. Celebrate your loved ones by creating a family journal of photos,

  6. Celebrate your loved ones by creating a family journal of photos, notes, and special memories.

  7. Spend time walking in an inspiring natural location with a friend you haven’t seen for a while.  Enjoy conversing with your friend – listen to their insights and share some of yours.

  8. Go for a 20-minute power walk to clear your mind, boost your circulation and improve your energy levels.

  9. Buy 12 life-enhancing books and read one a month.

  10. Try a completely new activity, something you haven’t done before, and enjoy the adventure of learning something new.

  11. Sit under a tree for an hour or three and do nothing.  Listen to the sound of nature’s voice.  Enjoy the stillness of being in the moment

  12. Do something nice for someone you don’t know and do it anonymously.  You feel good factor will soar as a result of our kindness.

  13. Join a dance class. Go wild, have fun and enjoy the freedom of moving to the music.  Try a local five rhythms class if you prefer spiritual over disco or salsa.

  14. Spend a night stargazing.  You cannot fail to be awe-inspired by the magical, vast universe that is out there.

  15. Rekindle old friendships…spend a day catching up and enjoying the company of old friends

  16. Go out to the nearest city to make one new friend.  Strike up random conversations, visit coffee shops and libraries, and see where the day takes you.

Bonus Motivational thoughts

  1. Be creative: take a pottery class: learn how to paint with oils: try basket weaving. Do something creative that allows you to connect with the natural power within us all.

  2. Do something spontaneous and for no reason at all, just for the sake of improving your motivational thoughts. There doesn’t have to be a reason behind everything you do.

  3. visit a nearby comedy club and enjoy some always enjoyable laughter.

  4. Anything else you can think of that will spice up your existence and allow you to stay out of a rut. Change is the key to motivational thoughts.

Take a moment and give these inspirational thoughts some consideration today. You don’t have to try them all, but doing just one will allow you to add some excitement back into your life.  Motivational thoughts will indeed lead to motivational actions.

Quotes For a Happy Friday

Quotes for a Happy Friday
Have a Happy Day!

Quotes for a happy Friday. One of the great things about life is that it always shows you situations that challenge you and force you to react.  Quite possibly for you, it is the first time that you have experienced this particular emotion or activity.  The best thing is that almost without exception, someone, somewhere in the history of mankind has had a similar experience and felt exactly how you felt about it.   Even better many of these people wrote their experiences down for you and memorialized their thoughts for eternity, or at least for as long as people have been able to  read.   I wanted to include some inspirational quotes that might help you get through a Friday afternoon, or Saturday, or Sunday or whatever day you choose to read this on.  I am putting them all on here just for you, so enjoy them!

Quotes for a Happy Friday part 1

A ship is safe in harbor…..But that’s not what ships were built for.  – William Shed

There is nothing either good or bad…..But thinking makes it so.– William Shakespeare

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.  The mind is everything.  What we think, we become.  – Buddha

The cave you most fear to enter contains the greatest treasure. – Joseph Campbell

Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth. – Anonymous

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.  If you can dream it, you can become it. – William A Ward

Life is without meaning.  You bring the meaning to it.  The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be.  Being alive is the meaning. – Joseph Campbell

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.  – Napoleon Hill

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.  -George Bernard Shaw

Quotes for a Happy Friday part 2

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity.  The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, “here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.“- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are what we think.  All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.  – Buddha

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present.  That’s where the fun is. – Donald Drumpf

 

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. – Jimmy Dean

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. – Rumi

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. – John Ruskin

Men are born to succeed, not to fail. – Henry David Thoreau

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.  -Muhammad Ali

Happiness is not having what you want.  It is wanting what you have. – Unknown

Success is getting what you want.  Happiness is wanting what you get.– Dale Carnegie

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have. -Woody Allen

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.-Yogi Berra

Fortune favors the bold. – Virgil

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. – Marcus Aurelius

If you haven’t got charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. -Bob Hope

It is not length of life, but depth of life. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.  –Marcus Aurelius

Act as if it were impossible to fail.  -Dorothea Brande

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. – Napoleon Hill

Quotes for a Happy Friday Part 3

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.  -Maria Robinson

The future depends on what we do in the present. -Mahatma Gandhi

Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today. – James Dean

Attain to the place where no one and no thing can disturb you. -Lester Levenson

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.  – Helen Keller

In the hopes of reaching the moon, men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.- Albert Schweitzer

All the world’s a stage, and the men and women merely players.  They have their exits and their entrances: And one man in his time plays many parts.  – William Shakespeare

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you’re heading. -Lao Tzu

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. – Winston Churchill

“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.”   – Unknown

“My life is my message.”    – Gandhi

I hope these quotes for a happy Friday make your day great.

 

Words of Wisdom

 Improve Your Outlook with Words of Wisdom

words of wisdomOn this page you will find some quotes that I like, I like to think of them as Words of Wisdom, for myself and any who read them.  I am continually adding to them as I come across new ones that I feel are significant to my own experience, and gladly share them with you.  Hopefully I will provide you with some new quotes to like.  There are so many windows into the lives of those that have gone before us, they have experienced what we are experiencing now, know what we need to know and many of them have saved their quotes for us to enjoy and learn from.  I wanted to share some of the words which I have found helpful over time.   These Inspirational Quotes, I hope will inspire you to follow your dreams to whatever destiny is in front of you.


“Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time.  It must be a goal that is so appealing, so much in line with your spiritual core, that you can’t get it out of your mind.  If you do not get chills when you set a goal, you’re not setting big enough goals.”-Bob Proctor

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.  It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.  We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”-Albert Schweitzer

More Words of Wisdom

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.  It turns what we have into enough, and more.  It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.  It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.  Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”Melody Beattie

“The way to know life is to love many things.”  –Vincent Van Gogh

“Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon….must inevitably come to pass.” Paul J. Meyer

“If we are growing, we are constantly going to be out of our comfort zone.” John Maxwell

“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” Norman Vincent Peale

“If we will be quiet and ready enough,  we shall find compensation in every disappointment.” Henry David Thoreau

“When life gives you lemons, please, just don’t squirt them into other people’s eyes.” J. Andrew Helt

“I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly and acutely miserable, but through it all I still know that just to be alive is a grand thing.” Agatha Christie

Words of Wisdom

“It is better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.” Abraham Lincoln

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John Wooden

“Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles.  Your decision to be, have and do something out of the ordinary entails facing difficulties and challenges that are out of the ordinary as well.  Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.” -Brian Tracy

“People are just as happy as they make their minds up to be.” Abraham Lincoln

“Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it’s who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.”      -Anthony Robbins

abraham Lincoln

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” Abraham Lincoln

“Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding.  Hold this picture tenaciously.  Never permit it to fade.  Your mind will seek to develop the picture…. Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.” -Norman Vincent Peale

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.” Abraham Lincoln

“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend.” Abraham Lincoln

Dost thou love life? 
Then do not squander time, 
for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin

Even more words of Wisdom

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharal Nehru

Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.
Alexis

Our life’s a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently.
Palladas

The geat blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
Seneca
(7 B.C. – 65 A.D.)

Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
Thomas Fuller

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.
W. Humboldt

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure.
Kal Menninger

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
Hypocrites

After the game,
the king and the pawn go into the same box.

Italian Proverb

The acts of this life are the destiny of the next.
Eastern Proverb

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
La Bruyere

Life is like a library owned by the author.
In it are a few books which he wrote himself,
but most of them were written for him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

We make our fortunes, and we call them fate.
Earl of Beaconsfield

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
Elbert Hubbard

Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
Herman Melville

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
Plutarch

Life is variable.
Plautus


Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
George William Curtis

I made my life my monument.
Ben Johnson

The boundaries which divide life from death
are at best shadowy and vague.
Who shall say where one ends,
and the other begins?
Edgar Alan Poe

One way to get the most out of life is
to look upon it as an adventure.

William Feather

Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel mine and coming out with empty hands.
Japanese Proverb

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Rainer Maria Rilke

To live is like to love–all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler

One life – a little gleam of time between two eternities.
Thomas Carlyle

Life is a pure flame,
and we live by an invisible sun within us.

Sir Thomas Brown

As I grow to understand life less and less,
I learn to love it more and more.

Jules Renard


Thanks for Reading words of wisdom.