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April 1st, 2014
pt of the day
The height of your accomplishments
will equal the depth of your convictions.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic;
it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
All men dream, but not equally.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds,
wake in the day to find that it was vanity:
but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men,
for they may act on their dreams with open eyes,
to make them possible.
April 2nd, 2014
pt of the day
“Learning is a gift.
Even when pain is your teacher.”
“With everything that has happened to you,
you can either feel sorry for yourself
or treat what has happened as a gift.
Everything is either an opportunity to grow
or an obstacle to keep you from growing.
You get to choose.”
April 3, 2014
pt of the day
The greatest oak was once
a little nut who held its ground.
Perseverance is the hard work you do
after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
He conquers who endures.
March 4, 2014
pt of the day
"If I had to select one quality,
one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success,
whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination.
The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times
and get up off the floor saying. "Here comes number seventy-one!"
"Pay as little attention to discouragement as possible.
Plough ahead as a steamer does,
rough or smooth - rain or shine.
To carry your cargo and make your port is the point. "
April 5, 2014
pt of the day
Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
Determine what specific goal you want to achieve.
Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose,
the trenchant zeal of a crusader.
PIC: TEAM Fit Body's BIKINI CHAMP & BEAUTY Amethyst Lowe
April 6, 2014
pt of the day
“The most important key to achieving great success is
to decide upon your goal and launch,
get started, take action, move.”
“When obstacles arise,
you change your direction to reach your goal,
you do not change your decision to get there.”
April 7, 2014
pt of the day
Human beings can alter their lives
by altering their attitudes of mind.
Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future.
April 8, 2014
pt of the day
Ambition is the path to success.
Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
The height of your accomplishments
will equal the depth of your convictions.
PIC is ME ( Dawn Alison (bodybuilder & coach) at 2010 Canadian Nationals
April 9, 2014
pt of the day
“Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.” ~Unknown
We all do it or have done it at some point in our lives: We compare ourselves to others and gauge where we are based on what we observe them to be doing.
If this was simply an observation, that would be one thing. But in comparing ourselves to others, we often end up judging ourselves. There’s no one worse to judge!
If you have ever noticed, it doesn’t matter how many people are on your side, cheering you on. If you can’t get on your own side, you never get past “go.”
The thing about comparison is that there is never a win. How often do we compare ourselves with someone less fortunate than us and consider ourselves blessed? More often, we compare ourselves with someone who we perceive as being, having, or doing more.
And this just leaves us coming up short.
But our minds do want to quantify. Our minds want to rank and file and organize information. Our mind wants to know where we fit into the scheme of things. So we need to give it something to do.
So, instead of training it to stop comparing altogether, why not simply redirect the comparison to a past and a present self and keep the comparison within?
We are always becoming more. Who you are today is a result of the decisions you made yesterday. We are always in a state of creation. We decide and then we decide again, and the direction is always toward expansion. It is our human nature to expand.
So, when you catch yourself comparing yourself to another, stop for a moment and re-direct the thought. Instead of submitting to the temptation to compare yourself to someone else, ask yourself a few questions instead.
What are you doing today that you couldn’t have done five, three, or even one year ago? How have you stepped out in the last year that you might have found inconceivable before?
What new decisions have you made or what new actions have you taken that have resulted in you moving in a new direction in your life?
What are your wins this year, compared to last year at this time? How has your life improved? How haveyou improved? What have you done recently that you never thought you could do?
What negative behavior have you stopped engaging in, that you never thought you could quit? What positive behavior have you been engaging in that up until now, you have resisted?
How are you doing more of what you said you were going to do and shown up more consistently for your own success?
In other words, how have you continued to become a new and improved version of yourself?
That’s the stuff that counts. Comparing ourselves with someone else is an inaccurate and irrelevant measuring stick.
Think about the faulty logic. Take, for example, an introvert who feels energized after periods of solitude. What does she get by comparing herself to a gregarious, outgoing personality who gets bored by an hour alone with herself?
What kind of illogical conclusions can she come to by this comparison?
Take any one of our perpetual comparisons and question the logic. Most are completely irrational in their reasoning.
We all came in different. We all came in with certain intentions that through life experience, we have continued to hone. In fact, the only masterful creation we have to work with is ourselves.
So, why defame it?
Michelangelo said, “Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”
How well we do this is our measurement.
It doesn’t matter what anyone else is doing with their block of stone. The statue that they are liberating is one of their own intentions. But how well we are doing with our own block of stone is our business.
And we must tend to it with honor, care, compassion, and praise.
Because when we have allowed for more expression this year than we have in the last, and more importantly we recognize it, than we can stand taller as a result of the comparison instead of diminished by it.
April 10, 2014
pt of the day
The future depends on what we do in the present.
You are the residual result of all your past thoughts & actions....
YOU CREATE YOU...