Motivation
This section contains clips, quotes, videos that will help motivate you to vibrate a positive and heartful existence, and help you change you and challenge you to create a better version of you at every moment.
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8 Profound Questions to Ask Yourself to Achieve Success in the Next Decade
What is the determining factor of success? What is the catalyst that lights a fire within us to push us in the right direction for achieving our goals? I often ponder these questions in search of ways to bottle up the ingredients for success. Yet, so often, the reason someone is successful is not only based on luck but because the person has the drive, focus, and determination to continue walking the road to achieving their goals. “The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the quality of the questions you are asking yourself”— Anthony Robbins from the book Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control…
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How to Define Happiness: The Tale of the Fisherman and the Businessman
The tale of the fisherman and the businessman is a classic story reminiscent of Aesop’s fable. The moral of this story reflects the idea of what success looks like for each of us. Success, happiness, and contentment could be the simplicity that life already offers. A businessman once sat by the beach in a small village. As he sat, he saw a fisherman rowing a small boat towards the shore, having caught quite a few big fish. The businessman was impressed and asked the fisherman, “How long does it take to catch so many fish?” The fisherman replied, “Oh, just a short while.” “Then why don’t you stay longer at…
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8 Lessons from A Reluctant Businessman: Yvon Chouinard and Patagonia’s Business Philosophy
I encountered Yvon Chouinard many years ago after his talk on business’s moral role in environmental sustainability and immediately bought his book “Let my people go surfing. The Education of a Reluctant Businessman.” “Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.” — Yvon Chouinard “How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.” — Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman The word ‘reluctant’…
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8 Ways to Manage Social Media (To Preserve Your State of Being)
Social media use is on the rise, especially among the young and impressionable. Therefore, we must set ground rules when using social media as it can negatively affect our state of being. However, responsible use of social media is possible. 1. Be Judicious. Do you let just anybody walk into your house with dirty shoes? Then why are you ingesting everyone’s moods, feelings, thoughts to enter your brain? It’s hard to maintain a grounded state when you have random people walking into your headspace. 2. Aim for Quality, Not Quantity. Follow people you admire and like only. Great people inspire you, give you great ideas, make you feel the…
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8 Essential Points from Li Ka-Shing’s Best Financial Advice
Li Ka-Shing’s incredible story is an inspiration. As a person who started life in poverty and eventually becoming one of the wealthiest businessmen in Asia, he is now a self-made billionaire. Li Ka-Shing imparts one of the best financial advice ever. This advice is so magnificently simple and effective everyone can learn from it. Here are eight essential points. 1. Divide Your Monthly Income Into Sets of Funds. No matter your monthly income, divide it strategically into five sets of funds: Living Expenses (30%) – “Live simply. Eat a basic breakfast. Eat a basic lunch. Eat a basic dinner. While you are young, you are still strong and adaptable-…
