“If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.” –Jim Rohn The usual is comfortable. The usual is familiar. The usual is common. The usual is mainstream. The usual is normal. And because the usual is all of these things, the usual is easy and it is […]
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” ― Mark Twain There will never be a time when fear has made its permanent exit. There will always be something new around the corner to give rise to fear and anxiety. This emotion, fear, is like any other emotion: it comes […]
“The beginning stages of anything are the hardest and it’s where most people quit. The beginning is when you find out those 5 simple steps are actually built out of 50 other miniature steps. It’s where you realize just how much work, time and energy it’s going to take.” — Pariss Athena Everyone starts at […]
“Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” –Dwayne Johnson A friend made the jest about quitting her day job to work on a particularly challenging movement skill. It’s a nice consideration, being able to drop everything to work on that one thing you want to […]
“The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” Dreams, goals, and resolutions. You set off on a path to accomplish something with the best of intentions. And somewhere along the way, you falter. Sometimes, you are very close to achieving your goal before you quit. […]
“Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free You’ve had those moments, getting into the car and carefully making your way to the highway only to find yourself arriving at your destination with the […]
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life–think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” –Swami Vivekananda Have you worked on a project […]
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone In the first Harry Potter book, Harry discovers a mirror that displays his deepest desires. He ends up spending a good deal of time in front of it, staring, wishing, hoping, dreaming, until the […]
“Run. Because zombies will eat the untrained ones first!” –Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide What’s the first rule of surviving the zombie apocalypse? Cardio. There are so many jokes and memes made about running … almost as many as there are runners, almost as many as there are studies that show the benefits of running, almost […]
“… a modern problem is a question which has just arisen and whose answer lies in the future.” — Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul I recently attended a holiday gathering where we all sat in a circle at one point and were asked to discuss our goals for the new year. […]