Motivation Spirit

by Trish Lay

Birth mothers and adoptive parents often do not like to hear what I have to say. I suppose hear what could happen to your child is frightening. I do not blame them. If I have seen some future experiences of mine, I would be scared too.
My first attempt at suicide was when I was 14 years. The other attempts came to my 20, when finally achieve the strength and courage to make life and death on the table. If the death was going to be elected; commit and end things. If life is elected; commit and never go to the option of death again. Life was elected and at night face my demons physically eye to eye and told them that no longer serves a purpose in my life and never allow me screaming me-me to take.
See, as an adopted internal pain is so deep and painful it is not surprising statistics are high for suicide and substance abuse among adopted.
With the system constantly protecting the biological mother, once more that are rejected to know our origin. Not to mention the media portrays us as self-absorbed people who are trying to create chaos in our parents, when everything that finding a relationship or understanding from where it began.
Why do you want society to keep constantly in the dark? Why win the secrets and lies along the integrity, forgiveness, understanding and compassion? Life is not fairy tail, nor does it have a happy ending, we all have to die someday and pending birth and death, in which we live. Why is like an adopted since they were introduced into this world, our lives and the way we live - is decided by us? "You have no right to file his birth," which translated means "you do not have a right to know who you are." "You can not find her mother, she is protected by law." Why everyone has a beginning and an end and only have a sorta thing, but it really does not begin with an ending that does not know very well because we are not so much to our medical information that could contain important to details about our genetics, but because our right to know where we come from is illegal - to continue living in the mysterious cloud of uncertainty.
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by Rick Osbourne

I never feel so strong and confident as when I’m helping kids to find their own strength and confidence. That’s my motivation with Operation Pull Your Own Weight.
In a very real sense it’s selfish. I’m doing it because I feel so good about myself when I’m doing it. The vibes of appreciation I receive when those kids get stronger and stronger, week after week, and more and more confident in their own natural abilities to set a goal and achieve it in small but relentlessly persistent increments of progress is unique in my life. Under these circumstances, I suddenly feel like Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Indiana Jones, Wyatt Earp, Muhammad Ali, Tiger Woods, and Elvis all combined in the eyes of these kids. I am unique in their lives.
If I Got This Kind of Lift From…

If I got the same kind of lift from climbing some corporate ladder, from running for public office, or from anything else, I’d be climbing a corporate ladder, running for public office, or doing something else that gives me the same amount of return on my investment of time and effort. But to date, nothing else compares.
There’s no thrill of victory like the one I experience when seeing a young boy or girl learning to say "Oh yes I can," in the face of a real challenge, tackling it with unreserved enthusiasm, giving it 110%, having learned, and knowing in their heart of hearts that if they relentlessly persist, they will inevitably cross that finish line.
In the words of the late Winston Churchill, "Never, never, never, never, never, give up!" Not quitting is one very important form of winning. It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog that counts.
The Moment The Catch Their First Glimpse…

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by Harold L Lowe

There is no failure gene in your DNA, so there is no need to worry about it. Just imagine, your mind is a goal-seeking, goal-achieving part of you, and it carries out those operations in a machine-like manner. You can never fail in your efforts to master the power of your mind, but you must persist.
Here is why. The portion of your mind that we are referring to here has as its sole responsibility seeking out and achieving the goals you direct it to seek out and achieve. That is all it does, day and night. It never rejects or counters any of your directions.
Please do not confuse the goal-seeking, goal-achieving area of your mind with the self image. This goal-seeking, goal-achieving area never argues whether your directions are for your good or not. It never moralizes your directives to it. It simply accepts your directions, achieves what you direct, and brings it into your physical world.
"If this is true," I hear you ask, "why am I getting so many unwanted things in my experience? Surely I did not direct my mind to bring this stuff to me." I would have to agree with you to a point. You probably did not consciously direct your goal-seeking, goal-achieving mind to bring a shortage of money, illness or other misfortunes into your life.
However, when was the last time you consciously gave ANY directive to your goal-seeking, goal-achieving mind? Do you ever remember doing it? When was the last time you paid conscious attention to what you are consistently thinking all day and all night? Have you ever done such analysis?
If you are like I was and like most people are, you probably have never paid much attention to what you are thinking on a daily basis over an extended period of time. Your mind is likely running on automatic pilot, with the exception of the few times you are shaken into awareness to deal with some urgent matter.
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by Laura Interval

I received an email this morning from a dear friend about the horrors going on in Burma. The deadly Cyclone has already killed up to 100,000 Burmese, and has left tens of thousands more in imminent danger of death from hunger and disease. Although the world has responded with emergency supplies and aid, the Burmese military regime is blocking all efforts to get relief to the people. Burmese Buddhist monks, prominent and student leaders, and others, have issued a public appeal for the UN to stop waiting for permission from the Burmese military regime. This email was a plea to click on a link that sends a letter of appeal to the Chinese UN Ambassador to use their power to apply pressure to persuade the Burmese government to allow the UN to move in and immediately dispatch relief.
As I read more about the disaster, both natural and political, I found myself feeling overwhelmed, flat out helpless . . .not knowing where to begin. I began to feel a separation of my world and theirs; a sort of disconnect from the reality of the people of Burma. I began to feel small and helpless and fragile. How can I possibly help and how to begin…? I clicked on the petition… to try to feel like I’d done something effective with my mouse and moved on. But, I was left feeling like it wasn’t enough this time.
So, how then? How do we begin to help the world in crisis? How do we start to address the huge problems, the massive disasters that show themselves in the media everyday? How do we start to become helpful and effective without bringing the burdens and anger into our own daily lives?
And then, I remembered one of my favorite quotes:

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by Azmi Jahan

One of the things I learned throughout my college years is that you can decide who you want to be and no one can stop you. If you know how to apply the law of attraction to your life then life will go just as you want it.
In this materialistic world you can have anything your heart desires. If you just focus on what you want and throw away what you don’t want then your thoughts will manifest to reality.
Don’t think about what you don’t want. A lot of people doubt the law because the stuff they don’t want comes back to them and it’s only because they think about that. When I look back at my childhood, the DVD player, the bike, the basketball, it all came to me only because I imagined that I had it. The law of attraction is amazing and with it we can literally change our lives and open up a good path for a promising future.
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by David Panarese

Are you in the same old place? Are you looking to have a break out year? Looking to take charge of your life? Many people start off their Networking business with great hopes but no idea what it takes to make it successful. One must understand this simple but hard truth. We are where we are in life due to the way we think and the actions we take. If you are not in the place you want to be then we MUST change our thinking and actions. We must learn to develop daily successful habits that will set us apart, especially the area of fear.
Managing Fear
I don’t know of any area that might be more challenging for most of us. Highly successful people are always challenging themselves and operating out of their comfort zones. Your comfort zone got you where you are today, so if you want to expand where your at you will need to expand your comfort zone. When we try to overcome our fears by common sense and logic we usually experience limited success. Anytime the left brain (the logical side) and the right brain (the creative or imaginative side) try battle it out the right brain usually is the victor. How many times can we recall making something so big in our minds that we did anything to avoid approaching it. How about when we finally faced it? Did it turn out much easier than we expected? There is an old adage that says "action cures fear" and it is true. Action does cure fear, and the more you do something the easier and easier it gets. That is fine if we can get ourselves to that point, but that is exactly the problem- how do we get ourselves to take action? Now that question is not so easily answered, and once again I can easily write a book about this one point. Fear has many heads, it shows itself in many forms. See if you recognize any of these- procrastination, avoidance, lack of motivation, laziness, unorganized, perfectionism, not the right time, not enough knowledge, etc. These are all signs of fear, can you identify what you typically do? Anytime we try to expand ourself we increase the interaction between ourselves and others, and as we express our values and beliefs we open the door for others to reject these. So as we grow we are always going to experience feelings outside of our present comfort zone. The first thing one has to accept is that it goes with the territory, learn to embrace it.
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by Frank Mira

"The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action." Herbert Spencer
By far the biggest hindrance to your success will be inaction. We can come up with all sorts of excuses for not pulling the trigger. It doesn’t matter what comes out of our mouth. I want to lose weight, I want to start a business, I want to learn a language, I want to run a marathon. What are you going to do about? Fire up the computer of course!
The internet is a blessing and a curse. It provides us with so much information, that when we get an idea we can search and investigate all the information available, literally forever. We can analyze all the trends, review all the products, review all the reviews, and so on. Granted, the investigation process can be important and is technically be considered "action". But if all we do is read and study and learn, we have been caught in the whirlpool of analysis, trapped in the black hole of investigation, set adrift in the Bermuda Triangle doldrums, stuck spellbound by the magic…well, you get the idea. At some point you must commit to making the mistakes and experiencing the pain in getting to where you want to go. You must decide at some point, "am I only in love with the ‘image’ of being what I want to be?" or "Do I want to be it, or DO it?" The right answer is that you want to Do it. Really though, too many people are in love with the idea of being what they want to be…and then magic will happen. They’ll simply continue exploring that dream, forever.
There are five critical reasons to avoid Analysis Paralysis.
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by Juddie Passion

I have been amazed at the rate of success and failure between brothers, sisters, relations, schoolmates, peers and the like - Even at same circumstances, environments and events. There is always a landslide between them. Some succeed so much while some fail so much. Some remain at an average quota all year around, while some keep increasing and some falling.
Who are they?? You may ask me. They are those individuals who are or were able to legally do what they wanted and when the wanted it done, who were able to scale thru the hurdles of beginnings to the top of their careers, who were able to hold onto their careers and become the best until they reach the position of both financial, emotional, spiritual and relational freedom.
I then conducted a research into the lives of most successful men around town and these are my findings:
1. The Power Of I Can
I found out that all successful men started out by believing in the power of "I CAN" They believed that they will make it in their different businesses and kept faith. They did not give up when it seemed so dim; neither did they give up when they were faced with little or great failures. They believed that they did not have no other option but to hold on. They believed in their dreams and did not allow the environment to rob them of it. I know you have a dream, just like Martin Luther King Jr. keep dreaming bigger and bigger and bigger and believe in your dreams. Then on a fateful morning, your dreams will come to manifestation.
2. The Power Of Perseverance
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by Lazz Laszlo

Monday through Friday, Joe is a disciplined worker. He’s on the job bright and early, hits it hard all day, and never in a hurry to dart out the door at quitting time.
Joe is young, energetic; college educated, and enjoys his job and has, for the past 9 years. His health and stamina are excellent
Family life was good growing up, but Joe lives alone now, in a swank apartment in the right part of town and commutes back and forth to work in the latest piece of European speed-machine technology.
Always dressed in the latest Label offerings, Joe has a piece of gold wrapped around his wrist that gives him the time with a glance and catches the eyes of the ladies.
Breakfast is always at a trendy hot spot, lunch is sometimes business related, but always top-notch, and dinner is a nightly affair at the city’s best restaurants.
Joe has a great life and he spends his money so that everyone can see that he is doing well, but he’s not. Joe is flat broke, in fact, he’s past broke. Deep in debt and commitment, Joe is treading water in a lake full of alligators.
Why do people throw their money around? The answer is complicated.
The outcome is embarrassing when money is thrown around to give the illusion of having money. The higher you live, the more it costs to maintain the lifestyle and hold up the façade.
It’s even more embarrassing to give up the kind of life that you’re use to. If you buy your underwear at a specialty men’s boutique, going to the local discount department store just doesn’t feel right. More importantly, to you, you don’t want anyone to know that you wear underwear from a department store.
Five dollar coffee is more fun to buy than a fifty-cent cup. Face it, its fun to spend money. It’s a special feeling. It’s a feeling that Joe has become addicted to and like a junkie, he’s hooked with no intention of stopping.
Every day thousands and thousands of people are spending money to feel good about themselves. Some are quick to buy the latest and greatest item to hit the shelves or the showrooms, because they work hard and they tell themselves that they deserve it.
Wealth is built slowly, but it’s very hard and takes discipline not to give-in to the bombardment of advertisements telling you why you should buy, rent, lease, consume, share, indulge, pack a bag, or experience what they have to offer. You work hard and you owe it to yourself.
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by Paul Bauer

Over the years, many people have asked how to find more clarity and focus in their lives. When I’ve asked them what they mean by clarity, they answer:
"A clear sense of what I’m here to do, I’m not really excited about anything anymore and I want that feeling of passion or excitement back again (or to find it for the first time)".
I answer them by asking what’s bothering them first. (Because the very thing we can learn from most is the lesson that continues to come back to us.) What surprises us is that our passions get bogged down by the resistance to letting our problems go. In other words, we can get stuck in a pattern of trying to the "same old thing the same old way".
Our real lesson is to allow normal life situations to teach us and give us what we need. If we "fight the flow", we’re really fighting ourselves. But, when we honor the lesson, the energy inside of us opens up, (blossoms) and then we’re free again to create what we really want in life.
Some of you may say:
"But, Paul, this sounds a little too "New Agey" for me".
It depends on what you REALLY want in your life. If you want life to be simple and to be in flow (great results with less effort), this may be a good time to just let go of the "old way" and move forward…
Let’s look at today’s theme once again,
"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom"
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