7 Steps For Success

Write Down Your Goals

Discipline yourself to do what you know you need to do to be the very best in your field. Perhaps the best definition of self discipline is this:

"Self discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not."

It is easy to do something when you feel like it. It's when you don't feel like it and you force yourself to do it anyway that you move your life and career onto the fast track.

What decisions do you need to make today in order to start moving toward the top of your field?

Whatever it is, either to get in or get out, make a decision today and then get started. This single act alone can change the whole direction of your life.

Seven Steps to Success

There is a powerful seven step formula that you can use to set and achieve your goals for the rest of your life. Every single successful person uses this formula or some variation of this formula to achieve vastly more than the average person. And so can you. Here it is:
http://motivateus.com/stories/seven-steps-for-success.htm

Riddle of Life

Here’s a riddle: What do traffic jams, long lines and waiting for a vacation to start all have in common?

Aside from the painfully obvious fact that they’re completely unwelcome stressors in our lives, there’s another answer: They’re all situations where we could use a little extra patience.

In our defense, it’s not really surprising or fault-worthy if we don’t practice the virtue often.

In a digitally obsessed world, we’re used to having what we need immediately and right at our fingertips. Even further, we’re constantly busy. Between rushing from work, to home, to kids’ recitals or Zumba class, it’s no wonder we don’t really have patience. Our environment makes us think that we don’t have the time for it.

However, despite our aversion, research suggests that if we practiced patience, we’d be a whole lot better off. Here are five ways we can learn to cultivate more patience — and why we should want to.

The link to the rest of the article:  Hope it helps!

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/19/patience-tips_n_5843928.html

Spirituality

I do believe in angels and have known many people who see them with wings.  I have only seen them with human faces, young and old.

Often I wonder how they really are enjoying their life experience. 

As humans, we're not perfect.  We hurt others with unkind words or deeds.  Most of the time we are not even aware of what we are doing because we don't slow down long enough to live in the present moment and be with people fully.

Always wanted an angel to appear to me.  Maybe someday one will. Until then I will keep trying each day to do my best, as I know you will too.

Question: Have you ever seen or known a real angel?

Light of Life

The light is right there inside of you; you are the bright light you've been looking for.  Maybe you are a light of truth, or of hope or of faith, integrity - the list can go on and on.  I would venture to guess that you are one, two, three or more bright lights to many people.

If you keep those parts hidden you are depriving yourself and others of your greatness.

Shine a bit today, if you're not use to it.  Don't be afraid that you won't get it right.  You will.  Maybe not the first, second or third time, but I can guarantee you if you practice  - your beacon will twinkle.

Responsibility

When you take responsibility for your actions and do everything in your power to correct them, go grow, you learn and you move on.  Don't get stuck by holding on to pride or whatever it is that holds you back.

Learn to be that bigger person, if you are not already.  Your life becomes lighter when you do.

Friday is maybe your last day of work this week - reach out to someone over the weekend by phone or in person, not by email, text or social networks.  Enjoy conversing with a person you really know. 

Sight and Sound

By Miles Patrick Yohnke

Insight From Unexpected Places

I have to admit that the first time I saw her, I felt sorry for her. It was the summer of '92.

By her walk, you could tell she was a proud lady.

Her posture was like something found on the catwalks of a Milan fashion show. She was well-poised and sophistically dressed with coifed hair. She moved with a breezy pace along the streets of my recently moved to area of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

This nearly retired, petite lady was legally blind.

I would see her from afar over the course of more than two decades.

She moved so speedily that the moment to meet, let alone talk, never really presented itself.

But in the summer of '17 though, it did.

So what happens next? What will we learn?

Sight and Sound - Read the rest of the story:
http://motivateus.com/stories/miles-patrick-yohnke-sight-and-sound.htm

Have a wonderful day and take care!

Love and blessings,

Marlene

P.S.

Miles is celebrating his birthday today. Through his 50+ articles on our website, he has tried to engage and enlighten us to what life has been like in his world and so many other people.

Thank you Miles for always bringing your best to everything you do and believing in the goodness of people. Happy, happy birthday!

Fostering Growth

By Miles Patrick Yohnke

On the night of Tuesday, March 15th, 2016, she was there listening to her brother Case take some of his last breaths. His eyes fully open, though previously closed for all of that day, she didn't know when his time would come but she would be with him.

She was close to him during all of his life and was there, in Northern California where he resided, far away from her own home in Waterford, Michigan, for those tough last weeks, those last hardest moments.

Continue reading about how someone's live changed in a way they never imagined, and as a result how my life changed too.

Fostering Growth - The Rest Of The Story:
http://motivateus.com/stories/miles-patrick-yohnke-fostering-growth.htm