Filed under: Igniting Our Will | Tags: I can, inspiring tales, living life, motivational articles, self-motivation, we can
Your statements hold such great importance in your lives. The speech you make, the sentences you utter in the course of a day so much reflects your thinking. Wise people have said, always think before you speak because of simple reason that your words make your personality. Using affirmative sentences in a confident manner changes a lot about your underlying belief. Imagine starting your speech with ‘I Can’ on a regular basis and witness the change. Although small, but these changes bring major positive effects in one’s life. While you speak think of yourself as an accomplisher and as someone who has dreams and then speak words.
Procrastination is a problem, a real big problem. Procrastination delays movement and causes impediment. If you have faith and good speech and still you are not able to make any move then blame it on procrastination factor. Take a step forward and don’t look back. And even if you look back it should be for the purpose of reflecting upon how things have gone and what you could have done to make journey more fruitful. Actions must take place or else you will keep staring at opportunities gone by. Nobody likes to miss his moments and take actions and move ahead.
Don’t fear taking risks. A risk taker goes a long way in deciding one’s fate. Risk and reward run together. But before taking risks, think about all the factors involved and try to master your fears. That is the key to gain confidence and proclaim proudly, Yes, I Can.
Filed under: Igniting Our Will | Tags: inspiration for living, life without limitations, living wihtout limitations, magic of life, paths of life
Life is a tricky concept. To some, its definition is as simple as to life is for living and for some others, life is the greatest mystery. Both categories are right in their own way. But one thing common to both categories is opportunities offered by life at every juncture of our lives. Some may accept these opportunities gleefully and some others may dismiss it by complaining of noise. But opportunities are not meant to stay forever. One needs to grasp them as soon as possible or else they might slip away to some other waiting arms.
Having said that, life is full of different paths. Life is not about restrictions and limitations. If there are limitations then that definitely exists in your mind and not in life. Life in other words is all about endless possibilities and one is free to choose any path he wishes to. We keep coming across several such stories where people have gone beyond the perceived limitations and performed miracles.
So how to live a life without limitations? Well, start with your faith. One must have faith in a higher authority. Faith dos necessarily mean being religious. It just signifies one must be spiritual and engage in practices that make his spirit stronger. As you think so you become. So expand your thinking and imagine unconquered frontiers. No negativity in your thought process should be allowed. Soon, it will become your habit to think big and going whole hog for your dreams.
Filed under: Igniting Our Will | Tags: Being gracious, manners, personality tips
If you start judging the world with some perfect standards, you will disappoint yourself because the world will fail miserably on your tests. When someone tells you that you did a good job, appreciate the comment and say thank you. Do not start to ramble on how you failed to reach your goals and how unsatisfied you are with this current report.
When someone appreciates your performance or praises your attire, do not put yourself down. That is not being humble. Putting yourself down in turn sets you up as a superior person. It sounds like you are fishing for compliments. Even if you are not, the other person feels that you are putting him down because you are not appreciating his comments or thanking him for his kind gesture. You also come across as a person who is never satisfied in life. You are belittling the other person’s opinion.
Just be a gracious person in accepting thanks and appreciations. Be gracious in accepting your debt to others. Be gracious to people who helped you on your way. Be gracious to favors that others have shown. Be gracious when someone is remembering you. Be gracious in forgiving some oversights. After all it is only from your mistakes that you learn more than from your successes.
When you are gracious, others in your immediate environment also become gracious. All it takes is one person being gracious so as to make a difficult situation becoming easy and moving on smoothly.
Filed under: Igniting Our Will | Tags: human values, ideal living, Value of Integrity
The word ‘integrity’ must be one of the most used words in personal as well as professional sphere. You must have heard of this term from your parents, teachers and in your corporate life. This word traces its origin to Latin word ‘integer’ that means ‘whole’. Integrity is undoubtedly a very crucial word in our life simply because the meaning it conveys. It refers to completeness, totality and wholeness. It’s a complete word with no terms and conditions attached. So why are we talking about this word?
Well, just to put across the point that a strong human always possess this rare virtue called integrity. It’s almost like you are in sync with your deepest core. You are truthful and aligned with who you are. Its not one-off condition or event. Its ongoing process and a quality that must be retained at all cost. Integrity indicates the need of speaking what you know to be truth. Truth may often cause conflict what then every good thing comes at a price. Acting as per your personal values is great achievement. Like all other achievements, attaining integrity demands hard work and persistence but few things are worth striving for despite all the hardships involved.
Let me quote something by Byron Katie- “The voice within is what I’m married to. All marriage is a metaphor for that marriage. My lover is the place inside me where an honest yes and no come from. That’s my true partner. It’s always there. And to tell you yes when my integrity says no is to divorce that partner.” I hope that sums it up.
Filed under: Igniting Our Will | Tags: Not losing heart, self-belief, strength
One of the common factors of de-motivation that I have seen in people is failures and dejection. We tend to give so much importance to our failures that coming out of it seems difficult. Moving on is something that is uncommon in Indians. Somehow people tend to be in a state of inertia and they do not want to come out of their grief. Once they lose their heart, they do not want to build it back – be it in relationship, in career or even in families. It is true that accepting a death or a failure for a promotion or accepting failure in examinations is difficult to cope with. But one needs to get over that and move on.
Losing heart while you are still living on is almost equivalent to killing yourself. It is you who need to build the bridge between the sorrowful event that has passed and the new beginning that is awaiting you. It is you who has to walk through the bridge and reach the other end. Only people who have the courage to restart or begin from a new start succeed and live life in its totality.
Take a lover who has lost his girlfriend. Crying and being depressed for the lost love is natural but time needs to play its role. You cannot waste your life crying because this way you are abusing the relationship that you shared with your lover because the primary purpose of the relationship was to be happy and you are just not doing that.
Take a businessman for instance. He has suffered a huge loss but he cannot afford to lose his heart. He needs to have the strength and the determination to rebuild and earn money to compensate for his losses.
In life you cannot lose three things: your will, your heart and your determination. Without these three, there is no meaning to life.
Filed under: Igniting Our Will | Tags: planning, success, vision, Will Power
The importance of will power is greatly recognized by successful people. In fact, presence of strong will power is one of the most crucial cogs in the success wheel. It is required to get success in any endeavors, one has decided to undertake. Whether it’s quitting smoking or losing weight or achieving corporate excellence or touching academic brilliance, will power holds the key.
So how will you define the term will power? Well, the basic definition says, when you decide to use your ability into action through a definite vision. It combines your mind power with emotions. Will power can make or mar one’s planned success. There are few steps which need to be taken while applying will power. One must begin with goal setting. Goal setting should be followed by planning a course of action and lastly executing those plans. Execution part is quite difficult for many persons. But if one has done proper implementation on fist two parts then execution will create a hindrance. It definitely requires huge amount of efforts for going execution from planning.
One will be surprised by seeing the results of tremendous will power. It has that strength and effects. But one thing which must be taken care of is keeping control. One just not should push too hard. There must be reasonable balance while applying will power for achievement of your plans. One should also focus on making his environment conducive while setting objectives. Will power is a hard thing to maintain so focus on avoiding temptation because if one succumbs to his temptations, he will find himself at exactly the place where he started. So be the master of your own fate by going for will power and set plans.
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The famous motivator Dale Carnegie in one of his book said,
“Did you ever see an unhappy horse?
Did you ever see a bird that had the blues?
One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.” True words of wisdom. It gives us a subtle message. It implies that many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. Happiness is not something that is attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Let’s play the game of life with the aim of being happy and spreading happiness.
Playing The Game
Life is a game with a glorious prize,
If we can only play it right.
It is give and take, build and break,
And often it ends in a fight;
But he surely wins who honestly tries
(Regardless of wealth or fame),
He can never despair who plays it fair –
How are you playing the game?
Do you wilt and whine, if you fail to win
In the manner you think your due?
Do you sneer at the man in case that he can
And does, do better than you?
Do you take your rebuffs with a knowing grin?
Do you laugh tho’ you pull up lame?
Does your faith hold true when the whole world’s blue?
How are you playing the game?
Get into the thick of it – wade in, boys!
Whatever your cherished goal;
Brace up your will till your pulses thrill,
And you dare – to your very soul!
Do something more than make a noise;
Let your purpose leap into flame
As you plunge with a cry, “I shall do or die,”
Then you will be playing the game.
: -Author Unknown
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It’s so important to live in the present moment. We need to remind ourselves that this very moment is the only one we know we have for sure.
Breathe. Let go. Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. What we need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring us to this very moment. And this is the moment we can choose to make everything new. Right now.
Let’s relish a poem which emphasizes the need of enjoying the present moment.
A Motivational Poem – Moments in Life
There are moments in life when you miss someone
So much that you just want to pick them from
Your dreams and hug them for real!
When the door of happiness closes, another opens; but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don’t see the one, which has been opened for us.
Don’t go for looks; they can deceive.
Don’t go for wealth; even that fades away.
Go for someone who makes you smile, because it takes only a smile to
Make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile.
Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go;
Be what you want to be, because you have only one life
And one chance to do all the things you want to do.
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,
Enough trials to make you strong,
Enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy.
The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything;
They just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past;
you can’t go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling.
Live your life so at the end, you’re the one who is smiling and everyone
Around you are crying.
Don’t count the years-count the memories………..
: – By Author Unknown
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We humans tend to find comfort zone. It makes us feel comfortable and secured. We often forget to venture out of this comfort zone. And the cost we pay is, missing out on new experiments, new experiences of life. But the truth is, we can only grow if we are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when we try something new. It has been said that, “If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness”! How true! We must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
Let’s read out this wonderful poem depicting the need of getting out of our comfort zone.
My Comfort Zone
I used to have a comfort zone
Where I knew I wouldn’t fail.
The same four walls and busywork
Were really more like jail.
I longed so much to do the things I’d never done before,
But stayed inside my comfort zone and paced the same old floor.
I said it didn’t matter that I wasn’t doing much.
I said I didn’t care for things like commission checks and such.
I claimed to be so busy with the things inside the zone,
But deep inside I longed for something special of my own.
I couldn’t let my life go by just watching others win.
I held my breath; I stepped outside and let the change begin.
I took a step and with new strength I’d never felt before,
I kissed my comfort zone goodbye and closed and locked the door.
If you’re in a comfort zone,
Afraid to venture out,
Remember that all winners were at one time filled with doubt.
A step or two and words of praise can make your dreams come true.
Reach for your future with a smile;
Success is there for you!
: – By Author Unknown
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A famous proverb says,”The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success.” How true! One can never afford to sit on past laurels. Achieving success is relatively easier that maintaining it. At the same time, it’s also important to achieve success in the profession one loves. Then only one would be able to enjoy one’s own success. It has been rightly said that, “it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.” This statement truly drives home the point.
After all, the entire motive for becoming a success is to experience joy and self-satisfaction as one move towards his goals. Our own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. And that resolution has an inherent element of totally engaging ourselves towards excellence. One of the most important single ingredients in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. Being personable is a key element to accomplish the respect of others. It’s really important for one to be able to get along with as many different types of people as possible. By doing so one will find it much easier to get the support when one is attempting to lead others to the promise land
