What Did You Nurture

"Confidence, self-belief, self-esteem and tenacity are like an ecosystem, they all feed each other. When we practise or nurture one, it grows the others."

-- Trinny Woodall

Take Charge of Your Subconscious Mind

"The subconscious mind is where your beliefs, attitudes, thoughts, feelings, decisions, and choices are working away, automatically crafting your life. The key is to bring what is in your subconscious mind to the surface. By bringing these aspects of yourself into your own awareness, you’ll make them conscious, so you can take charge and direct them yourself."

-- Natalie Reid

What You Can Accomplish in Life

"Remember: The underlying belief through all of this is that you can handle whatever comes your way. If you internalize that belief, there's no end to what you can accomplish in your life."

-- Aziz Gazipura

Do It For The Right Reasons

"Reminding yourself of the positive reasons why you are working hard towards your goal will help keep you on course. Whether it is the clothes you can wear having lost weight or the decisions you will make once you become your own boss – thinking about this helps."

-- Shaa Wasmund

The Power of Positive Emotions

"Positive emotions have in fact been shown to help with stress recovery.  Research has shown that highly resilient people tend to display positive emotions, even when facing adversity or stress, and those with positive expectations – which is a view that your future looks positive, and you’ll fare better than is generally expected – have a lower risk of depressive symptoms and low mood when faced with adversity."

-- Gemma Leigh Roberts

Things We Worry About

"Things that never happen: 40%.

Things over and past, that can’t be changed: 30%.

Needless worries about our health: 12%.

Petty, miscellaneous worries: 10%.

Real legitimate worries: 8%

Which leaves 92 percent of all worry we do as useless."

-- Dr. Walter Cavert

Vision Your Today Self and Future Self

"Take a moment to visualize yourself in five years. First, visualize yourself if you stayed exactly where you are now, and continued doing the same things that you’ve always done.  Now visualize where you would be if you adopted the view that you can be constantly changing and growing. How different would these two people be? How much does the decision you make today impact your future?"

-- Sten Morgan

The Future Will Still Come

"When we think of a difficult thing to do, like attending graduate school or changing careers, we often just think of the immediate comfort that comes from not doing it. No, I won’t do it gives a little relief from the big gulp of work that school would be for three years. But, that is a big lie we tell ourselves —a lie that hides the future consequences of our choices. Yes, you avoid the work. That feels good at the moment. But in doing that, you have made another choice as well: to have a life you hate three years from now. We act as if the present is all there is; we forget that the future is going to come either way. Immediate relief from hard work is not the only consequence. By avoiding the immediate discomfort, you also sign up for the negative consequence residing within the future reality."

-- Henry Cloud

Re-Examine Your Determination

"In order to make the change and heal, you must prepare and be willing to make the actual decision. That sounds easy, right? “Of course I want to change,” you say. The decision has to be genuine; it’s not about merely saying the words. If you think you really want to change and it doesn’t happen, you will need to honestly examine your motivations, your convictions, and your determination."

-- Natalie Reid

You Must Write It Down

"Whatever really gets you going and lights a fire in your heart, you must write it down.  Find your reasons for the one thing that you would be doing if you had more courage and list at least five them on paper. Again, if you haven’t done it already, take a moment and write those reasons down right now."

-- Aziz Gazipura