You Choose Your Thoughts and Experience

"Thoughts are choices. The most accomplished people experience doubts every day, but they have learned how to choose a higher thought. Great actors experience huge performance anxiety, but they have learned how to choose a higher thought. Sports champions feel like quitting every day, but they too have learned how not to take these thoughts seriously. The same is true for successful artists, writers, teachers, physicians, and peacemakers. As you choose your thoughts, you choose your experience." 

-- Robert Holden

Do Everything You Could

"Remember, the greatest performers have a workman like mindset when it comes to preparation. They are gritty in their preparation, doing everything they could rather than just what they should."

-- Brian Levenson

Wonderful Stuff Within You

"No matter what degree of insecurity you are feeling, a part of you knows there is a lot of wonderful “stuff” within you just waiting to be let out and NOW is the perfect time for opening the door to the power and love within."

--  Susan Jeffers

Wholehearted Living

"Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough. It’s going to bed at night thinking, Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging."

-- Brene Brown

Your Wings Will Unfold

"In life, when something is really important for us and we feel the fear of emptiness, we have to have faith that when we take a step forward, despite our fear, our wings will unfold."

-- Mario Alonso Puig

Important of Self-Acceptance

"Equally important is self-acceptance. The more we practice self-acceptance, the easier it is to acknowledge our strengths, appreciate our successes, face up to challenges, be open to feedback, receive offers of help, and so on. Self-acceptance makes everything easier, whereas a lack of self-acceptance creates more struggle and disharmony and requires much more effort."

-- Robert Holden

You Have Power To Become More Resilient

"If resilience were an innate trait, the way eye color is, you would likely have inherited it from your great-grandparents. The fact that you didn’t is therefore evidence that resilience is not an innate trait; it is instead an acquired ability—like the ability to ride a bike or to speak a foreign language. This in turn means that you have it in your power to become more resilient. It will require effort on your part to do so, but the resilience you gain can result in a dramatic improvement in the quality of whatever life you find yourself living."

-- William B Irvine

Reframing Your Experiences

"Adjusting your perspective can at times require your thinking process to be challenged, particularly in difficult situations such as a project not playing out as you’d hoped, or project funding being pulled. This could seem like a failure. Or consider a new product or service you’ve been developing that just doesn’t achieve your desired results. Reframing these experiences so you don’t think of them as failures, but in fact as an important part of the learning process that will help you to progress and build tolerance for challenges and resilience in the future, is a positive approach to take. This will encourage you to push the boundaries of your abilities and venture into new experiences."

-- Gemma Leigh Roberts

Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway

"Whenever we take a chance and enter unfamiliar territory or put ourselves into the world in a new way, we experience fear. Very often this fear keeps us from moving ahead with our lives. The trick is to FEEL THE FEAR AND DO IT ANYWAY."

--  Susan Jeffers

When Creativity Matters

"People don’t do this kind of thing because they have all kinds of extra time and energy for it; they do this kind of thing because their creativity matters to them enough that they are willing to make all kinds of extra sacrifices for it. Unless you come from landed gentry, that’s what everyone does."

-- Elizabeth Gilbert