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 

Your One Wild and Precious Life

"I have a vision of all these people courageously doing what they came here on this earth to do. I have a vision of starting a conversation that becomes a movement. To harness the courage we need to get on the right path, it pays to reflect on how short life really is and what we want to accomplish in the little time we have left. As poet Mary Oliver wrote: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”"

-- Greg McKeown

Give Yourselves The Power To Be

"In the same way, a series of things which would be possible for us if we used all our potential, are not because they are not considered sensible things to do from the image we have of ourselves. In other words, we can only be what we give ourselves the power to be."

-- Mario Alonso Puig

Personal Tragedy Into Personal Triumph

"Although setback stories can sadden and shame us, they can also be enormously uplifting. In them, we encounter ordinary people who have experienced setbacks vastly more challenging than any we are likely to experience, and who, instead of wallowing in self-pity, responded with courage and intelligence. They thereby transformed what could have been personal tragedy into personal triumph."

-- William B Irvine

The Importance of Persistence

"We’ve all heard about the importance of persistence. But I had misunderstood. Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently doing what’s not working."

-- Derek Sivers

Be Careful What You Chose To Think

"Thoughts create actions and results. Thoughts make you want to give up; thoughts make you want to keep going. Thoughts make things look hopeless; thoughts make things look better. The lesson here is: Be careful what you choose to think, because you will not go higher than your thoughts."

-- Robert Holden

The Key Component of Mental Agility

"Problem solving is a key component of mental agility, and there is a way to hone problem-solving ability. When facing challenges, rather than adopt the first viable response you consider, pause and take time to consider all viable options. You might get lucky and come up with a great solution immediately, but you might not. There could be an even better response, which unless you take the time to consider alternative options, and potentially garner feedback and suggestions from others, you’ll never know. As you practise thinking broadly rather than focusing on one possible response, you’ll learn the skills required to grasp new ideas quickly and push through complexity, which are both factors that support mental agility."

-- Gemma Leigh Roberts

Focus On The Right Details

"Because how you set your goals—the way you think about whatever it is you want to do, and how you will get there—is every bit as important. Success is more likely when you focus on the right details, in the right way."

-- Heidi Grant Halvorson

Learn How The Wind Works

"“Our conscious mind can be compared to the captain of a sailing boat, and our subconscious mind to the wind that fills the sails. Even if it is hard for him to admit it, the captain has to learn how the wind works (and to use it in his favour), or he wont get anywhere with his boat.”"

-- Mario Alonso Puig

Attention Is Like The Light

"Consciousness needs attention. It is like the eye that sees. Attention is like the light that shines so that the eye can see. Only when we pay attention to our inner self can we discover that which had remained covered over and reveal that which was veiled."

-- Mario Alonso Puig

Don't Be Half-hearted

"My friend back in the day claimed that he wanted to be a writer with all his heart, but it turns out he didn’t want to eat the shit sandwich that comes along with that pursuit. He loved writing, sure, but he didn’t love it enough to endure the ignominy of not getting the results he wanted, when he wanted them. He didn’t want to work so hard at anything unless he was guaranteed some measure of worldly success on his own terms. Which means, I think, that he only wanted to be a writer with half his heart. And yeah, soon enough, he quit. Which left me hungrily eyeballing his half-eaten shit sandwich, wanting to ask, “Are you gonna finish that?” Because that’s how much I loved the work: I would even eat somebody else’s shit sandwich if it meant that I got to spend more time writing."

-- Elizabeth Gilbert 

Identify What Makes You Tick

"Identifying what makes us tick is important, because it lays the groundwork for who we are, where we are going, how we are going to get there, and when. We are on a path that will take us to places we have never been before, and things we have not achieved before. We are on a path that will send us and drive us to wherever we want to go."

-- Gino Wickman

The Failure To Be True To Oneself

"Without self-knowledge there can be no authentic success, no authentic happiness, and no authentic living. If you do not know who you are, how can you know what success really is? Without self-knowledge you may end up chasing other people’s definitions of success, but not your own. The failure to be true to oneself, to be faithful to core values, and to listen to innate wisdom leaves even the most accomplished person feeling unsuccessful and as if something is missing."

-- Robert Holden

How Can You Make Things Better

"When it comes to imagining what your future at work could look like, take the lead from Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal, founder of SpaceX and CEO of Tesla. Ask yourself one simple question: ‘How can I make things better?’ Musk is a serial entrepreneur and innovator but he doesn’t believe in translating new ideas into reality just to be different. In fact, he questions whether this is innovation at all. Rather, Musk implores his team to make a difference, to create a service or product that is better and delivers more value to people, organizations or the planet. When you work on envisioning your future, start with what you can do to make things better."

-- Gemma Leigh Roberts

Passion the First Step to Achievement

"Your desire determines your destiny. Anyone who lives beyond an ordinary life has great desire. It's true in any field: weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire creates little heat. The stronger your fire, the greater the desire and the greater the potential."

--  John C. Maxwell

Great Way To Increase Joy

"Another great way to increase joy is to journal or read about joy. The research on the impact of gratitude journaling on our happiness is overwhelming. I worked with a basketball player who used to read an encouraging letter from his grandfather before every game.  Writing and reading about joy can often overwhelm the stress of a big event. It’s very hard to be grateful and stressed at the same time. When we tap into gratitude, we tap into joy, which allows us to tap into our play mind for performance."

-- Brian Levenson

Please Try To Relax

"That’s basically what we all do—all of us who spend our days making and doing interesting things for no particularly rational reason. As a creator, you can design any sort of jewelry that you like for the inside of other people’s minds (or simply for the inside of your own mind). You can make work that’s provocative, aggressive, sacred, edgy, traditional, earnest, devastating, entertaining, brutal, fanciful . . . but when all is said and done, it’s still just intracranial jewelry-making. It’s still just decoration. And that’s glorious. But it’s seriously not something that anybody needs to hurt themselves over, okay? So relax a bit, is what I’m saying. Please try to relax. Otherwise, what’s the point of having all these wonderful senses in the first place?"

-- Elizabeth Gilbert