We’ve all made mistakes. We’ve all done things that we’ve been ashamed of. Life is a learning experience, and mistakes are the most effective teachers.
Living successfully is not about avoiding mistakes, it is about learning from them. Making a mistake once is, in the long run, a blessing for what it teaches. Making the same mistake again and again — now that’s what we want to avoid.
To not learn from our mistakes is usually worse than to make them in the first place. And the learning starts with accepting responsibility for our errors. Laying the blame on others will serve no useful purpose.
From the moment we’re born, life is a learning and growing experience. Today we are more intelligent than we were yesterday. Today we are more mature than yesterday. Today we are more caring, more loving, more effective than ever before. We have grown and we continue to grow every day. The poor judgment we exercised yesterday is in the past, and we are the wiser for it.
Take comfort and delight in the new person we are always becoming. Go forward knowing that we are worthy and capable of every success.
If we’re weary, it may not be from what we’re doing. Our weariness could be caused by what we continue to put off doing.
Having an uncompleted task hanging over us, day after day, week after week, wears on us constantly. To free our self from that burden, go ahead and get it finished.
Instead of putting our energy into worry and avoidance and procrastination, put our energy into getting the job done. The way to have more energy is to make productive use of the energy we have.
This day will soon come to an end, no matter what we do. We have the choice of feeling satisfied with all we’ve accomplished, or disappointed that another day has passed without anything to show for it.
Choose to make good and valuable use of the time we now have. Decide to free our self from the burden of what needs to be done by actually getting it done.
Imagine the satisfaction we’ll feel, and imagine the new options we’ll have. Now get busy and enjoy making it happen.
Put our self on the line. Decide what we’re going to do, and then get busy right away with making it happen.
When we begin, we won’t know the details of everything that must be done. What we will know, though, is what the first step must be.
Go ahead and take that first step without delay. Once we’re moving, once we establish some momentum, we’ll begin to get a much better sense of what to do next.
Certainly it is important to make careful plans for what we intend to accomplish, but don’t let the planning stand in the way of doing. Be energized by the desire to get it done, and by anticipating the way we’ll feel when the accomplishment is completed.
Act from a place of desire and purpose, not from a place of confusion about exactly how it’s all going to happen. Prime the pump of accomplishment by taking action, and once we get started the successes will continue to flow.
Keep the goal in mind, stay connected to our purpose, and keep the actions coming. Our passion and desire will create an effective way to make it happen.
What we tell our self most frequently, we will believe. What we truly believe, we will incorporate into every aspect of our life.
It doesn’t matter if it is objectively true or not. What we continue to tell our self, day after day, becomes true for us and has a profound effect on our life.
Great power lives in the fact that we can choose what to tell our self, again and again, in the thousands of moments that make up each day. With focus and intention, we can upgrade our beliefs about our self.
We can upgrade our beliefs about what is possible for us. And by so doing, we will in fact expand our access to the very best of our possibilities.
We’ll go precisely as far as we believe we will go. So there’s every reason to believe the very best.
With what we tell our self, choose to sell our self, again and again, on our best possibilities. For when we consistently believe something to be true in our life, we will indeed make it true.
Achievement creates, and resentment destroys. Which kind of world would we prefer to live in — a world of achievement or a world of resentment?
It is easy to be resentful of someone who has accomplished more than us. But what purpose does that resentment serve?
Instead of giving in to resentment, we can transform its energy into something that will actually do we some good. We can transform it into positive inspiration and driving ambition.
A thousand days spent in resentment will just make us old and dejected. A thousand days spent on achievement will create a rich and fulfilling life.
We were born to achieve and we have a strong desire to achieve. We’re fully capable of following that desire, and of creating great and wonderful achievements for our world.
If we feel the urge to be resentful, stop. Think about it, think about our own best interest, and choose achievement instead.
What promise can we make to our self today? What promise can we make to our self, and keep?
We have made, and will continue to make, all sorts of commitments to others. If those commitments are to have any value, we must also be committed to our self.
It’s not the least bit selfish to be committed to our self. Because being our absolute best, is what enables us to be of service to others.
Right now, we know of many ways in which we can strengthen and improve our value to our self, and our value to life. Pick one of those ways, right now, and make a promise to our self to follow through.
No matter how far we’ve already come, there is always some new and fulfilling ground to cover. Choose a fresh, challenging path, and commit to making our way along it.
Make our self a promise. And give to all of life our own unique gift of achievement.
Do all we can, when we can, with what we have. Though it may sometimes seem that we’re not getting much accomplished, the only alternative is to get nothing accomplished.
To make progress we must be actively making an effort. With each effort, at the very least we gain experience, exposure, knowledge and competence.
To find what we’re looking for, we must be looking. To come across a great opportunity, we must be in motion.
By all means, go ahead and dream big, wonderful and meaningful dreams. Then let those dreams motivate us to get up and get busy making them real.
Circumstances may indeed push against us, but they cannot hold us back. Always, there is something we can do, some move we can make, some new approach we can follow.
Jump into life, get our self in motion, and make a positive difference every chance we get. Persist, keep our self moving, and we’ll absolutely get where we wish to go.