How to be self motivated and successful

Self motivation means that you are motivating yourself, however one of the challenges of self motivation is not letting it be taken away by other emotions that may get in the way.  When some other emotion becomes present it can push your self motivation away, and then you may find that finishing a project, or moving forward becomes difficult.  I always say to people that to be motivated they must have a strong why.  A reason to keep going when motivation starts to drop or another emotion gets in the way.  What ever motivates has to be strong enough to keep you moving forward not matter what happens. Read the rest of this entry

Self awareness and personal growth

Let me ask you a question, when you look at your life, are you happy with where you ? Looking back from the beginning of your life to where you are right now are you happy with your progress in life so far?  Do you think you are in a place where you want to be? Do you know how you got there?

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What an expression!

I’m sure you’ve heard of that expression, you should go the extra mile. It means you should do more than you would normally do to help someone, or perhaps to help yourself.

Going the extra mile is about pushing yourself that little bit more.  It can be in anything, going the extra mile is different for each person. What is the extra mile for me might be normal for you!

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It happened for a reason

Have you ever heard that expression? Or even used it yourself?

I know I have, many, many times over the last 5 years or so.

It happens for a reason

But what does it mean?

That’s a great question and one I would like to attempt to answer in this blog post

Trying to make sense of things

Perhaps the first reason we say that is because we are trying to make sense of things that have happened to us.  Since there is no rational explanation we decide “it happened for a reason”.  We might never know why but it makes us feel better that perhaps there is a plan for us out there and this is part of the plan.

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Small things become big things

As you may know it was my little girls communion the other day, and yes I have to blog about that.  However I wanted to write this blog post entitled small things become big things.  It’s inspired by a guy I saw preaching at a Christian church I visited on Sunday.

Now I am not overly religious.  I believe in God and spiritualism but have been turned away from the traditional church due to all the scandals etc.

This post is not about religion, per se, but more about some of the content of this guys sermon.

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Racism is alive and well on the streets of Dublin

Not been blogging that much as lots was going on, however I was in Dublin last weekend for the communion of my little girl.  That in itself is another story which I will tell!

However there I was walking thru the south inner city with my partner, when we passed a lad who was drinking beer

It was a dark day for Ireland

sitting on the pavement (sidewalk!) and he was mouthing off to people.  On our way back we passed him again, my partner was talking Spanish and he shouts, blah blah blah, and other nonsense words that I can’t spell!

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FEAR

Can you believe it?  I’m am writing about fear. What you may ask FEAR why FEAR, surely you don’t FEAR anything!

Don’t let fear stop you achieving in life. You can overcome fear

Well of course we we all fear something, even me!

Fear is something that can make us stop in our tracks, prevent us from moving forward. Stop us from achieving many great things.  Have you ever heard someone say I couldn’t move I was so afraid?

What ever fear is it takes over our body and does not let us go.  It’s a horrible feeling.
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There’s an old folks home near where I live in Barcelona, and I pass it a couple of times a week.  It kind of makes me sad, as I look into the building I see faces looking out at me. Vacant faces, empty faces, looking out. I wonder if they even see me or anything else.  Are they just thinking? Do they have regrets?

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