Motivation Monday: Get Living

We are alway getting ready to live,
but never living.
GET LIVING.

Motivation Monday: Quit Waiting for Everything to Be Perfect

You have everything you need right now.

Motivation Monday: Keys to Success

Today's Motivation Monday is a great video of positive affirmations and powerful images, set to one of my favorite songs.

Enjoy!

If you're tired of starting over, stop giving up.

Motivation Monday: The Battle

"You're in the midst of a war, a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and power of your true vision to create and contribute.  It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows, and has always known, that we are more than our environment, and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with imminent arrival."          

-Tony Robbins 

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Which side of the fight will you allow to win?

Muhammed Ali "Impossible is Nothing"

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."

-- Muhammad Ali

Motivation Monday: Where the Magic Happens

Hint: it's outside of your comfort zone.

What are you doing TODAY to step out of your comfort zone (and into where the magic happens)?

Motivation Monday: Gilbert Arenas- From Zero to Hero

Gilbert Arenas sat on the bench for the first 40 games of his career.
Instead of becoming bitter, he practiced and worked and was determined to prove everyone wrong.
He ended up starting the first game of the next season.

He wears the number zero on his jersey to remind him of what people once thought of him, to remind him to fight every day.

How often do we allow what other people think of us to color how we feel about ourselves?

"The only way your talent is going to ever prevail is if you believe in it.  So that's my message.  When no one believes, believe in yourself."

-Gilbert Arenas

Don't limit your challenges, challenge your limits.

Motivation Monday: How bad do you want it?

Today's Motivation Monday is an awesome video featuring Giavanni Ruffin, running back for East Carolina with a voice over by Eric Thomas, the Hip Hop Preacher.  It is guaranteed to get your motivational juices flowing this Monday morning.

How bad do you want it?

TED Talk Tuesday: Tony Robbins asks why we do what we do

Tony Robbins talks about the invisible forces that motivate our lives.

Tony Robbins believes we have six human needs:

     1.  Certainty

     2.  Variety

     3.  Significance

     4.  Connection and Love

     5.  You Must Grow

     6.  Contribute Beyond Ourselves

Once you uncover the target that's driving you, then you find out what's your map, what the belief systems are telling you how to get those needs.

Motivation Monday: Which Suffering Do You Choose?

Suffer the pain of discipline or suffer the pain of regret.

Motivation Monday: The Difference

Oh boy, do I need motivation this Monday! I'm jet lagged and starting training this morning super tired. Last night, my flight was delayed, the airline thought they lost my bags, and my car was over an hour late. Plus, I'm 6 months pregnant.


But that's why I love this quote. It's a good reminder that it's really not about all the things that happened to us and how much we complain about them. It's really about what we DO to turn things around.

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Happy Monday, everyone!

Motivation Monday: If "Plan A" Didn't Work

If "Plan A" didn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters!
Stay cool.

Motivation Monday: Three Simple Rules in Life

Three Simple Rules in Life

1.  If you do not GO after what you want, you'll never have it.
2.  If you do not ASK, the answer will always be NO.
3.  If you do not step forward, you'll always be in the same place.

Do the Crazy Thing

I so totally love this!

Source: Lululemon Blog

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Today, this blog hit a major milestone: 10,000 page views!  When I first started my blog, I wasn't even sure if it would get 100 views, much less TEN THOUSAND.  I am honored, humbled, and so absofreakinglutely amazed that so many of you have stopped by to get your daily dose of inspiration.  Thank you.  From the bottom of my heart.

It is Not the Critic Who Counts

Last week, I posted an incredible talk by Brené Brown on Shame.  In her talk, she recited what I believe is one of the most motivational quotes ever.  It's by President Theodore Roosevelt on the man in the arena.

I'm not one of those people who can just recite amazing quotes at will. Mostly because I just don't have that part of my brain that some people have that allows them to memorize long passages easily.  However, this quote inspires me to want to memorize it.  It's that powerful.

Image Source: The Quote Collective

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

—Theodore Roosevelt

Motivation Monday- 212: The Extra Degree

At 211 degrees, water is hot. 

At 212 degrees, it boils. 

And with boiling water comes steam. 

And steam can power a locomotive. 

One extra degree... makes all the difference.

And, the one extra degree of effort in business and in life... 

separates the good from the great!

Here's one of the best Simple Truths videos.  Hope it gets you fired up this Monday morning to turn up the heat!

Motivation Monday: Everything You Want is on the Other Side of Fear

Quote by George Addair

So what are you still doing on that side?

Motivation Monday: What's Stopping You?

Oh that's right.  Nothing.

Photo Source: 365Q

So why in the world aren't you doing it?