Posts tagged with "striving"
13. February 2019
Feb 13, 2019 - Are you keeping up, or stepping up? Are you striving for success based on what everyone else is doing? Are you focused on competing through trying to keep up with what competitors are doing instead of focusing on what they aren't doing? Are you so focused on comparing that you are not daring yourself enough to explore even greater possibilities? Getting out of your comfort zone and being willing to go where no-one else has gone is the mark of true excellence and genius.
21. May 2018
May 21, 2018 - Do you see it, believe it, feel it? Are you taking time each day to truly envision, believe in and feel what you are doing and striving to do in good, empowering ways? Do you take moments to simply appreciate what you already have and how this is enabling you to have even more? Do you allow yourself brief moments of celebration for what you have overcome and are no longer a challenge for you? Do you allow yourself to close your eyes and see with all your heart and soul that what...
07. May 2018
May 7, 2018 - Are you wavering? Is something you have been striving to achieve beginning to feel like it is not possible? Are you starting to second guess yourself in what you have been doing or are about to do? Are you losing confidence in your ability to proceed and succeed? Our passion feeds our faith in ourselves and in what we are doing. When you are passionate about something, it is a part of you so completely that you simply believe. Call it blind faith; it is confidence in its purest...
22. January 2018
Jan 22, 2018 - Are you fueling your confidence? How are you energizing your efforts in what you are trying to accomplish by what you have already accomplished? How are you recognizing your contributions and abilities to better engage them in replicating success? How are you reinforcing your efforts with knowledge of your effectiveness and others' achievements to empower your belief that you can reach your next pinnacle? How are you allowing what impassions you to drive what you do? Our passions...
11. December 2017
Dec 11, 2017 - Is it never enough? Are you striving to accomplish specific goals, and it seems no matter what you do, you cannot ever quite get there? Are you a high achiever that once you reach the next pinnacle, you find yourself feeling as though it still isn't quite enough and you must continually set the bar higher and make the challenge greater? In either case, perhaps what is actually happening is a disconnection between what you think you want versus what you truly want. Take an...
28. August 2017
Aug 28, 2017 - Are you hoping without accepting? Are you striving for a particular outcome, yet not accepting the role you must play in achieving it? Are you hopeful to realize a certain desire, yet not accepting insights and perspectives from others who are trying to help you? Are you closing yourself off to all other possibilities, because you have your heart set on a specific end result, and cannot accept anything else as an option? An open mind is a more resilient one. Being hopeful is a...
20. July 2015
July 20, 2015 - Are you psyching yourself out? Are you thinking of all of the things that could go wrong versus what could go right? Do you find yourself making excuses or rationalizing why now is not a good time to "go for it"? Are you questioning your next move or your ability to take the next necessary steps? As you are striving toward a goal and you begin stepping into the unknown, a wave of uncertainty can take over your thinking that can cause you to doubt where you are headed or hesitate...
15. June 2015
June 15, 2015 - Are you wishing or willing? Are you striving toward something that you are wishing would happen? If you are caught in a wishing mentality, then you are also doubting the full possibility that it could come true. Wishing leaves room for doubt, and with doubt comes an underlying need to know more in order to shift your thinking from any doubts to doing what can be done to bring what you desire into reality. Take an MM&I Moment to assess what is making this desire more of a...
25. May 2015
May 25, 2015 - Are you allowing success to flourish? Are you continuing to build off of current and previous successes? Are you effectively leveraging what has and is already working? If you are continually striving, but feel like you are barely surviving, accomplishing in some ways and then feeling as though you are taking two steps back in other ways, it may be time to take a look at how you are approaching your "next steps" after realizing a success, be it small or significant. Your ability...
19. January 2015
Jan 19, 2015 - Are you losing your nerve? Have you committed to achieve something and yet, as you have begun to pursue it, you are now beginning to lose your nerve? Are you starting to doubt or question your ability to achieve it, causing your hesitation? Has one obstacle or unexpected twist occurred after another, making you think it is a sign you should reconsider? Whenever you are striving towards something bigger than you have ever attempted before, it can be intimidating, but it doesn't...