You are Responsible for Controlling Your Thoughts
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You are Responsible for Controlling Your Thoughts

Your thoughts are your responsibility – anyone that tries to tell you otherwise is lying or has some sort of other agenda. Some of the most challenging aspects of the mind can be more clearly understood by simply breaking them down to their fundamentals. The simple fact is; your mind is only capable of changing…

3 Keys to Self Improvement
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3 Keys to Self Improvement

When Hard Work Doesn’t Seem to Pay Off The balance of effort, experience and natural talent is often underestimated in life. Sometimes we try our best to succeed but we still don’t see the results we desire in the places we want them. Whether that be starting out that new business and hoping it can…

The Importance of Self Worth
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The Importance of Self Worth

Words of inspiration at any stage of growth…. When we face difficulties we often hear words from others like, “Trust me, it’ll get better” or “Don’t worry, it’s not the end of the world”. At our time of confusion, we lack understanding about our purpose, which makes it almost impossible to take in the words…

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Push Through the Storms of Life

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” – Philippians 4:13 Life’s hardest moments often precede our greatest breakthroughs. When we feel like giving up, that’s precisely when our character is being forged. God doesn’t promise easy paths, but He promises to walk beside us through every storm in life. Your Action: Write…

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Spark Your Drive

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis Motivation isn’t a feeling we wait for—it’s a choice we make daily. Lewis reminds us that our capacity for growth and purpose never expires. Every morning presents fresh opportunities to align our actions with God’s calling on…

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Inspiring Quote: “You can do anything you set your mind to” – Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin’s quote emphasizes that the only limits are those we create in our minds. He encourages individuals to pursue their dreams fearlessly and prioritize positive behaviors that lead to growth. Success comes not from specific outcomes but from living in alignment with one’s passions and aspirations, ultimately inspiring others in the process.

This one is called ‘breathe…’

This one is called ‘breathe…’

When you’re sitting and pondering what the meaning of this life might be and you can’t quite figure it out, don’t fret, don’t worry, don’t doubt…just breathe… When your direction seems off track and you can’t seem to find the right path, don’t struggle, don’t fear, don’t panic…just breathe… When the world feels like it…

Trust in God Will Keep You Calm

Trust in God Will Keep You Calm

Start your week with an optimism and a calmness that is nested in God’s perfect plan you. Let the week that is coming continue to lead you in a direction that brings you closer to God. Whether you can see it or not, God is always at work, and he brings a hope for your…

Bring Light Wherever Life May Lead you

Bring Light Wherever Life May Lead you

Our Divine Calling to Shine We are called by God to bring light wherever we may go, whatever we should do. The world changes if we change, therefore we play some role in building an environment that is inclusive, empowering and loving. Understandably so, our role might seem quite small in the grand scheme of…

A Prayer for Hope

A Prayer for Hope

Dear God, I come to you today in this time of prayer to firstly thank you for the many gifts you have provided. To thank you for instilling within me a thoughtful mind, placing me around inspiring people and continually supporting me whilst I grow. As I continue through my day, I have one thing…

Positive Experiences – Mark Manson

Positive Experiences – Mark Manson

The Promise of Positive Thinking Positive thinking will drive you to places you never thought possible. Positive thinking about your potential, about other’s thoughts of you, and about the the potential for your current situation to turn around. Your thoughts create your reality, so why not create a positive reality? It seems simple right?…think positively…

Make Today Count
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Make Today Count

Make today count. Make it a day that pushes forward your hopes and dreams, but also keeps you intimately grateful for the things you already have. Where you are now is a starting point, and hopefully you feel yourself working within some sort of process that keeps you going and propels you in a positive…

The Doubt to Fuel the Fire

The Doubt to Fuel the Fire

When things are going well and you sense yourself gaining some positive momentum, there will always be those doubts that fill your mind. It’s just a given, you’ll be confronted with past mistakes, question your own self worth and worry about what others think from time-to-time. These thoughts will resurface whether we want them to…

God’s Work

God’s Work

What is the main aim of our daily lives, what should we be striving for, and how can we keep peace and patience within us as we work towards larger personal goals? One short and simple way is to always look to bring goodness to everything that you do. Whether it be within your team…

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Our Beliefs Become Our Destiny – Gandhi

Building momentum in a positive direction is key to leading a fulfilled life, and it’s the stumbling blocks on the road to this momentum that can make positive change seem more daunting and confronting than it actually is. Our starting point (where we are right now) is a summation of all the decisions we have…

When Negative Thoughts Resurface – Psychology Today

When Negative Thoughts Resurface – Psychology Today

Your thoughts always matter because they are what set the foundation for how you feel about yourself and others. Often we refer to it as our ‘self-talk’ and it can make us or break us. What’s important to understand is that we have full control over the way we think and exactly what we think…

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Forgiveness Of Others Is Self Love

It’s often difficult to break free from feelings that we hold towards certain people – with our friends, our family and other close relations. Feelings of resentment can build up if these feelings are suppressed over time and we can find it difficult to live our day to day life with the burdens we carry…

The Key To Getting Ahead Is Starting

The Key To Getting Ahead Is Starting

If you have all these grand ambitions and visions of yourself in the future, you must get them out. They are your purpose in life. If you never work on them and build them up for the world to see, nobody will ever see them. Only YOU are capable of making a unique mark on…

All Problems Have Solutions

All Problems Have Solutions

There are solutions that exist to all the problems that surround our life and sometimes we just need to think outside the box and look at these problems from a new perspective. Thinking outside the box means being creative in the way you approach things. Seeking a new perspective means giving up your old metrics…

Change Your Mindset, Change Your Day

Change Your Mindset, Change Your Day

The reality is, and you’ve probably heard this quote before; If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer For those that do not know, Wayne Dyer was an American self-help author and a motivational speaker. So, what was he trying to say when he shared this…

Feeling Behind On Your Goals?

Feeling Behind On Your Goals?

Do you ever get this anxious feeling that you’re behind or in some ways off track in life? Maybe your goals keep escaping you or they’re taking a long time and you get demotivated and disappointed with yourself. Then you look back to all the times you’ve failed or the things that haven’t worked out…

Don’t Conform, Be a Trailblazer

Don’t Conform, Be a Trailblazer

Seeing the world through your own lens is an inherent necessity – it’s a must. That’s if you want any sense of lasting fulfilment in life. Your lens defines your thoughts, from these thoughts you generate a perspective and it’s from this perspective of yourself and others that you develop a metric for validation. Your…

You Have To Be Willing To Expand Yourself

You Have To Be Willing To Expand Yourself

Michael Jordan, arguably the greatest basketball player of all time said, “Limits, just like fears, are often just an illusion.” What can we draw from this statement? It packs in a lot of messages and it also encourages us to develop our self awareness. What I believe Michael was trying to express is that we…

What If We Never Quit?

What If We Never Quit?

What if we never quit on the things that really mattered? What would it mean for who we are now or who we could be in the future? It would mean a stronger will power and a more decisive attitude. When we don’t quit it’s because we care about what we’re working towards and anything…

Spending Valentines Day Alone (Part 2)

Spending Valentines Day Alone (Part 2)

I made a post last year emphasising the importance of acceptance on a day such as today. Acceptance of the fact that you are where you need to be and the realisation that you having everything you need right now. Feelings of loneliness might be challenging to face, but they should empower you – not…

Everyone Has A Story

Everyone Has A Story

When you look around in society you notice many people, but how many of them do you actually tie no prejudice or assumptions to? It’s hard wired within us to make assumptions, but it can often be a limiting trait. Here’s how it works. You see a ferocious dog with extremely sharp teeth, is fear…

The Community’s Way Of Lifting Our Spirits

The Community’s Way Of Lifting Our Spirits

Sometimes there’s disappointments, letdowns or frustrations that don’t just affect us but that affect a large number of people. When the community share’s in a loss or a disappointment, there’s a shared dissatisfaction. This is both painful and uplifting. It’s an interesting fact; we must deal with our own feelings as well as worry about…

Always Be Brave Enough To Dream Smartly

Always Be Brave Enough To Dream Smartly

Our dreams are controlled by the limits we place on ourselves. We often let our limits suppress our capabilities and we can’t reach our full potential. A dream represents what we want most – what our ‘ideal’ scenario might be for the future. We can have multiple dreams at any one time. These can be…

The Pursuit For Positive Experience Is Actually A Negative Experience

The Pursuit For Positive Experience Is Actually A Negative Experience

A tricky statement, sometimes a bit confusing and convoluted but it’s actually quite true. What it means is this – the fact that we believe we always need more, want more and deserve more makes us unappreciative of who we are now. To ourselves we will never be enough because we’re not satisfied with our…

The Beauty Of Patience

The Beauty Of Patience

In a world where we can often get frustrated with what’s happening around us and discouraged when things don’t work out we must learn to be patient. When we try and rush a result just to get the reward it normally doesn’t pay off and in the rare cases where it does, the fulfilment we…